The two extremities of this gigantic parallelogram were occupied, the one by the famous marble table, so long, so broad, and so thick that, as the ancient land rolls-in a style that would have given Gargantua an appetite-say, "such a slice of marble as was never beheld in the world"; the other by the chapel where Louis XI. had himself sculptured on his knees before the Virgin, and whither he caused to be brought, without heeding the two gaps thus made in the row of royal statues, the statues of Charlemagne and of Saint Louis, two saints whom he supposed to be great in favor in heaven, as kings of France.
Paralelogramo ikaragarri haren bi mutur haietako batean, marmolezko mahai famatua zegoen; sekula ikusitako luze, zabal eta lodiena (pergamino zaharrek, Gargantuan jangura eragingo lioketen estiloaz, munduan tamaina hartako marmol-puskarik ez zela ikusi zioten). Beste muturrean, Luis XI.aren kapera zegoen. Ama Birjinaren aurrean belauniko zegoela eskultura eginarazita, hara eramatea agindu zuen, errege-estatuen lerroan bi nitxo hutsik geratzen zirelako batere kezkatu gabe. Nitxoak Karlomagno eta San Luisenak ziren, zeintzuk Frantziako errege izan zirelako zeruan indar handia izango baitzuten.