Fresh troubles.
In 1567, Saint-Denis was once again disrupted by the Hugenot occupation. The monks, taking the treasury with them, sought refuge in Paris, abandoning the monastery to the heretics who caused a great deal of damage and laid waste to most of the churches of the monumental complex. The Saint-Paul church was practically destroyed, forcing the canons Canon
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a member of a religious order who lives according to the "Rule of Saint Augustine", and whose chapter is attached to a collegiate church. to withdraw to a portion of its side aisle that was set up as a chapel dedicated to Saint-Pantaleon. In the same way, the Sainte-Geneviève, Saint-Michel-du-Degré and Saint-Barthélemy churches were damaged. The seats of the three parishes were therefore united in a single building, partially reconstructed, which archaeology has shown possessed a single choir with three small apses. Records state that the three clerics were required to live "peacefully together until two of them being dead, their titles would be eliminated and the last survivor would remain the sole cleric". T
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.