<P> Catherine was intent on immortalising her sorrow at the death of her husband and had emblems of her love and grief carved into the stonework of her buildings . As the centrepiece of an ambitious new chapel, she commissioned a magnificent tomb for Henry at the basilica of Saint Denis, designed by Francesco Primaticcio . In a long poem of 1562, Nicolas Houël, laying stress on her love for architecture, likened Catherine to Artemisia, who had built the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, as a tomb for her dead husband . Primaticcio's circular plan for the Valois chapel, by allowing the tomb to be viewed from all angles, solved the problems faced by the Giusti brothers and Philibert de l'Orme, builders of previous royal tombs . Art historian Henri Zerner has called the design "a grand ritualistic drama which would have filled the rotunda's celestial space" and "the last and most brilliant of the royal tombs of the Renaissance". Work on the building was abandoned in 1585, as the monarchy faced bankruptcy and a series of rebellions . Over two hundred years later, in 1793, a mob tossed Catherine and Henry's bones into a pit with the rest of the French kings and queens . </P> <P> Catherine de' Medici spent extravagant sums on the building and embellishment of monuments and palaces, and as the country slipped deeper into anarchy, her plans grew ever more ambitious . Yet the Valois monarchy was crippled by debt and its moral authority in steep decline . The popular view condemned Catherine's building schemes as obscenely wasteful . This was especially true in Paris, where the parlement was often asked to contribute to her costs . </P> <P> Ronsard captured the mood in a poem: </P> <Dl> <Dd> The queen must cease building, </Dd> <Dd> Her lime must stop swallowing our wealth...</Dd> <Dd> Painters, masons, engravers, stone - carvers </Dd> <Dd> Drain the treasury with their deceits . </Dd> <Dd> Of what use is her Tuileries to us? </Dd> <Dd> Of none, Moreau; it is but vanity . </Dd> <Dd> It will be deserted within a hundred years . </Dd> </Dl>

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