Sainte-Chapelle de Vincennes

This guide to the Sainte-Chapelle de Vincennes in Paris opens with Charles the Fifth, who set masons to work on a private royal chapel inside his fortress at Vincennes in 1379 and died within a year, leaving it a half-built shell. It follows the chapel through the Hundred Years' War, when English forces seized the castle and King Henry the Fifth died inside its unroofed walls in 1422. Generations of scaffolding stood where worshippers should have knelt. Stand beneath the rose window as you listen, where the chapel's whole long wait is easiest to picture.