View of the Basilica from the upper rear gallery.
The Choir performs under the grand organ.
A view of the southern ambulatory, and The Descent from the Cross, painted by Baron Pierre Narcisse Guérin. This is one of two paintings by de Steuben, given as a gift to the Cathedral by King Louis XVIII (Louis Stanislas Xavier) of France. (Louis XVIII, known as "the Desired", was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France and Navarre from 1814 to 1824 except for a period in 1815 known as the Hundred Days; "Stanislas" was chosen to honor his great-grandfather King Stanisław Leszczyński of Poland;)
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