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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 decapitated corpses of the guillotine victims were thrown in specially dug trenches and covered in quicklime to speed up the decomposition process. There were no markers. Among those reputed to have been buried here: [5] Louis XVI (21 January 1793); he and Marie Antoinette were reputedly the only victims buried in a coffin.
The majority of Marie Antoinette's and Louis XVII's biographers believe that the young prince was the biological son of Louis XVI, including Stefan Zweig and Antonia Fraser, who believe that Fersen and Marie Antoinette were indeed romantically involved.
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 ...
Louis XVIII, upon his death in 1824, was buried in the centre of the crypt, near the graves of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. The coffins of royal family members who died between 1815 and 1830 were also placed in the vaults.
From a Sotheby's auction of her furniture to a new show on PBS, 2023 is turning into quite a year for the legendary French queen.
She was buried in the Madeleine Cemetery with many other victims including Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Although her French estate went to the Tribunal de Paris , the jewels she had smuggled out of France to England were sold at an auction at Christie's in London in 1795.
As they say, a piece of jewelry has the power to tell many stories. This particular diamond necklace, which is being sold by Sotheby's this fall for an estimated $2.8 million, tells royal-related ...