Paris and environs, with routes from London to Paris : handbook for travellers . is successors were buried. The reconstructionof the Merovingian building was begun about 750 by Pejnn theShort (d. 768) and finished in the reign of Charlemagne. TheAbbot Stiger (1121-52) decided to build on a grander scale, dis-carding all but the crypt and a few columns of the former building was the first important edifice in which Gothicwindows were used, and may be considered as the deciding influenceand true starting-point in the development of Gothic and pointed arches al
Paris and environs, with routes from London to Paris : handbook for travellers . is successors were buried. The reconstructionof the Merovingian building was begun about 750 by Pejnn theShort (d. 768) and finished in the reign of Charlemagne. TheAbbot Stiger (1121-52) decided to build on a grander scale, dis-carding all but the crypt and a few columns of the former building was the first important edifice in which Gothicwindows were used, and may be considered as the deciding influenceand true starting-point in the development of Gothic and pointed arches alternate in the fagade, whereas in theother portions Gothic arches only occur. The choir, consecratedin 1144, is bordered with radiating chapels, a feature of the Ro-manesque style, and at the same time it exhibits the Gothicbuttress-system in an advanced stage of development. A tliorough Cathedral. ST-DENIS. 25. Route. 391 restoration, necessitated perhaps by the instability of the foun-dations, was undertaken in 1231 by the abbots Eudes Clement r f^ji-ntiHy gtem»aitefTN20«. itid Mtilhiru df \rndo/N(\ wliost; li*aiiiii^ to thr (iothie style was•>till more marked. \\\r npprr pari of thr choir, the nave, andthe IranNepts were entirely rebuilt. .Additional chaprls v/vrv M)2 Route 2-^. 8T-DENIS. CathnlraJ. erected later, probably in the 14th century. St. Louis (d. 1270)was the first to erect monuments to his ancestors in the choir, and itbecame the custom to raise a memorial to every king on his lionour was afterwards extended to princes and other illustriouspersons. TJider the Revolution the cathedral was sacked, and thetombs were desecrated (1792-93). The restorations effected byNapoleon I., Louis XYIII., and Louis Philippe were in bad taste;but under Napoleon ITL, who in 1858 entrusted the work of restora-tion to Viollet-le-DuCj it regained much of its ancient importance of the town dates from the foundation of its Ben-edictine abbey by Dag^obert
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