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In 1502 Louis XII commissioned a tomb in honour of his ancestors the Dukes of Orléans from Viscardi and Michele d’Aria in association with the Florentines Donato Benti and Benedetto da Rovezzano. The marble monument, now in the abbey church of Saint-Denis, was originally set up in 1504 in the Celestine Church (destroyed), Paris; it combines a typically Italianate base in the form of a sarcophagus surrounded by small statues of apostles in niches with a more French style for the four reclining figures of Louis, Duke of Orléans (1372-1407), his wife Valentina Visconti (1366-1408) and two of their sons, Charles, Duke of Orléans (139-–1465) and Philippe, Comte de Vertus (1396-1420).
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