Appendix: Saint-Denis

La cathédrale royale de St-Denis

In keeping with their progressive public policy, the French revolutionaries desecrated the royal tombs at St-Denis in 1793. Being French, even these vicious official bastards couldn’t bring themselves to destroy most of the associated art-work,¹ but only the formerly sacred bones of the ancien régime. So, we were able to visit and to get a few pictures.

Our photographic record of the occasion is neither representative nor well-annotated. I’ll include just a few, without trying to caption them properly, much less to give an historical account. The Web contains several good image collections, well presented. Google “St-Denis,” if you’re moved to further study.

¹Apart, it seems from Hugues Capet’s tomb and a few others.