Effigies of Jeanne de Bourbon and Charles V Royal tombs, Basilique Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis, France

Effigy of Charles V, 1338-80, king of France 1364-80 who commissioned his own funerary sculpture from Andre Beauneveu in 1364, and his wife Jeanne de Bourbon, 1338-77, holding a bag indicating that only the entrails of the deceased are buried here, originally from the Eglise des Celestins in Paris and moved to Saint-Denis in 1816, in the Basilique Saint-Denis, Paris, France. The basilica is a large medieval 12th century Gothic abbey church and burial site of French kings from 10th - 18th centuries. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Abbey Church Of Saint Denis, France