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The Chapelle expiatoire ("Expiatory Chapel") [3] is a chapel located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France.The chapel was constructed on the grounds where King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette had been buried after they had been guillotined, and it is therefore dedicated to them as an expiation for that act.
The cemetery and its environs appear prominently in the Ubisoft's 2014 Assassin's Creed Unity video game, set in 1789–94, as the cemetery is being closed down and the bodies moved to the catacombs. The destruction of the church and removal of the cemetery at Les Innocents is the subject of Andrew Miller's Costa prize winning 2011 novel Pure. [11]
The area where Louis XVI and later (16 October 1793) Marie Antoinette were buried, in the cemetery of the Church of the Madeleine, is today the "Square Louis XVI" greenspace, containing the classically self-effacing Expiatory Chapel completed in 1826 during the reign of Louis' youngest brother Charles X. The crypt altar stands above the exact ...
The "bourreau" under Louis XVI Execution of Louis XVI Execution of Robespierre July 28, 1794; Sanson is figure # 4 Headstone of the Sanson family at Montmartre Cemetery: tomb of Charles-Henri Sanson, his son Henri Sanson, with his wife, Marie-Louise Damidot and grandson Henri-Clément Sanson, with his wife Virginie-Emilie Lefébure
In the 19th century, following the restoration of the monarchy, Louis XVIII had the remains of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette brought to St. Denis. The body of the Dauphin , who died of illness and neglect at the hands of his revolutionary captors, was buried in an unmarked grave in a Parisian churchyard near the Temple .
On 11 January 1815, Desclozeaux sold his house and the old cemetery to Louis XVIII. One of the first decisions of Louis XVIII , when he acceded to the throne of France at the time of the Bourbon Restoration , was to move the remains of his brother and sister-in-law, King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette , to the Basilica of St Denis , the ...
The statue of King Louis XVI was showered with confetti Sept. 10, 2004. It was announced that the statue, donated to the city in 1967, would be cleaned and repaired.
Louis XVI (Louis Auguste; French: [lwi sɛːz]; 23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. The son of Louis, Dauphin of France (son and heir-apparent of King Louis XV), and Maria Josepha of Saxony, Louis became the new Dauphin when his father died in 1765.