I wish France was a Kingdom today. A Monchary. Its so sad & such a shame its not anymore. R.I.P French Royalists. R.I.P gone Kingdom of France. 😟😔💔🙏🤲🌫💧👑⚜️⚜️⚜️🥀💐🛐🕎➕️🛡⚔️💎🤴⛪️👸🏰🐎
I went to Saint Denis in 2001and it was wonderful. The inside of the church is beautiful and the royal tombs are what make it most memorable. To see all the different styles and how they evolved over time. Yes, the bodies are no longer in the tombs thanks to the Revolution, but the artistry of the tombs are fascinating. I highly recommend this especially since it not usually crowded like so many of the other sites in Paris. Well worth the time.
This is the place where the royal dynasties of the largest and most fabulous monarchy of European history lie. If the French Revolution had not been, this monarchy would impress much more than that of England because it was much older and its influence was crucial for the future of the Christian world ....
Loved the video. Couldn't believe my luck when I saw the plaque for Francois II. I've been researching him and his wife Mary Queen of Sots for the last few weeks. Was awesome to see the late King of France and King Consort of Scotland's plaque. Thanks for the tour.
Thank you for posting this video of your visit to this cathedral. I appreciate your narrative at the beginning giving the viewer the opportunity to explore with you. I hope to one day visit :)
Thank you for this, outstanding job sir. I thought you did a very nice job on this video. It is one of my favorite churches and it is hard to find nice work like this.
I very much enjoyed that thanks for sharing. Given the state of the World I fear I may never actually get to see this (and many other sites). I’d heard that about the Revolution & what they did. Yikes. But in their world at THAT time, when the nobility are constructing massive chateaus or palaces,laden with gold and marble, some only visited once a year it shouldn’t have been a surprise people said enough is enough. While the majority of the population could barely afford bread...aka cake. So I was surprised to see such significant monuments to Louis & Marie Antoinette.
I read that Napoleon ordered that the desecrated abbey be restored & the scattered monuments, tomb art and royal remains retrieved and placed back. No surviving St. Denis without Napoleon's decree.
A lot tomb were empty?during revolution large number of tomb were vandalized and destroyed.and theses tomb we seen today were reconstructfuring napoleon and bourbon restoration.
Thanks for the video. Just found out what the French revolutionists did to the tombs of the monarchs and their families. Appalling! 😔 Where the remains re-buried in those 3 big crypts? With all their names on it?
The names are engraved in a list on the wall as you go into the crypts. The remains seem to be combined... so individual remains are unknown. However, further on in the sepulcher there are many sarcophagi with individual remains, Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI, etc.
Yes, the remains of all those named on these black boards since the 6th c. were re-buried behind them. In the church above you've got only the original medieval sculptures which were placed again on the reconstructed tombs after the Revolution. After the Valois whose large monuments are original too, the Bourbons did'nt created sculpted monuments and were just put in lead sarcophagi on the pavement of the crypt.
Some kings of the first two French dynasties, merovingians and carolingians (before the capetians) are not burried in Saint Denis neither and the first King, Clovis, was first burried in Paris.
I wish France was a Kingdom today. A Monchary.
Its so sad & such a shame its not anymore.
R.I.P French Royalists.
R.I.P gone Kingdom of France.
😟😔💔🙏🤲🌫💧👑⚜️⚜️⚜️🥀💐🛐🕎➕️🛡⚔️💎🤴⛪️👸🏰🐎
I went to Saint Denis in 2001and it was wonderful. The inside of the church is beautiful and the royal tombs are what make it most memorable. To see all the different styles and how they evolved over time. Yes, the bodies are no longer in the tombs thanks to the Revolution, but the artistry of the tombs are fascinating. I highly recommend this especially since it not usually crowded like so many of the other sites in Paris. Well worth the time.
And think about the whole gothic style started there. It was the beginning and made it still more incredible.
As someone who will never get the opportunity to travel and see this firsthand... I thank you for making this video!
You may get there. Never day never. It is a short ride on the Metro from Paris.
This is the place where the royal dynasties of the largest and most fabulous monarchy of European history lie.
If the French Revolution had not been, this monarchy would impress much more than that of England because it was much older and its influence was crucial for the future of the Christian world ....
I must agree!
Loved the video. Couldn't believe my luck when I saw the plaque for Francois II. I've been researching him and his wife Mary Queen of Sots for the last few weeks. Was awesome to see the late King of France and King Consort of Scotland's plaque. Thanks for the tour.
Elizabeth Singleton
Thank you for posting this video of your visit to this cathedral. I appreciate your narrative at the beginning giving the viewer the opportunity to explore with you. I hope to one day visit :)
Thank you for this, outstanding job sir. I thought you did a very nice job on this video. It is one of my favorite churches and it is hard to find nice work like this.
Welcome and good to see you in the video, watching until the end, this content is informative, a huge building church is amazing.
Fantastic I just saw his parents as well!! Henri II and Catherine De Medici. AWESOME!!!!!
I very much enjoyed that thanks for sharing. Given the state of the World I fear I may never actually get to see this (and many other sites). I’d heard that about the Revolution & what they did. Yikes. But in their world at THAT time, when the nobility are constructing massive chateaus or palaces,laden with gold and marble, some only visited once a year it shouldn’t have been a surprise people said enough is enough. While the majority of the population could barely afford bread...aka cake. So I was surprised to see such significant monuments to Louis & Marie Antoinette.
I was thrilled to see Henri II and Catherine de Medici, also Francois I and Henri III. I was looking for Louis XIV.....
I read that Napoleon ordered that the desecrated abbey be restored & the scattered monuments, tomb art and royal remains retrieved and placed back. No surviving St. Denis without Napoleon's decree.
By the empire proclamation, Napoleon reconciliate french people. That was still a cold civil war at the time.
They should do forensic facial reconstructions of all french kings and queens (3 D-scan)
Why not show the exterior with the flying buttresses; that is what is do revolutionary about St Denis.
What about Charles Martel
Very good job
Didn't Loui 14th bones get stolen??
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A lot tomb were empty?during revolution large number of tomb were vandalized and destroyed.and theses tomb we seen today were reconstructfuring napoleon and bourbon restoration.
They had all skeletons and skulls of all french kings and queens.They should make facial reconstructions of all French kings
Thanks for the video. Just found out what the French revolutionists did to the tombs of the monarchs and their families. Appalling! 😔
Where the remains re-buried in those 3 big crypts? With all their names on it?
The names are engraved in a list on the wall as you go into the crypts. The remains seem to be combined... so individual remains are unknown. However, further on in the sepulcher there are many sarcophagi with individual remains, Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI, etc.
They are my ancestors...
Yes, the remains of all those named on these black boards since the 6th c. were re-buried behind them. In the church above you've got only the original medieval sculptures which were placed again on the reconstructed tombs after the Revolution. After the Valois whose large monuments are original too, the Bourbons did'nt created sculpted monuments and were just put in lead sarcophagi on the pavement of the crypt.
The greatest king of all , Louis XI is buried at Clery's church.
Some kings of the first two French dynasties, merovingians and carolingians (before the capetians) are not burried in Saint Denis neither and the first King, Clovis, was first burried in Paris.
Couldn't they DNA test the bones and find out who they belong to? I am related to some of the Kings of France.
Learn your history dude