the monks were driven out and the abbey secularized during the french revolution. clement's vast abbey church, his tomb and the abbey cloister remain. the fresco of the dance of death (ca 1470) is a famous example of this motif, which gained wide currency following the visitations of the black death. the partners of the figures are skeletons and the parade strictly follows precedence of contemporary society, with adam and eve preceding all: the pope then the emperor, the legate, the prince, the cardinal, the high constable, the patriarch, the knight, then the abbot, the townsman, the merchant, the lady, ending with the lawyer, the minstrel, the clerk, the ploughman, the monk, the innocent child and the pilgrim.