St-Louis de Dreux (Chapelle Royale)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chapelle Royale Saint-Louis in Dreux

The Chapelle royale de Dreux , also Chapelle Royale Saint-Louis , is the burial place of the d'Orléans family built by Charles Philippe Cramail from 1816 onwards in Dreux on behalf of Madame d'Orléans, born Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon-Penthièvre . After its completion, the people referred to it as Saint-Denis des Orléans , an allusion to the burial place of the French rulers in the former abbey church of Saint-Denis .

King Louis-Philippe I had the original building enlarged in the style of neo-Gothic historicism .

history

When Madame d'Orléans, widow of the guillotined Philippe Égalité , was allowed to return to France from exile after the deposition of the emperor Napoléon I , she decided to have an appropriate burial site built for her family. To this end, she bought back an area next to the collegiate church Saint-Étienne from François Belois, which he had acquired in 1798 after it had been confiscated from the de Bourbon-Penthièvre family .

On February 14, 1816, Madame d'Orléans commissioned the Parisian architect Charles-Philippe Cramail to build the chapel.

People buried in the chapel

organ

Cavaillé-Coll organ from 1845

In 1845, Aristide Cavaillé-Coll built an organ with two manuals, a pedal and 20 stops as Opus 77 . In 1875 there was a revision in which three registers were changed and some were renamed. First he used the cone shop for the prospect pipes . The bass pipes of the Basson-hautbois are built as a double cone shape, as it is known from Clicquot. The organ has had the following disposition since 1875 :

I Grand Orgue
1. Bourdon 16 ′
2. Montre 8th'
3. Flûte harmonique 8th'
4th Bourdon 8th'
5. Salicional 8th'
6th Prestant 4 ′
8th. Flûte octaviante 4 ′
9. Octavine 2 ′
10. Trumpets 8th'
11. Basson 8th'
12. Clairon 4 ′
II Récit expressif
13. Bourdon 8th'
14th Viole de Gambe 8th'
15th Voix céleste 8th'
16. Dulciane 4 ′
17th Basson-Hautbois 8th'
18th Voix humaine 8th'
tremolo
Pedale
19th Soubasse 16 ′
20th Bombard 16 ′
21st Trumpets 8th'
  • Pair: Tirasse Grand-Orgue, Copula
  • Playing aids: Anches Grand-Orgue (basses), Anches Grand-Orgue (basses et dessus), Anches Grand-Orgue (dessus), Anches Récit (basses), Anches Récit (basses et dessus), Anches Récit (dessus).

literature

  • La chapelle royale Saint-Louis de Dreux, sépultures de la famille d'Orléans par le chanoine Martin
  • Dreux, la chapelle royale by Jean Lelièvre
  • Éphéméride de la Maison de France de 1589 à 1848
  • Didier Decrette: Le Grand Orgue Historique de la Chapelle Royale de Dreux . In: La Flûte Harmonique . 27/28 (Numéro spécial), 1984.

Web links

Commons : Chapelle royale Saint-Louis de Dreux  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′ 18 ″  N , 1 ° 21 ′ 48 ″  E