CHAPELLE ARDENTE (Fr. " burning chapel ")

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CHAPELLE ARDENTE (Fr. " burning chapel ") , the chapel or room in which the corpse of a sovereign or other exalted personage lies in state pending the funeral service. The name is in allusion to the many candles which are lighted

round

ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

the

catafalque

CATAFALQUE (a word of unknown origin, occurring in various forms in many
European
- EUROPEAN
languages
- LANGUAGES
, meaning a funeral
scaffold
- SCAFFOLD
- SCAFFOLD, SCAFFOLDING (from the O. Fr. escafaut, originally escafalt,
  modern
  - MODERN
  echafaud, a corruption of the Italian or Spanish calafalco, a platform, especially a canopy over a bier, a catafalque; this word is composed of O. Span.
  altar
  - ALTAR (Lat. altare, from
    alias
    - ALIAS (Lat. for " at another time ")
    , high; some ancient etymological guesses are recorded by St Isidore of Seville in Etymologiae xv. 4)
  , O. Ital. catare, t
or temporary stage)

. This custom is first chronicled as occurring at the

obsequies

OBSEQUIES (Med. Lat. obsequiae, formed after class. Lat. exsequiae)

of Dagobert I. (602638).

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