Signs of economic recovery
In 1529, François I appointed the cardinal Louis de Bourbon as abbot commendataire Commendataire
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Abbot who benefited from the prebend, a personal share of the revenues from an abbey's estate. to the abbey. The cardinal was a member of the royal family, and he was the first in a series of nine abbots, who were lay or secular ecclesiastics. To reconnect with the splendour of the abbots of the fourteenth century, in 1530 the cardinal ordered work to begin on a sumptuous dwelling. Around 1572, Catherine de Medicis began work on the Valois mausoleum, located to the north of the abbey-church Abbey-church
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The main church of an abbey.. Local artisans benefited from this upturn in construction: the abbey's account books mention the merchants and craftspersons who took part in these projects and who, for the most part, lived in Saint-Denis.