Abstract
One of the more important monuments of the French Renaissance stands in the south transept of the abbey church of St.-Denis. It is the white marble Funerary Urn of Francis I (Fig. 1). When this king died at Rambouillet on March 31, 1547 he had willed his heart, brain, and entrails to the nearby abbey of Notre-Dame-des-Hautes-Bruyeres.1 To receive these precious remains, a document dated February 19, 1550 affirms that Philibert Delorme, newly appointed architect to the king, had commissioned this monument to the sculptor Pierre Bontemps.2
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