Chapelle Expiatoire

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  • Address
    square Louis XVI, 8e
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  • Phone
    01 44 32 18 00
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  • Transport
    underground rail: St-Augustin

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The austere, neoclassical Atonement Chapel, opposite 29 rue Pasquier, sits atop the section of a cemetery where Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette and many other victims of the Reign of Terror were buried after their executions in 1793. It was erected by Louis' brother, the restored Bourbon king Louis XVIII, in 1815. Two years later the royal bones were removed to the Basilique de St-Denis.