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Historical Archive: Saint-Denis basilica, interior Narthex c.1135-1140 Ambulatory, eastern chapels, and piers of chevet hemicycle 1140-1144 Apse including shafts added to hemicycle piers 1231-1245 Nave 1240s-1270s Chapels in the chevet are arranged from north to south. narthex, center bays to south-west narthex, center narthex, western pier between north and center bays narthex, from north to south narthex, vault of center bay narthex, vault of north bay nave, vaults under organ loft nave to east, from narthex nave vaults nave to east, north elevation north aisle to east south aisle to west, from chevet; with monument for heart of François II, Primaticcio 1560 capital in blind arcade of aisle capital in blind arcade of aisle capital in blind arcade of aisle chevet, crossing, and nave to west crossing and nave to west, from behind altar nave and north transept to west south transept, east clerestory windows with exterior buttresses chevet vaults chevet north elevation chevet north triforium view to west from south chevet with Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, marble, Edme Gaulle and Pierre Petitot, 1830 north transept pier and entry to ambulatory north apse hemicycle, ambulatory, and chapels south ambulatory, chapels, and adjoining room from apse Apostles retable (Crosby relief), c.1150, in Chapel of St. Osmana north ambulatory with chapels of St. Maurice, St. Peregrinus, and the Virgin, and piers of apse hemicycle Chapel of St. Maurice with 13th-c. St. Eustace retable pier of apse hemicycle with people for scale and Chapel of St. Maurice in background north ambulatory with chapels of St. Maurice (left background) and St. Peregrinus (right background) chapels of St. Maurice (left) and St. Peregrinus (right) capitals on pier between chapels of St. Maurice and St. Peregrinus capitals on pier between chapels of St. Maurice and St. Peregrinus pier of apse hemicycle with Chapel of St. Peregrinus on left east ambulatory with Chapel of the Virgin on right southeast ambulatory with person for scale and Chapel of St. Cucuphas south ambulatory with Chapels of SS Cucuphas (left) and Eugene (right) apse hemicycle pier capital ambulatory capital vaults of ambulatory (top) and chapel (bottom) St. Francis preaching to the birds (reproduction of 1260-80 fresco, San Francesco, Assisi), poster displayed in Saint-Denis 2011 prayer graffiti, poster displayed in Saint-Denis 2011 prayer graffiti, poster displayed in Saint-Denis 2011