Vincennes - Sainte-Chappelle

The Sainte-Chapelle (1379-1552) at Vincennes, modeled on the Sainte Chapelle in the royal palace on the Ile de la Cité, has preserved its Gothic character (openwork gable, walls made up entirely of windows, variety of Late Gothic forms) in spite of the fact that it was completed only in the Renaissance period (magnificent Renaissance windows in choir). In the northern oratory is the tomb of the Duc d'Enghien, the last Prince de Condé, shot by Napoleon in Vincennes in 1804. A column outside the castle walls below the Tour de la Reine commemorates his execution.