The Jean de Bourbon chapel in Flamboyant Gothic style was built around 1460 by Abbot Jean de Bourbon, the illegitimate son of Duke Jean III de Bourbon, the 42nd abbot of Cluny from 1456 to 1481. The monument was intended to become his funeral chapel. Preserved by the Revolution and the Empire, unlike the abbey, it presents a decoration specified by Jean de Bourbon himself of carved consoles of prophets of the Old Testament. These consoles were originally surmounted by full-length statues representing the Virgin, John the Baptist, Peter, and the twelve other apostles, including Paul, to whom the prophets depicted on the consoles were linked.