 Between August 1424 and Lent 1425, during the Anglo-Burgundian alliance when John Duke of Bedford ruled Paris as Regent after the deaths of Henry V of England and Charles VI of France, a mural of the Danse Macabre was painted on the back wall of the arcade below the charnel house on the south side of the cemetery.It was one of the earliest and best-known depictions of this theme.It was destroyed in 1669 when this wall was demolished to allow the narrow road behind it to be widened.