American Reacts to France's Sacred Treasures: Unveiling Les Trésors de l'Art Sacré!

[@yoda2661]

I'll translate a bit for you, at 44:30, it is said that "it is the biggest royal necropolis in Europe, and since Dagobert to Louis 18th that Necropolis contains 42 kings, 32 queens, and 63 princes and princesses rests in tombs that are stunning beauties." (around 44:50) as the one for François 1st in a realistic style in real size" 45:30 "One of them is particulary touching, the one for Louix 12, and Anne of Britain." About the organ near the end, she said that it's still possible to find a few pieces of it that are still original from the medieval era, but yes, most of them were restored and then are not original parts. Translations are pretty random obviously. There are a lot of misunderstood from the YT robot translator or whatever.

[@thibaultmessac2014]

looking forward to have you in France, really hope one day you will make a video of your trip! take care

[@cynthiagauthier8897]

For the "man in the wheel" painting : " The breaking wheel, also known as the execution wheel, the Wheel of Catherine or the (Saint) Catherine('s) Wheel, was a torture method used for public execution primarily in Europe from antiquity through the Middle Ages up to the 19th century by breaking the bones of a criminal or bludgeoning them to death. " see Wikipedia.

[@thesparebox9511]

You are right about the translations, many words are word to word, some are only translated by the similarity of sounds. A king called Le Gros is translated by l'euro.

[@cynthiagauthier8897]

I am an atheist and I do appreciate sacred arts for their beauty without forgetting all the pain religions can cause. This is History ! Thanks for sharing and learning with us. :)

[@mhenoussene]

you know christians were persecuted, tortured and killed for centuries right?

[@s.kertanguy8433]

In french Art includes, buildings, windows, statues, even floors, furniture etc. The Sixtine Chapel is in Rome ( Italie) .

[@Thunderworks]

Sistine Chapel is in Vatican City, which is not in Italy, it's an independent state.

[@s.kertanguy8433]

Sixtine.

[@glambertini4709]

A beautiful documentary that I hadn't seen. Thanks for the reaction!

[@marieadriansen2925]

It's a very interesting documentary that I saw a long time ago on French television, but I had forgotten a lot of things! Thank you for sharing it again

[@priscillaannemaurit9435]

The most important part of the French coronation ceremony was not the coronation itself, but the sacrament - the anointing of the king's body with holy oil. This was what differentiated the coronation of kings in France from a simple coronation, the placing of the crown on the monarch's head being the most important ritual in other kingdoms, unlike France. Miraculous oil was said to have anointed Clovis and to have been brought down from heaven by a dove; from 1027 onwards, it was used to anoint all Frankish kings, then kings of France, at their coronation, this legitimizing their power by divine right.

[@jacquesdemolay2699]

@01:18:00 this is the chapel in Versailles - was the last building to be made by same architect

[@marieadriansen2925]

I am French. I am an atheist but I am deeply humanist (and I respect the religious). I think that the Christian religion has had a positive influence on our society and has brought humanism. Throughout Europe, in the eighteenth century, the clergy committed many excesses, they did not practice at all what they taught, they grew rich while the people were dying of hunger. This is why the French Revolution confiscated the property of the church, which gradually led to the demolition of the abbey. This video interests me a lot because it's history and it teaches us a lot of things (it's the history of Western civilization)

[@bebopmugen7001]

Et vous ne parlez pas français.

[@marieadriansen2925]

@@bebopmugen7001 Je parle anglais pour que Charlie et d'autres personnes puissent comprendre

[@maryseelie8887]

Et malheureusement ça n a pas beaucoup changé...faite ce que je dit,mais ne faite pas je que je fais...

[@aceathor]

I am French, I am 40 years old and I have only been to Paris 3 times, twice to go to court, and once to visit. And I forgot a fourth time for 2 hours for a train connection.

[@jacquesdemolay2699]

the light show is to demonstrate how they look like when they were painted in medieval times.

[@Fed47]

8:30 Viollet le duc inventeur des gargouilles? ah je croyais qu'il avait créé les chiméres mais que les gargouilles étaient du Moyen Age?

