ST. LOUIS CHAPEL
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An act of Louis IX, known as Saint Louis, dated 1238, provides information on the construction of this edifice. The same year, in this chapel, Baldwin II, Emperor of Constantinople, ceded to St. Louis the relics of Christ, including the crown of thorns, for which the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris was built a few years later. Dating from the 13th century, Saint-Germain-en-Laye's Chapelle Saint-Louis was probably designed by the architect Pierre de Montreuil, who is also said to have worked on the south crossbeam of Notre-Dame de Paris. Radiant Gothic in style, as evidenced by the large rose on the west wall, the building was the scene of many historic events. Among the royal weddings that took place here, François I married Claude de France in 1514; Charles IX was baptized here in 1550 and Louis XIV in 1643. François I, Henri II, Louis XIII and then Louis XIV, in their desire to transform and enlarge the château, contributed to the modification and concealment of the Gothic chapel. One of the pavilions built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, and commissioned by Louis XIV, eventually masked the building's exterior façade and roof. In the 19th century, architect Eugène Millet was commissioned to revive the palace of François I, as part of the development of the Musée des Antiquités Nationales. To achieve this, the pavilions erected by Mansart were deconstructed, and the 13th-century chapel was reconstructed as faithfully as possible.
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Si possible, cette visite est à jumeler avec la collégiale St Louis de Poissy.