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Must See

Did You Know?
The spire is 75m (245 ft)
high. It was erected in
1853 after four previous
spires burned down.

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Angel

Upper Chapel

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1 The Lower Chapel is
not as light and lofty as
the Upper Chapel, but is
still magnificent.
2 The windows of the
Upper Chapel contain
600 sq m (6,458 sq ft)
of stained glass.
3 Carved stone statues
of the Apostles adorn the
3 pillars of the Upper Chapel.

ST LOUIS’S RELICS
Louis IX was extremely devout, and
was canonized in 1297, not long after
his death. In 1239, he acquired the
Crown of Thorns from the Emperor
of Constantinople and, in 1241, a
fragment of Christ’s Cross. He built
this chapel as a shrine to house
them. Louis paid nearly three
times more for the relics than
for the construction of
Sainte-Chapelle. The
Illustration of Ste- Crown of Thorns is now
Chapelle, a landmark kept at Notre-Dame.
of national importance
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