Space and content balance meant that in Great Burial Places I could only cover three sites in Paris: Père Lachaise Cemetery, the Pantheon and the Catacombs. But there is one more burial precinct that is well worth a visit. The Basilica of Saint Denis, a beautiful Romanesque abbey church in the north of Paris, was the last resting place of all but three of the kings of France. It was ransacked during the French Revolution and all the bodies buried there were dug up and destroyed, but the building is a magnificent example of medieval French architecture and there have been several royal burials and transfers of royal remains from elsewhere since the Revolution.
