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Expiatory Chapel: Detail of outer entry gate on Rue Pasquier

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posted on 2017-06-30, 00:00 authored by G. Massiot & cie
There are two buildings separated by a courtyard which is surrounded by an enclosed cloister-like precinct, a peristyle, that isolates the chapel from the outside world. The building on Rue Pasquier is the entrance.\u000a\u000aA 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 Angoul\u00EAme. 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 Fran\u00E7ois Joseph Bosio and Jean-Pierre Cortot.

History

Alt Title

Chapelle expiatoire

Date Created

1910-01-01

Date Modified

2017-06-30

Spatial Coverage

Paris, Île-de-France, France: eighth arrondissement: 29 rue Pasquier +48.873611+2.322778 Paris

Temporal Coverage

before or circa 1910

Cultural Context

['Neoclassical', 'Nineteenth century']

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