Chapelle Expiatoire (Paris)

France / Ile-de-France / Paris
 memorial, chapel
This is the place where Louis XVI and Maria Antoinette were brought and buried after their decapitation on the place the la Concorde. Its former name was Cimetière de Madeleine.
During the French Revolution it had been a cemetery. Many victims of the guillotine were
buried there. It is also a mass grave (approx. 600 persons) of the Swiss Guards who were slaughtered after the storming of the Tuileries Palace on the 10th august 1792.
Louis brother XVIII. built in the early 1800 a chapel to honor the victims of the French terror.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapelle_expiatoire
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Coordinates:   48°52'25"N   2°19'22"E
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