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26 Although the interior <strong>of</strong> Saint-Louis-des-Jésuites was only completed in the early 1640s, plans<br />

would have been underway by the time the Augustins Déchaussés chose the subject for their<br />

high altarpiece.<br />

27<br />

For the imagery at Saint-Louis-des-Jésuites reinforcing the divine right <strong>of</strong> French monarchs,<br />

see Cousinié, "La constitution," 610.<br />

28 On 6 January 1638 Louis XIII granted the Parisian monastery the right to include the royal<br />

arms in its insignia. Other than this privilege, no additional services were provided to the<br />

Augustins Déchaussés. For this event, see Barbiche, "Augustins déchaussés," 40.<br />

29 Le Pas de Sécheval, "Politique artistique," 438; Schieder, "Fondation royale," 208-09.<br />

30 Le Pas de Sécheval, "Politique artistique," 438.<br />

31 For example, the church <strong>of</strong> the Jesuit Noviciate was begun in 1630 <strong>and</strong> Notre-Dame-des-<br />

Anges for the Visit<strong>and</strong>ines was begun in 1632.<br />

32 For the fire <strong>and</strong> the events that immediately followed it, see Sauveur-Jérome Mor<strong>and</strong>, Histoire<br />

de la Sainte-Chapelle Royale du Palais (Paris: Clousier et Prault, 1790), 205-06.<br />

33 For the relics endowing the Sainte-Chapelle with the status <strong>of</strong> the locus sanctus <strong>and</strong> Paris the<br />

New Jerusalem, see Weiss, Art <strong>and</strong> Crusade, 11-77.<br />

34 For the relics as protectors <strong>of</strong> the dynasty <strong>and</strong> kingdom, see Claudine Billot, "La fondation de<br />

Saint Louis. Le collège des chanoines de la Sainte-Chapelle (1248-1555)," in Le trésor de la<br />

Sainte-Chapelle, ed. Jannic Dur<strong>and</strong>, Marie-Pierre Laffitte, <strong>and</strong> Dorota Giovannoi (Paris: Réunion<br />

des Musées Nationaux, 2001), 99.<br />

35 Le Pas de Sécheval, "Politique artistique," 415-17.<br />

36 For the Sainte-Chapelle in comparison with Notre-Dame-de-Paris, see Claude de Varennes, Le<br />

Voyage de France, dressé pour la commodité des françois et des étrangers (Paris: N. Le Gras,<br />

1687), 198. For sources noting the collection <strong>of</strong> relics, see Félibien, Histoire, 1:294; Antoine<br />

Martial Le Fèvre, Description des curiosités des églises de Paris et des environs (Paris: Cl. P.<br />

Gueffier, 1759), 68; Piganiol de la Force, Description historique, 1:71; Sauval, Histoire, 1:445;<br />

Varennes, Le voyage, 198; Philippe de Villers, Journal d'un voyage à Paris en 1657-1658 (Paris:<br />

B. Duprat, 1862), 93.<br />

37 The list <strong>of</strong> Passion relics held at the Sainte-Chapelle varies among the authors, but each source<br />

mentions the crown <strong>of</strong> thorns. For the lists, see Félibien, Histoire, 1:294-96; Mor<strong>and</strong>, Sainte-<br />

Chapelle, 40; Piganiol de la Force, Description historique, 1:71; Sauval, Histoire, 1:445.<br />

38 For the architecture representing royalty, see Sauval, Histoire, 1:445. For a “h<strong>and</strong> more than<br />

human” designing the building, see Le Fèvre, Description des curiosités, 68.<br />

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