[@gerselinde]

Vous avez raison. Les premières gargouilles sont apparues vers 1220 sur certaines parties de la cathédrale de Laon. Puis elles se sont multipliées pour accroître les voies d'évacuation et sont devenues plus longues et fines. Elles ont pris un aspect plus décoratif et se sont répandues au milieu du siècle. On en trouve en 1225 à Notre-Dame de Paris sur les corniches supérieures ainsi qu'à la Sainte-Chapelle, construite dans la décennie 1240.

[@aceathor]

1:08:26 It's not "Boon" but " Beaune " My town !

[@martinquessandier3282]

Bah ça va l'aider ça! 😂😂😂 Écrit comme ça en anglais ça peut se prononcer Bi-ou-ni. Quoique c'est rigolo 😂

[@kortexounet]

17:00 It's a tough question, but it's a combantion of multiple things :I guess red pigments were simply more resistant to time than other pigments, but you also have to remember that what is red now was maybe not red back then, alteration may have causes others colors to turn into red / orange shades over time, because it was chemically transformed by mixing with other elements present in the air.

[@bessonnet]

The chapel, decorated by the painter Matisse) at 1:44:00 is in vence (south of France)

[@EmiledeWeerd]

Blue pigments were very expensive (based on lapilazuli) and thus the blue color slowly associated to royalty for instance.

[@jacquesdemolay2699]

she said "SOME" of the parts are medieval and mostly renovated.

[@heretik8916]

Hello, thank you for your interest in French culture. For the crown of thorns the King of France St Louis spent half the kingdom's annual income. So either it's a good move for St. Louis or it's the biggest scam in history. St Louis roof is in his name he was a pious king who did a lot for the kingdom. A good King

[@bernsarda]

Amérique en quête de racines ! Bien venu !

[@bessonnet]

The anointing with the oil symbolizes the descent of the Holy Spirit that penetrates beings, as oil deeply permeates what it touches.

[@thesparebox9511]

For the last part, the Mathis painter in VENCE. The translation is wrong. The name of the place "Vence" has been translated by advance instead of at Vence. You can of course check on Google earth were all these places are. Most of the time there is no confusion with names/ area/country 👍🏻

[@jacquesdemolay2699]

it's a Jaggin - a fire-throwing Jaggin.

[@lionelschmitt6657]

This report shows Notre Dame (Paris) soiled by centuries of occupation. A one-minute video has just been uploaded showing it fully restored : kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6bXgHuHrtCefqs

[@peronik349]

the channel "l'ombre d'un doute" (the shadow of a doubt) is a French TV show about History. Driven by their religious faith, men and women can build wonders, if the Christian West has a large number of sites like these, the world is full of equally magnificent sites built to honor a religious faith

[@martinquessandier3282]

1:25:46 Nothing is in marble, it's limestone

[@huormartin9501]

Thank you for sharing the french treasures to american people ! have you ever been in France ? if not, i hope u will enjoy a trip in our wonderful country soon !

[@jacquesdemolay2699]

Just a little note: all the food you eat is grown onto what you call "DIRT" but here we call it "SOIL" it sounds less disgusting. :)

[@PierreRipplinger]

The translator mistook "qu'on est moine ou moiniale" for "con est moine ou moniale".

[@EmiledeWeerd]

Sistine chapel is in Vatican City.

[@pascalpesce4806]

an abbey is the building created and used in a monastery lead by an abbot. A church is the building created and used in the villages and the cities for all folks. The cathedral is the building created for and used by the bishop. The name cathedral come from the bishop's seat : the cathery.

