Editing Cadaver monument (section)

===France===
[[Image:Le Transi de René de Chalon (Ligier Richier).jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|[[Cadaver Tomb of René of Chalon|Cadaver monument of René de Chalon]], Church of St. Étienne, [[Bar-le-Duc]], France, by [[Ligier Richier]]]]

France has a long history of cadaver monuments, though not as many examples or varieties survive as in England. One of the earliest and anatomically convincing examples is the gaunt cadaver effigy of the medieval physician [[Guillaume de Harsigny]] (d. 1393) at [[Laon]].<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|title=Monument of the month – Church Monuments Society|url=https://churchmonumentssociety.org/monument-of-the-month|access-date=2020-10-17|website=churchmonumentssociety.org}}</ref> Another early example is the effigy on the multi-layered wall-monument of Cardinal [[Jean de La Grange]] (died 1402) in Avignon. Kathleen Cohen lists many further extant examples. A revival of the form occurred in the Renaissance, as testified by the two examples to Louis XII and his wife Anne of Brittany at Saint-Denis, and of Queen [[Catherine de' Medici]] who commissioned a cadaver monument for her husband [[Henry II of France|Henry II]].