Above and to the left Marguerite de Flanders (1310-1382),[ daughter of Philippe V and wife of Louis II of Flanders]. Her husband was killed at the Battle of Crécy in 1364; note the widow's costume. She was a generous benefactress to St Denis.
Below Charles, Comte d'Étampes (1336), son of Louis d'Evreux and Marguerite d'Artois; this monuments was originally in the Church of the Cordeliers, Paris. A remarkably fine and detailed monument.

Above is Béatrice de Bourbon (1381). [wife of Jean, King of Bohemia] Originally in the Church of the Jacobins, Paris

Above Louis de France (1244-1260) [son of Louis IX and Marguerite of Provence] and below Philippe de France (1222-1245) [son of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile.] These two effigies, which rest on tomb chests, were originally in Royaumont Abbey Church. Louis's chest (this is a copy: the original is in the Carnavalat Museum) shows, in high relief, his funeral procession, his soul being taken to heaven by an angel and other motifs. Traces of polychrome remain on Philippe's effigy and weepers around the tomb chest; these are reproductions based on original fragments

Above left and centre top Charles I d'Anjou (1226-1285) Above centre bottom and to the left. He was Count of Anjou and King of Sicily and the son of Louis VIII. He was expelled from Sicily following the revolt known as the 'Sicillian Vespers' His body was buried in Naples and his heart in the Church of the Jacobins, Paris, where this effigy covered the heart burial. Note he holds his heart in his left hand.
 Below centre and to the right Blanche de France (1253-1320) [daughter of St Louis]. She was born in Jaffa during the Seventh Crusade and took the veil in 1275. Effigy originally in Church of the Cordeliers, Paris.

Above Louis et Philippe (1273), [young sons of the Count of Alençon] This is a copy of the original which is in the National Museum of the Middle Ages, Paris.

Above Charles, Comte de Valois (1270-1325) [son of PhilippeIII]. This effigy was originally in the Church of the Jacobins, Paris.

Above,on the left and in the central lower picture is Jeanne of France (1350-1371), daughter of the following; in the upper picture Blanche d'Evreux-Nevarre, wife of Philippe VI. A double monument assumed to be by Jean de Liège. Jeanne died on the journay to Spain to marry John of Aragon. In a similar manner to the effigy of Marie d'Espagne she originally wore a metal crown; the delightful hairstyle is also identical.

 Above is the effigy of Marie de Brienne (1225-1280) which was originally in L'Abbaye de Maubuisson. There have been however several hypotheses about  whom this effigy represents. Maries de Brienne was the last Latin Empress of Constantinople; note the crown.

Above and to the left is Marguerite d'Artois (1311) ;  to the right is her husband, Louis de France (1275-1319) [son of Philippe III]. Both were originally in the Church of the Jacobins, Paris.

Above Clémance de Hongrie (1293-1328) [second wife of Louis X le Huntin]

Above Guillaume du Chastel (1410), pantler to Charles VII who ordered he servant be buried in St Denis. The body is of stone but the face of marble.

Louis Cardinal of Bourbon son of François, Count of Vendôme (ob 1557) Jacques de Valleroy was commissioned for this work in 1530. The column originally supported a praying bronze figure

Louis XII (1515) & Anne of Brittany (1514). This magnificent marble monument was installed in 1531. It was commissioned by François I, designed by either Guido Mazzoni or Perreal and executed by Jean Juste and his family. On the upper stage beautiful images of the King and Queen appear kneeling at prayer while at the lower stage they are shown as gruesome, partly shrouded corpses, the Queen throwing back her head in a final spasm, with the post mortem sutures visible. Figures of the Apostles sit under the twelve arches and at each corner, on a lower stage and in front, are seated the four Virtues - Prudence, Temperance and Strength. This stage is decorated by narrative scenes in low relief of the King's Italian wars.

Henri II (1559) & Catherine of Médici (1589). The Queen commissioned Franceso Primaticcio - who appointed Germain Pilon as sculptor - to construct a monument to herself and her husband on the day after his death. It was completed in 1570. At each corner of the monument are the Four Virtues and allegorical figures representing  Faith, Hope, Charity and Good Deeds -  are carved in low relief around the base. Inside are the partly shrouded figures of the King and Queen. On the platform above they are shown kneeling at prayer in bronze; because of the extreme contrast this is difficult to see in the image above. This monument was originally in the 'Mausoleum of the Valois Kings', constructed at the request of the Queen,  but which, having become in poor condition was demolished in the early eighteenth century.

Heart of Henry III (ob 1580) This monument is a square bas relief formerly in a niche. A Column was also erected of which only the shaft remains

From the time of Henry IV, the Bourbons were places in the ceremonial burial vault, which became overcrowded by the end of the seventeenth century. In 1683  it was decided that the central part of the crypt under the sanctuary be used as a burial vault - this became known as the 'Bourbon Vault'. The coffins were simply placed on iron stands with inscriptions for identification. Other churches continued the practice of receiving the entrails and hearts of the deceased. None of the future projects to build a more suitable burying place - such as a dome - were carried out.
Under Napoleon, architects transformed the Bourbon vault to create a burial place for the Bonaparte family. Louis XVIII restored it to its original condition in order to inter the bodies of his ancestors who could be recognised and who had been ejected during the Revolution as well as those of the executed King and Queen. He also constructed an ossuary to house the remains of earlier kings and others which had been ejected from their tombs at the Revolution.
In the crypt are buried those whom Louis maintained that he had found: Louis VII (1180), Louise de Lorraine [wife of Henri III], Louis XVI (ex 1793) and Marie Antoinette (ex 1793); the last two had been guillotined and originally buried in a Paris cemetery. Louis XVIII (1824) himself was the last king to have been buried here and there is also a tomb awaiting Charles X, who died in exile and is buried in Slovenia. Their six black marble stones, which date from 1975, are shown in the centre photograph above.
Nineteenth century cenotaphs in a side chapel commemorate the Bourbon kings and their family including Henry IV (above left) and Louis XIV(above right). The remains of the following Bourbon kings and queens lie in the ossuary: Henry IV & Marguerite de Valois & Marie de Médici & Henriette d'Angleterre , Louis XIII & Anne d'Autriche, Louis XIV & Marie-Térèse d'Autriche, Louis XV  & Marie Leczinska