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The Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis
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Around 475, St Genevieve had an oratory built on the tomb of St Denis, a missionary bishop martyred in Lutetia by the Romans in the 3rd century. Two centuries later, on the same site, Dagobert I, King of the Franks, had an abbey church built, in which he was buried, and a Benedictine monastery. The Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis became a place of knowledge and power from its foundation. Between 769 and 775, Abbot Fulrad had the abbey church enlarged to become a basilica. A royal necropolis from the advent of the Capetians in 987, the Saint-Denis basilica houses the tombs of forty-two kings of France.
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