Denis St

Denis, St., the name of the town that has risen round the Gothic abbey church referred to above. It is 6 miles N. of Paris, but is included in the outer line of fortifications. Factories for cotton weaving, bleaching, and dyeing, and large chemical works maintain a considerable population of the working-class, and the suburb bears rather an evil reputation for crime and turbulence. The existing church, 415 feet long by 106 wide, built in the 12th century by Sucer, at the cost of Louis VII., has suffered much from revolutionary violence, but still preserves some of the rich and delicate features of the earlier structure. In the crypt below lie the remains of many of the French kings, whose statues from Clovis to Louis XVI., mutilated but restored, adorn the interior.