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Title: Paris and environs, with routes from London to Paris : handbook for travellers
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipzig, K. Baedeker
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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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 structure.Sugers 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 architecture.Round 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«
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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 deatli.The 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 splendour.The importance of the town dates from the foundation of its Ben-edictine abbey by Dag^obert I. Under the Carlovingian dynasty the monksof St-Denis concerned themselves with

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