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    The Basilica of Saint-Denis (French: Basilique royale de Saint-Denis, now formally known as the Basilique-cathédrale de Saint-Denis) is a large former...
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    Métropole du Grand Paris. Saint-Denis is home to the royal necropolis of the Basilica of Saint-Denis and was also the location of the associated abbey. The...
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    and basilica, around which grew up the French city of Saint-Denis, now a suburb of Paris. The medieval and modern French masculine given name Denis derives...
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    Seine-Saint-Denis (French pronunciation: [sɛn sɛ̃ d(ə)ni]) is a department of France located in the Grand Paris metropolis in the Île-de-France region...
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    Suger (redirect from Suger of Saint-Denis)
    reconstruction of the Basilica of Saint-Denis where he was abbot was instrumental in the creation of Gothic architecture. Suger was born into a family of minor...
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    of the portal of Basilica of Saint Denis Early Gothic style: Prophet's head, 1137-1140, originally in the Basilica of St. Denis Image of Biblical Wise...
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    the patron saint of Paris, Saint Denis of Paris, was beheaded by the Romans. His tomb became the site of the Basilica of Saint Denis, the traditional...
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    Rayonnant (category History of glass)
    dedication of Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, and had the east end of St. Paul's Cathedral remodelled in 1258 to resemble it. The Basilica of Saint-Denis, which...
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  • French Gothic stained glass windows (category History of glass)
    feet of the Virgin. (1140–1144) Windows of the Chapel of the Virgin at the Basilica of Saint-Denis. The Tree of Jesse window is on the right Detail of the...
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  • we have suffered of my son, the Duke of Anjou." He was buried in the Basilica of Saint-Denis while his heart was buried in the abbey of Val-de-Grâce. Died...
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    reinterred to Saint-Denis Basilica. Pope Boniface VIII proclaimed the canonization of Louis in 1297; he is the only French king to be declared a saint. Louis...
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  • treasure of the Basilica of Saint-Denis (also known as Basilique royale de Saint-Denis) until 1795, when it disappeared, stolen in the basilica and never...
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  • St Denis' Church, Morton, Nottinghamshire, England St Denis' Church, Otterham, Cornwall, England Basilica of Saint-Denis, Paris, France Saint Denis (disambiguation)...
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    in the Basilica of St Denis. He was succeeded by his son, Philip I of France, and Henry's queen Anne of Kiev ruled as regent. At the time of his death...
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    Clovis I (redirect from Clovis I of France)
    Clovis was laid to rest in the Abbey of St Genevieve in Paris. His remains were relocated to Saint Denis Basilica in the mid- to late 18th century. When...
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  • Treasury of Saint-Denis, kept at the Basilica of Saint-Denis in Paris until the French Revolution, was the main repository of the regalia of the Kingdom of France...
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    Fulrad (redirect from Saint Fulrad)
    Saint Fulrad (French: Fulrade; Latin: Fulradus; 710 – 16 July 784) was a French religious leader who was the Abbot of Saint-Denis. He was the counselor...
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    He was buried in a cadaver tomb in Saint Denis Basilica. Henry's death played a significant role in the decline of jousting as a sport, particularly in...
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    treasury of the Basilica of Saint-Denis near Paris, the traditional burial place of the Capetian dynasty. Only one of the 11 personal crowns of the Ancien...
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    buried in the abbey of Saint Denis Basilica, Paris, the first Frankish king to be buried there. Dagobert's interment at Saint-Denis established a precedent...
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    Clovis II (category Burials at the Basilica of Saint-Denis)
    Clovis "died insane." Clovis II was buried in Saint Denis Basilica, Paris. McConville 2018, p. 362. "Saint Bathilde". New Advent. Retrieved 8 January 2017...
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    at the Basilica of Saint-Denis. At the death of the Duchess of Montpensier in 1693, her fortune went to her direct and legal heir, the House of Orléans...
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    II became the sole king of West Francia, and the young king was buried in the royal mausoleum of the Basilica of Saint-Denis. Louis' death was incredibly...
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    the supervision of the royal governess Louise de Prie. Like his parents, he too died of measles and was buried in the Basilica of St Denis. His younger brother...
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    Rue des Martyrs (category Streets in the 9th arrondissement of Paris)
    century. He travelled on this road and died close to where the Basilica of Saint-Denis was founded subsequently. The Cirque Medrano (originally called...
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    is buried in the Basilica of Saint-Denis. Philip was succeeded by his son Louis X. The children of Philip IV of France and Joan I of Navarre were: Margaret...
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  • This is a list of abbots and grand priors of the Basilica of Saint-Denis. This list is drawn mostly from Félicie d'Ayzac, Histoire de Saint-Denys (Paris...
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    the storming of the Bastille. He was buried on 13 June in a simple ceremony at the Basilica of St Denis, a month before the storming of the Bastille....
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    by Abbot Suger (1081–1151). The old Basilica was the traditional burial place of Saint Denis, and of the Kings of France, and was also a very popular...
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    in the necropolis of French kings at the Basilica of Saint-Denis. For many revolutionary figures, Marie Antoinette was the symbol of what was wrong with...
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