Founded in , the Sainte-Chapelle Holy Chapel , whose construction started just before the death of Charles V in , was inaugurated only in under the reign of Henry II, after a long interruption of the building work starting at the beginning of 15th century.
Despite two centuries of construction, the chapel has a certain unity of style around the Gothic as evidenced by its lace comparable to dancing flames of stone.
The exterior decoration dates mainly from the period Unlike its Parisian counterpart, this Sainte-Chapelle is higher than one level. Choir and Stained Glass Windows 16th Century. The stained glass windows of the choir, listed as a historical monument, were created and put up in by the master glassmaker Nicolas Beaurain. The windows of the nave are of clear glass with colored borders, made after the Second World War and partly destroyed during the storm of December In , during the French Revolution, the interior decoration was destroyed, the stained glass windows smashed and the Baptistery of Saint Louis long held in the chapel's treasury and used from at least as early as Louis XIII as the baptismal font for children of the French royal family moved to the Louvre Museum.
As a result the chapel is no longer used as a church and is a little bare inside. Front Door. You will also find in the decor a crescent moon mixed with initials. It is also certain that these crescents were also on the stained glass windows which he also created based on drawings from the late 17th century. The moon was an allusion to two successive mottos of King Henry II, but also a discreet reference to the king's mistress, Diane de Poitier, whose symbol was the crescent moon.
The two mottos were; Cum plena est, emula solis when the moon is full, it is equal to the sun , Donec totem impleat orbem until it fills the whole circle. Salamander of Francis I from Exterior of Chappele.
