Copper funerary inscription (1715) torn off Louis XIV's coffin in 1793. The inscription reads: "Here lies the body of Louis XIV by the grace of god, very Christian King of France and of Navarre — deceased in his Palace of Versailles on the 1st of September 1715. Rest in Peace." (Paris, musée de Cluny, musée national du Moyen Âge, en dépôt à la basilique-cathédrale Saint-Denis de Saint-Denis © DR)