The term may also be applied to the chapel buildings, the Chapelle royale de Versailles.
The establishment included a choir, organist and instrumentalists and was separate from the musique du chambre which performed secular music.
In 1511 Louis XII decided the responsibilities of the treasurer of the Sainte-Chapelle and the master of the chapelle royale.
Henri IV was the king whom legend tells said "Paris is worth a Mass."
La Chapelle Royale founded in 1977 in Paris by the Belgian conductor Philippe Herreweghe.