[@aceathor]

1:39:01 She never said " idiot "

[@Douddle]

Pretty good french pronunciation 🙌

[@Jean-Denis_R_R_Loret]

8:50: As a french viewer,, it could be confusing for english speakers, and certainly other languages speakers, let me add my grain of salt in regard of everyday's french (and quite whacky subtitles here and there, but it's mostly ok), "in the years 50" pretty badly translated from "dans les années 50". In nowadays' french, it's common to drop the century when refering to a year or a decade, when refering to events youger than one century, "dans les années 50" refers to "during the 1950's", and just because it happened less than 100 years ago, we don't need to be specific on the century, it's implicit since it's not even mentioned, and much shorter to say, and to add to the confusion, some ppls will say the 19xx part in a way, and some in an other way (equivalent to english's "one thousand nine hundred..." and "nineteen hundred..." ). For events more than one century old, we don't bother to write the year with 4 digits, but when less than one century, we usualy just write the last 2 digits. It's the same for birth dates, in french I'll say that I'm born in '85, because it's obvious I didn't born in 1885, neither 2085 for obvious reasons. For administrative forms, or when writing, we use the regular 4 digits format, because it's way shorter to write than to say and leaves zero chance for mistakes (you really don't want to mess up an administrative form in France, and have it rejected and have to restart all from the begining and wait for months just because you want to speedrun a form and buy barely 0.5s...). But when speaking, it's very unlikely to make the confusion with years from the Ist century because of the context. But since 2000, it's not true anymore for recent years, we won't refer to "during the 2010's" by "dans les années 10" but "dans les années 2010", we never say that because it could be confused with the 1910's decade, and it's likely to last at least for the fisrt half of the XXIst century, the chances are it'll stick for much longer. So for now, everytime you see a year mentioned in french with 2 digits only, you're 100% sure it refers to the XXth century, not the XIXth, neither before, neither the XXIst century.

[@jeanmichel2642]

some translation mistakes are hilarious. in Chartres they translated "saint" by "breast" ! in french phonetically "seins" (breast) = "saint"

[@retropaganda8442]

Google's translation technology is so low quality 😢

[@erwanquemener8856]

23:57 She's saying it was destroyed during the revolution.

[@s.kertanguy8433]

What Happened ? We had the Revolution that destroyed a lot.

[@gillessotty8156]

Magnifique, merci de France...

[@thesparebox9511]

Congratulations for your commented videos. It shows that there are few Americans that tries to understand that the rest of the world exists without the filter of your eternal collection of superlatives. 👍🏻

[@drekruizinga8696]

16th chapel is in the Vatican. (Sitine)

[@dominiquelyoen7535]

sixtine

[@LOLOVAL-os3pq]

We're talking to you about France here, what's in this story that you don't understand???? It's the Sistine Chapel of Romanesque art! You don't understand, we're talking about Romanesque art in France at this point in the video, what are you pissing us off about Italy!!

[@LOLOVAL-os3pq]

Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe : la Sixtine romane

[@Nicolas-io5hj]

SIXTINE !!!!!

[@martineallemann-hf9fh]

Très joli voyage merci infiniment ❤

[@corpusarmatae8541]

What's funny to consider here, is the fact most kings are presented as so pious, they went and prayed multiple times a day and all that. So if we were to take into account the logistics of all that, between the obvious lack of activity at night for obvious reasons in the medieval era, the time it'd take for transport to and from churches, it wouldn't let much time left to their royal activities now, would it ? Makes you realize kings didn't actually hold much power, for real, since most stuff obviously wasn't even done by them to begin with. Since they were busy pretending to be such religious icons.

[@aceathor]

Subtitle are auto-generated in live, when there is loud music and sound it don't understand.

[@EmiledeWeerd]

cluny was disconstructed at the time of the Revolution (against the kings), end of 18th century

[@bessonnet]

In the churches : there are not hotels but autels. Translation is wrong

[@lampjerulez]

Hey charlie i got a great vieo content idea for you, youtube shorts made by americans tha they claim the video is made in europe. I literally saw a video today where a insurance scammer hit another car, and then the text in the video said it was British... fun fact.. all the cars drove on the RIGHT (they drive left in U.K.) and the number plate was american. However every freaking comment was obviously thinking it was from the UK because there where even discussion how much british pound it would have made them. But insurance companies dont pay persons themselves over here in (most) EU countries. they pay the bills for you, you send the garage bill to the company and they refund to the garage not to your own bank account XD so its basically impossible to scam people this way

[@magict01]

Colors fade mostly due to ultraviolet radiation over the years

[@PierreRipplinger]

TIL Henri Matisse was 80 euros old.

