Saint-Michel in Normandy. Such an isolated location was impractical causing Charles VIII to transfer this meeting place to the chapel of Saint-Michel-du-Palais, part of Paris' medieval royal residence the Palais de la Cité which the kings no longer used, to the control of the order in 1496. By letters patent dated 15 August 1555, the seat of the Order was transferred to the royal Château de Vincennes outside Paris. The Order of St. Michael was abolished by Louis XVI on 20 June 1790. It was revived by Louis XVIII on 16 November 1816 but the king took little interest in the order and no new knights were added after 1816. The Order was again abolished by the French authorities in 1830. The Order's last member died in 1850, although ten nominations of knights were conferred in 1929, 1930, and in the 1970s and 1980s. The French government considers the Order to be the origin of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres: Saint-Michel Order (1460–1830) can be considered as the precursor of the Order of the Arts and Lettres. Originally destined to the aristocracy, from 17th to 18th centuries it became an order of civil merit, which distinguished many artists, architects, collectors, and people of lettresArchives de France, Notable recipients No formal list of members of the order exists. The names of members can be gleaned from reference to their receipt of the order, from secondary sources, or from periodic lists compiled showing companions from particular families or regions. Initial cohort The first fifteen knights, men of "good sense, valiance, wisdom and other great and laudable virtues" (bon sens, vaillance, prud'hommie et autres grandes et louables vertus) were appointed by Louis XI and tasked to select, jointly with the king himself, the next ones to complete the first group of thirty-six: Charles, Duke of Guyenne John II, Duke of Bourbon Louis of Luxembourg, Constable of Saint-Pol André de Laval, Marshal of France Jean V de Bueil, Count of Sancerre Louis de Beaumont, lord of La Forêt and Le Plessis Jean d'Estouteville, lord of Torcy Louis de Laval, lord of Châtillon , Count of Roussillon, Admiral of France Antoine de Chabannes, Count of Dammartin, Grand Master of the Hotel of France Jean d'Armagnac, Count of Comminges, Marshal of France , lord of Craon Gilbert de Chabannes, lord of Curton, Seneschal of Guyenne , Seneschal of Poitou Tanneguy du Châtel, Governor of