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

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@EvelynEdwards 5 ай бұрын

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@crystalynnbearr 3 ай бұрын

That’s so awful. So disrespectful of the deceased. I’m actually horrified

@veevintage2619 3 ай бұрын

That's horrifying. IDC how rich or poor you are, you do NOT disturb the rest of the dead. If they were on a quest to change their political system, that's fine, but focus on the living. What good does it do to desecrate the resting place of those who have already passed away?

@cleftoftherock6797 5 ай бұрын

Incredible.

@Belladicta 5 ай бұрын

Terrible. How wicked were these ma sons

@corneliaarendsen1358 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for this video. Very interesting and sad.😢

@EvelynEdwards 4 ай бұрын

So glad you got something out of it. 💚🙏🏻

@noreenclark2568 5 ай бұрын

Sacrilegious 😢

@Briselance 5 ай 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.

@catherinemathias3456 5 ай бұрын

Beautiful!!!!❤❤❤❤❤

@sidneyking11 5 ай бұрын

I really can not understand human behaviors sometimes.

@MariaMartinez-researcher 5 ай 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.

@AlanHigh-x4i 4 ай бұрын

@@MariaMartinez-researcher No, but they were not decapitated either. The Reign of Terror was nothing less than a descent into utter depravity and barbarism.

@Holly_Berry1225 3 ай бұрын

@@MariaMartinez-researcher France had absolute monarchy though. Britain deposed Louis XIV's cousin, James II, and the Constitutional Monarchy with powers transferred to Parliament was born in Britain; hence why the British Monarchy survived. It is called The Glorious Revolution. The Thirteen Colonies didn't merely have an issue with their king, but mainly with British Parliament ("taxation without representation" in Parliament for one). Parliament is where the decisions were being made, not like France where the king had absolute power. So there are major differences between the American Revolution and the French Revolution and between what the colonists and The French were fighting against aside from the obvious authority over them and freedom. America wanted to be its own country, involved in making the decisions that affected them; whereas The French were dealing with a totalitarian government in their own homeland. The British Monarchy remains because the power in large was taken from the monarch a long time ago. The American Bill of Rights is based upon the 1689 Bill of Rights in England courtesy of The Glorious Revolution of that time. That is almost 100 years before the American Revolution.

@luga718 2 ай бұрын

@AlanHigh-x4i Like all the revolutions!

@AlanHigh-x4i 4 ай бұрын

This was an act of utter depravity and barbarism.

@Holly_Berry1225 3 ай бұрын

It is but so were some of the things done to the poor and others by kings and queens, part of the reason for the anger towards them and the desire to get rid of any sort of tributes to them. if I remember correctly, Louis XVI gave the green light to implement the very method of execution that was used on him and Marie. I am not that familiar with the French Monarchy, but in Europe, monarchs have had people tortured, burned alive, beheaded, etc, and their bodies put on display sometimes for ridiculous things, so depravity meets depravity, I guess. If it was normal circumstances where a monarchy was voted out or something, they could have been re-interred in plain tombs, but that was a violent revolution rising from the suffering and anger of the French people. It is terrible.

@Byzantium1973 3 ай бұрын

Mon Dieu....C'est Encroyable.....⚜️☦️

@melindalopez3978 5 ай 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 5 ай бұрын

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

@Briselance 5 ай бұрын

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

@MMijdus 3 ай бұрын

They did not fear God anymore because they banned religion altogether. Even in the Notre Dame orgies took place! They put aside all moral sense.

@Holly_Berry1225 3 ай бұрын

Yes, you would also think that the supposed "God-Fearing" monarchs who ordered people's tortures, deaths, took people's land, taxed them, displayed the heads and headless bodies of the executed (some of whom were executed for ridiculous things), forced people to and fought many wars over greed with massive casualties, and caused much suffering among the poor and others would not have done any of those terrible things to people either.

@wolverineeagle 2 ай бұрын

@@Holly_Berry1225Guess what? Jacobins did the same damn thing. Desecrating graves is a form of cultural genocide.

@christineelsbury5479 8 күн бұрын

that is so sad. Now I know why my ancestors left. Sir Haydon did not deserve this

@1914AD 2 ай бұрын

Nice narrator voice!

@EvelynEdwards 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

@3John-Bishop Ай бұрын

@@EvelynEdwardsmy favorite queen is Eleanor of Aquitane. Any word on what her body looked like?

@zenjen1295 3 ай бұрын

"if it should be character, rather than accident, then that people are not fit for liberty, and must have a strong hand, like that of their former masters to coerce them. Men must have a certain fund of natural moderation to qualify them for freedom, else it becomes noxious to themselves, and a perfect nuisance to every body else." Edmond Burke