[35] This is curious as showing the antiquity of the fashion of plaiting surplices which is customary in France. [36] Dom Millet. [37] "Ensépouturé fut en l'église Saint-Denis en France à cui il avoit donnez maint biau don, mis fu en costé le mestre autel en un riche sarcu d'alebastre." (Chronicle of S. Denis.) And yet, soon after Charles's death, S. Eucher is supposed to have seen, by revelation, the sufferings of the Maire du Palais in Hell, where for his sins he was precipitated before the Day of Judgment. The tomb was opened in the presence of Bishop Eucher, Boniface the legate, and Fulrad, abbot of S. Denis, when behold! a great dragon jumped out, and the coffin had the appearance of having been burned. [38] Helgaud, _Vie de Robert le Pieux_. [39] Idem. [40] Robert was abbot of S. Denis. [41] Suger, _Vie de Louis-le-Gros_. [42] Adèle ou Alix, daughter of Thibaut le Grand, comte de Champagne, third wife of Louis VII. [43] Near Melun. [44] Mézeray. [45] _Vie de Louis-le-Gros._ [46] "If zealous love should go in search of virtue, Where should he find it purer than in Blanche? * * * * * Such as she is, in beauty, virtue, birth, Is the young Dauphin every way complete." _Shakespeare. King John._ [47] Millin, _Antiquités Nationales_. [48] Le corps de Saint-Louis fut porté une partie du chemin depuis Saint-Denis par Henri III., roi d'Angleterre, et par les barons de France et d'Angleterre sur leurs épaules, cérémonie qui est représentée sur le tombeau, où le prince est couvert d'un drap d'or bordé d'une bande d'étoffe bleue, semée de fleurs de lis d'or, la tête soutenue par le roi saint Louis, et les pieds par le roi d Angleterre.--P. Anselme, _Histoire de la Maison de France_. [49] This does not quite agree with Dom Millet's account of the Huguenot depredations already given upon page 33. [50] He could not have found much more rest at S. Denis, for which he had a great respect, although he desired to be buried at Cléry. Many a time this king perambulated from Paris to S. Denis barefooted, for he held the Saint to be the "Holy Protector of his dominions, the Guide of his councils, and the Guardian of his soul." [51] This was a sort of posthumous decapitation. Cardinal Richelieu's statue at the Sorbonne was treated in the same way.