[@cedricmatos2329]

1:31:06 the purpose of anointing with oil : Application d'huile sainte sur une personne pour la consacrer à Dieu, le mot Christ viens du grec (khristós) et signifie "messie", c'est la traduction du mot en hebreux qui signifie "oint" L'oint du Seigneur, celui qui, par l'onction, a reçu de Dieu une autorité sacrée. Application of holy oil on a person to consecrate them to God, the word Christ comes from Greek (khristós) and means “messiah”, this is the translation of the Hebrew word meaning "anointed" The Lord's anointed, the one who, through anointing, has received sacred authority from God. Après Clovis, 1260 jours sont passés.

[@nicfit9928]

Cluny was destroyed during the French revolution

[@elpis_ezechiel]

Hi, I'm a French linguist and translator. If you ever need or want some help with understanding French, I could do some things for you. Translating some videos, in writing / subtitles or with oral explanations. I'd do it for free for you 'cause I like your vibe.

[@Preyfr60]

0:27 You could have said that worse. I'd give you a 6/10 on french pronunciation. :)

[@jacquesdemolay2699]

Cannot judge Medieval time France with same parameters as modern USA - mindset was entirely different. the artifacts were authentic -- you should check the crusades. The Christ thorn crown has been brought back to France by king Louis IX (aka Saint Louis) in 1239. at that time the crown was kept in Constantinople - and it was recognised that the risk to fall in bad hands (Saracens' hands) was too great to be risked - King Louis purchased it from there and brought it back to France - quite naturally, kept in the mother of all cathedral called Notre-Dame de Paris.

[@SteamboatW]

The Sistine (16th) Chapel is in Rome, Vatican City (Inside Italy)

[@psykocrypto4442]

they tell us that is the french sixtine of romanesque...witch is in france....The real sixtine is in Italy for sure

[@19Edurne]

1:15:22 The reason subtitles keep breaking is because of the loud "background" music. Translation can't make out the words, so no subs.

[@edding3000fr]

il l'ont refaite à neuf l'a Cathédrale de Paris, après l'incendie il y'a 5 ans !

[@eugenieponleve667]

Seules la couverture et la flèche ont été reconstruites;visiblement vous n'habitez pas Paris ou vous l'auriez vue,debout,durant ces cinq ans.

[@kolerick]

colors: until some discovery and "modern" chemistry, some pigment were rare and/or very expensive... like the blue... some artists who were experimenting to create pigments or were using "secret recipes" ended with a bad case of burning when accused of sorcery (they were the alchemists of old) about the big Abbey that had towers removed, it was deconstructed, (not demolished) during the French revolution... to put it simply, the Catholic church had pushed very far its control of the citizens and was levying taxes that made some very wealthy... in a time when misery exploded thanks to some volcanic event that made the climate cold and dark for 2 years, the inequality made peoples resentful against most of the wealthy peoples... side note, not all the nobles or the churches were wealthy, but they did put forward an image of being so, so they were almost all targeted...

[@ALAINGONZALES]

love the subtitle , Louis 6 le Gros ( the fat ) becomes Louis 6 l'euro ( the EURO ) During the revolution, the nobility were not the only part of the state that was considered as anti revolutionary, the clergy had not only more than 1 third of all the land in France but also had the dime, a tax of 10% that every county had to give to the church, this dime was often used to uphold and enrich the church more than to go to charity. The idea that God rules over all man was very much associated to monarchy so in essence it was anti revolutionary, So during the terror all the clergy's privileges and land were taken away. many holy places were destroyed, looted and quite a number of priests were killed or forced to denounce their faith. an era of dechristianization started and Catholicism was no longer the state religion Notre dame de Paris was rebaptised ( no pun intended ) into Notre dame of reason by the commune and religion was portrayed as being fanatical and fake, the bishop of Paris and his vicars had to abjure lay down their priest documents the 9 th November 1793 - 20 Brumaire of year 1 of the revolution ( yes a new calendar was made just for the revolution ) - a feast of liberty was performed in the notre dame cathedral, religion was mocked and ridiculed by the people of Paris and dancers and artists under the statues of Rousseau , Voltaire and Franklin So that's why the Cluny abbey was destroyed as many others, It's funny how 231 years later France celebrates the reconstruction of Notre dame like it's a sacred thing when the same city nearly burnt it down in 1793 and even transformed it into a market for a while

