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Le tombeau de Louis XI (1423-1483) : roi de 1461 à 1483.

Fin stratège, Louis XI mit fin à la guerre de Cent ans (traité de Picquigny, 29 août 1475), agrandit le royaume de France, restaura l’autorité royale en affaiblissant les puissances féodales.

Il fit édifier la collégiale de Clery-Saint-André dans laquelle il se fit inhumer.

Pour la première fois dans l’architecture funéraire, le mort n’est plus représenté en gisant mais en orant (priant).

La statue d'origine de Louis XI, en cuivre et bronze doré, représentait le roi en habits de chasseur, priant à genoux devant Notre Dame sur un coussin, servant de prie-dieu, aux couleurs des armes de France. Elle était l'œuvre de l'orfèvre Conrad de Cologne et du fondeur Laurent Wrine.

Le 2 avril 1562, le tombeau du roi fut détruit par les protestants après la prise de la ville d’Orléans par les armées du prince de Condé.

Au XIXe siècle, le sculpteur Beauvallet puis Barberon reconstituèrent une nouvelle sépulture qui figure depuis dans la nef de l'église.

En 1896, le docteur Duchâteau effectue l'inventaire du caveau royal et constate la présence de cinq morceaux de crâne.

La base d’un crâne scié et une mâchoire, attribués à Charlotte de Savoie. La seconde épouse de Louis XI, Charlotte de Savoie, fut inhumée auprès de son mari à Clery.

Une voûte crânienne sciée, une mâchoire et un fragment de la partie nasale attribués à Louis XI.

Le reste des ossements a disparu en 1792 après le passage des révolutionnaires.


The tomb of Louis XI (1423-1483): King 1461 to 1483.

Strategist, Louis XI ended the Hundred Years War (Treaty of Picquigny, August 29, 1475), expanding the kingdom of France, restored the royal authority by weakening the feudal powers.

He built the college of Clery-Saint-André in which he was buried.

For the first time in the funerary architecture, death is no longer represented by lying but praying (praying).

The original statue of Louis XI, copper and gilded bronze, was the king clothes hunter kneeling in prayer in front of Notre Dame on a cushion, serving prie-dieu, the colors of the arms of France. It was the work of the goldsmith Conrad of Cologne and the founder Laurent Wrine.

On 2 April 1562, the tomb of the king was destroyed by the Protestants after the capture of the city of Orleans by the armies of the Prince de Conde.

In the nineteenth century, the sculptor Beauvallet Barberon then reconstituted a new tomb contained from the nave of the church.

In 1896, Dr. Duchateau made ​​the inventory of the royal tomb and found that five pieces of skull.

The basis of a skull and jaw sawn, assigned to Charlotte of Savoy. The second wife of Louis XI, Charlotte of Savoy, was buried beside her husband in Clery.

A cut calvaria, a jaw and a fragment of the part attributed to nasal Louis XI.

The rest of the bones disappeared in 1792 after the passage of the revolutionaries.
Date Taken on 17 June 2013, 09:43
Source Cléry-Saint-André (Loiret)
Author Daniel Jolivet
Camera location47° 49′ 12.8″ N, 1° 45′ 18.62″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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