An Ateliers d’Art de France event

CHAPELLE EXPIATOIRE

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Discover a monument dedicated to the royal family in the heart of Paris and take the time to admire its architecture and history.

Located in the heart of Paris in square Louis XVI, the Epiatory Chapel built during the Restoration is a place of memory for the Ancien Régime and the Revolution with antique, Renaissance or Medieval influences.

This outstanding romantic-neoclassical building is dedicated to the memory of the royal family. Construction began in 1815 on the orders of Louis XVIII, on the site of a former revolutionary cemetery. In 1793, Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette were buried here, but also the Comtesse du Barry, Charlotte Corday or Olympe de Gouges. 

Continue your journey

Basilique Cathédrale
Saint-Denis
Arc de
Triomphe
Château
de Vincennes
Cité de l’Architecture & du Patrimoine
(Palais de )
la Conciergerie
Coupole de
l’Institut de France
Panthéon
des grands Hommes
Sainte-Chapelle
du palais