[See also: CONQUES; CRUSADES; JEAN DESCHAMPS; PARIS; PHILIP II
AUGUSTUS; PHILIP IV THE FAIR; ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE; SAINT-
DENIS; TOULOUSE; TOURS/TOURAINE]
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CLÉRY
. The collegiate church of Notre-Dame de Cléry (Loiret), located in a small village just
south of Orléans, has been an important site of Marian devotion since the late 13th
century and enjoyed lavish support by the kings of France. During the first decade of the
14th century, a new church, whose bell tower still survives on the north flank, was
erected with the assistance of Philip IV the Fair. After its destruction by the English in
1428, Cléry was rebuilt by Charles VII and Dunois. By 1449, construction had reached
the north-transept portal under the direction of Pierre Chauvin, master of the works of the
duchy of Orléans, and in 1482 Louis XI, who is buried at Cléry, inaugurated the addition
of the four western bays of the nave.
Despite its adoption of such up-to-date Flamboyant style features as double-curved
tracery and continuous moldings, Cléry is characterized by decorative severity, a
disciplined order of forms, and conscious retrospection. The plan, with its nonprojecting
transept and ambulatory without chapels, seems a simplified version of Notre-Dame in
Paris. Similarly, the cylindrical piers and taut membranous wall surfaces of the two-story
elevation continue ideas that had been part of Parisian architecture since the late 12th
century.
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