Expiatory Chapel: Interior detail, sculpture: Louis XVI Called to Immortality, Sustained by an Angel

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Circa 1910

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Part of: Architectural Lantern Slides of France

Architecture Library, Hesburgh Libraries

A chapel dedicated to King Louis XVI and his Queen Marie Antoinette, although they are formally buried in the Basilica of St Denis. Fontaine's assistant Louis-Hippolyte Lebas oversaw the construction. The chapel was partly constructed on the grounds of the former Madeleine Cemetery where King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette had been buried after they had been guillotined. King Louis XVIII shared the 3 million livres expense of building the Chapelle expiatoire with the Duchess of Angoulême. Construction took ten years, and the chapel was inaugurated in 1826 in the presence of Charles X. White marble sculptures of the king and queen in ecstatic attitudes were made by François Joseph Bosio and Jean-Pierre Cortot.

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Creator: G. Massiot & cie
Date: Circa 1910
Publisher: Architecture Library, Hesburgh Libraries
Material Type: photographs
Conditions Governing Access: To view the physical lantern slide, please contact the Architecture Library to arrange an appointment
Related Location: Paris, Île-de-France, France: eighth arrondissement: 29 rue Pasquier

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Link to Finding Aid: https://curate.nd.edu/show/tm70ms38w3p; This digital collection may not include all items or all of the information available about the source collection. See the finding aid for more information.

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