Gisants
The below represents what I believe to be a comprehensive collection of all of the gisants (recumbent tombs) present on the ground and altar levels of the cathédrale. The pictures are organized in essentially the same order that a visitor to the cathédrale would see them; one enters in the southern transept, moves east through and around the choir, and winds up just past the northern transept. Chapelles and anything I regarded as otherwise interesting are confined to their own section so as to preserve the flow of the gisants.
Francois Ier and his wife, Claude de France.
Francois II (the pole surrounded by cherubim).
Philippe IV le Bel (top) and Philippe III le Hardi.
Charles Martel (top left) and Clovis II.
Isabelle d’Aragon (woman, near left).
Abbots Michel de Troyes (left) and Jacques de Longuejoé.
Charles V (black plinth, left) and Jeanne de Bourbon.
Louis de Sancerre.
Charles VI le Fou (top, black plinth), Isabeau de Baviére. Marie d’Anjou (left bust on pillar), Charles VII (right bust on pillar). Bertrand de Guesclin (left, recumbent on white plinth), Louis de Sancerre. Charles V (top black plinth, foreground), Jeanne de Bourbon.
The recently-cleaned Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette d’Autriche.
Léon V de Lusignan.
Charles comte d’Alançon (near left), Marie d’Espagne.
Unknown princesse.
An unknown princesse.
Unknown princesse.
Jean and Blanche de France.
Robert II d’Artois.
Clovis Ier (left) and Childebert Ier.
Frédégonde.
The tomb of Dagobert.
I don’t know why there’s another copy of Henri II and Catherine de Medicis. The non-tomb version is seen here.
Marie de Bourbon Vendôme, in front of an epitaph.
Jean II le Bon (right) and Philippe VI de Valois.
Philippe VI de Valois (left, first whole length body in frame), Philippe V le Long, Jeanne d’Evreux, Charles IV le Bel, Blanche.
The tomb of Henri II and Catherine de Medicis as seen from the northern chapel that overlooks the transept.
Henri II and Catherine de Medicis.
Carloman (left) and Ermentrude.
Philippe (left) and Constance de Castille.
Louis VI le Gros (left), Henri Ier, Jean Ier (child), Jeanne de France.
Robert II le Pieux (top left), Constance d’Arles (woman, top center), Louis X le Hutin.
Louis XII and Anne de Bretagne.
Guillaume de Chastel.
Philippe de France.
Louis de France.
Charles Ier d’Anjou.
Louis et Philippe.
Blanche de France.
Jeanne de France (bottom) and Blanche de Navarre.
Charles.
An unidentified reine.
Louis de France (left) and Marguerite d’Artois.
Clémence de Hongrie.
Charles, comte d’Etampes (left) and Marguerite de Flandre.
Beatrice de Bourbon.
Pépin le Bref (left) and his wife, Berthe.
Louis III (right) and Carloman.
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