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the royal family were buried in the vaults at St Denis and the Val-de- 

 Grace, and were not commemorated at least after Henry IV., whose 

 splendid tomb no longer exists -by any such stately monuments as 

 those of their Valois predecessors, and though their subjects were as 

 lavish as ever in their expenditure on sepulchral art, the interest of such 

 monuments tended to become more and more concentrated on the 

 statuary. This was no doubt largely due to the great increase in the 

 number of competent sculptors. Elaborate architectural treatment for 

 private tombs was, however, still far from uncommon in the seventeenth 

 century, and most of the types of tombs of the sixteenth may be seen 

 reproduced. The commonest form of memorial for personages who 

 would have been, or have thought themselves, inadequately com- 

 memorated by a mere wall-tablet, was to transform an entire side 

 chapel into a mausoleum, dividing it from the church by a screen of 

 more or less elaboration such as those in the chevet of Le Mans 

 Cathedral, and to place the monument proper, generally more or less 

 of the wall-niche type, with orders, cartouches, sculpture, and a pro- 

 fusion of coloured marble against the outer wall. Such, for instance, 

 is the monument of Louvois at Tonnerre and most of those mentioned 

 among the works of the sculptors referred to in the following chapter 

 (p. 292). Sometimes, too, the screen itself was so designed as to 

 constitute the monument. The canopy tombs of Henry of Guise 

 and his wife Catharine of Cleves in the college-chapel at Eu, placed 

 in the arches of the choir, may be classed with this type. 



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