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Suger
Suger was abbot of Saint-Denis near Paris from 1122 and an adviser to the French kings Louis VI and Louis VII, serving as regent while Louis VII was on the Second Crusade. His rebuilding of the abbey church of Saint-Denis in the 1140s, with its pointed arches, rib vaults and large stained-glass windows, is usually regarded as the beginning of Gothic architecture.
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