Sainte-Chapelle de Bourges

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The Sainte-Chapelle de Bourges, is a former religious building built in the 15th century on the territory of the commune of Bourges in the department of Cher, France. Built at the request of Duke Jean de Berry (1340-1416), prince of blood, brother of King Charles V the Sage, she was attached to the Ducal Palace (currently Hôtel de préfecture du Cher, Place Marcel-Plaisant). Completed in 1450, it was destroyed in 1757.

The religious of Saint-Denis, chronicler of the reign of Charles VI, repeatedly evokes the piety of John of Berry. It is therefore not surprising to find mention, in 1392, of the erection of a Sainte-Chapelle in Bourges. It was a bubble of Pope Clement VII that authorized him. The Duke's will was to raise in Bourges a building similar to the Sainte-Chapelle de Paris.

It was quickly built from 1392 to 1397 by Drouet de Dammartin and dedicated to the Saint-Sauveur. The Sainte-Chapelle was invested on Easter Day 1405 by Arnaud Belin, treasurer, and twelve canons, thirteen chaplains and thirteen vicars, then consecrated the next day by Pierre Lovery, archbishop of Bourges. On this occasion the great chandelier with a hundred candles was lit...