Basilica Saint-Denis: The Royal Tombs that Were Opened and Destroyed During the French Revolution

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23 күн бұрын

The Basicalica Saint Denis was the burial place for the kings and nobility of France for hundreds and hundreds of years. During the French Revolution those tombs were opened and desecrated. In this video I tell you a little bit more about what happened.
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@EvelynEdwards 21 күн бұрын

For the BEST picture quality up to 4K- don’t forget to change your RESOLUTION SETTINGS! Head to the SETTINGS WHEEL on the right and put it at the highest resolution possible. 💚🏰

@cleftoftherock6797 21 күн бұрын

Incredible.

@catherinemathias3456 20 күн бұрын

Beautiful!!!!❤❤❤❤❤

@Belladicta 21 күн бұрын

Terrible. How wicked were these ma sons

@noreenclark2568 18 күн бұрын

Sacrilegious 😢

@PsychicMediumJoVon 21 күн бұрын

Evelyn I know this is off topics what happened to Mary Queen of Scot dogs 🐕

@EvelynEdwards 21 күн бұрын

That part of the story we don’t know. Whaat happened to her dog, the actual breed of her dog, all of that has entered in to legend.

@Mette-s1u 20 күн бұрын

💚🏰💚

@melindalopez3978 21 күн бұрын

What the hell is wrong with people?!?! You would think being God fearing people that they would not desecrate graves. Disgusting and shameful behavior. 😔

@sunday4419 21 күн бұрын

You have no idea how much people suffered under the reign of Kings and Queens. Totally understandable what they did.

@Briselance 5 күн бұрын

@@sunday4419 Understandable? No. No, no, no. Desecrating a grave is unacceptable, whatever the creed or political stances.

@robnewman6101 23 сағат бұрын

I wish France was a Kingdom today. A Monarch. So sad & such a shame its not anymore. R.I.P French Royalists. R.I.P gone Kingdom of France.

@robnewman6101 23 сағат бұрын

⚜️ ⚜️ ⚜️ ✅️ 🇨🇵 ❌️

@sidneyking11 21 күн бұрын

I really can not understand human behaviors sometimes.

@MariaMartinez-researcher 17 күн бұрын

Those were peoples whose sons were recruited to fight the kings' wars, but who would never be officers, because only noblemen could be one. Napoleon's father had to prove with documents that the Bonaparte were noble, so little Napoleon could go to the military school to become an artillery officer - because they were poor. The son of a rich father of a big noble house became a colonel at 16 years old. That was just *one* of the too many, too deep, too insulting inequalities of the time. There were generations of accumulated anger there. There is no justification for destroying historical patrimony, but, please remember, up to that point, there was not a country called France, inhabited by the French people; there was a kingdom named France, which in its entirety belonged to the king. Those graves were not the people's history, but the history of their owners. If you are American, there's a reason why your independence war is called the Revolutionary War. Going against the King placed in the throne by God was a high crime. No graves were desecrated, but, if you care to research the subject, Americans and British who remained loyal to the King, were not dealt with kindly.

@Briselance 5 күн бұрын

I am French, and never in my life considered myself other than a republican. But what was done then was simply abhorrent. Maybe that with modern techniques, the sets of bones could be assorted and the bodies be put to rest again where they were, with the proper, era-accurate lying statues.