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a flight of stones stairs, and find yourself in a stone cave under the church. There are some chapels, but the best of all: you have to look through a little bit of a window, you then see some coffins, that look like old wooden boxes tied up with rotten strings. 
M. A's remains are in one and some other people of the royal family in the others. It seems to me strang that they should be left in such an uncared for state; it looks as though it was an old cellar, and that they had been pushed in there out of the way. The church of St. Denis its self is very beautiful, but of course 
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not so interesting as it might be if it had never been destroyed or rebuilt.  A small part of it however is still old and the change in architecture is very marked. We drove home the same way as we came, but the drive seemed shorter as it always does coming home; perhaps because you think a good deal about what you have seen.