Dreux: Chapelle royale Saint-Louis

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The Shrine Royal Orleans doma.Lui Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duc de Pentevr received county Dreux as a gift from his cousin Louis XVI in 1775, a few years later, in 1783, Duke sold their King ancestral lands Rambouillet. At the same time it was necessary to move the remains of their relatives in a small medieval church in the Rambouillet castle church tomb in Dreux. Duc de Pentevr died in March 1793, and his body was buried in a crypt near his parents. November 21 the same year, during the French Revolution, the crowd was defiled crypt and threw all the bodies in a mass grave in the cemetery chapel of San Shanones peer-Etienne. About where the bodies are, with difficulty managed to find the faithful servants of the dynasty. In 1816 the daughter of the Duke of Pentevra - Louise of Orleans - bought their own land from a private individual who has acquired it on the sales of the Revolution and the building of the chapel erected at the site of the fraternal burial.