Chapelle expiatoire
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- Best time to go
- Year-round
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- $
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- limited
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- Open in maps
Set within a small garden near the Gare Saint-Lazare, this neoclassical chapel was built in the 1820s on the site of a cemetery where Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette were buried after their executions during the Revolution, before their remains were transferred to Saint-Denis. Commissioned by Louis XVIII in memory of his brother, it stands as a monument of royalist mourning. Inside, marble statues depict the king and queen, and the crypt marks the original burial place. The surrounding lawns cover the graves of other victims of the Terror.
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