[@shantyshin383]

Interesting reaction :) Just a thought about the start of the video : why pronounce anything bad knowingly and shame yourself about it afterwards when google translate can do it right for you? Want to hear it or try to pronounce it right? Use GT to pronounce it for you and take your shot at it after the fabulous tool your own people invented partially for that very purpose did its job. There is no perfect way for any average people with another native speaking language to put up a good written pronounciation guide because the languages are to different. A simple example : the french "ee" sound is just the letter "i", when for you, this simple letter is naturally is the same as the word "eye" (in the alphabet, but not in "police" nor in "critic" nor in so much words that it makes absolutely no sense and is extremely confusing for an average french native speaker). Really, it's not a shaming comment I make here, I just can't fathom why nobody think about that when it's just so obvious...

[@DrChookyOups]

Christianity did not directly cause the fall of the Roman Empire, but it significantly transformed the Empire, altering its religious, cultural, and political structures. While the Roman Empire did experience a decline starting in the 4th century, this decline was due to a combination of internal factors (economic decline, political instability) and external factors (barbarian invasions). Christianity was part of this process of transformation, but it cannot be considered the sole cause of the fall.

[@ryandeschanel6925]

Those pigments were the easiest, perhaps the only, ones to get. Monks live in a monastery, and the monastery's private church is an abbey. The guy in a wheel is a saint being murdered. 1:21:45 The retable was moved to a safer location for preservation. Less light, dry airtight window... Gargoyles spit out rainwater. Otherwise, they are grotesques ("chimères" in French (chimeras)). The cathedral is made of sandstone, not marble. The anointment was a tradition from Israeli Kings. It makes the king sacred. That's the most important part of the coronation.

[@beowulfaegirsson4362]

No, Christianity didn't bring the downfall of the Roman Empire, it was 1st persecuted as a kind of superstition against legal Gods of Rome, but it spread so much in spite of persecutions that Constantin decided to adopt it as official State religion of Rome in order to give a common ideology to a very multi ethnical empire that ned a cement to last. And when finally the Empire collapsed by lack of financial resources to ensure its defense and attacked on all the fronts, the Church Institution remained the surviving backbone of the Roman Empire inside the newly birthing nations of Europe who claimed the heritage of Rome as a continuity. France was considered as the Elder daughter of the Church because Charlemagne had saved the Pope from the Lombards yoke. And the Franks built a new Empire in Continental Western Europe because they introduced themselves as the heirs of Rome abiding by the catholic rules and considering the former citizen of the Roman Empire as their equals while other Barbarians like the Goths dominated the former citizen of Rome like inferior subjects. So Francia became the place to be, because it was following through the Christian faith the heritage of Rome and because the Franks defeated the Huns, Avars and other foreign people who had for a long period threatened the very existence of the old Empire created by Rome. in 451 Ad in the Champagne region (Catalaunian plains) a multi ethnic Army made of Romans, Wisigoths, Franks (Allied = Foederati) and others defeated Attila and the Huns. Martin was a Roman legionary who shared his coat with a poor guy on the road, he was an example of piety during very hard times, he became the major Saint of Gaulles that were not yet France. The starndadized model with a Church in every village was implemented in Gaulles more than elsewhere because the Franks were the only German barbarians to adopt the catholic faith (the Goths choosed Arianism to remain the dominant military cast over the former citizen of Rome) in order to rule with the support of the former Roman citizen who also became Franks and later French. This model was 1st implemented in France because it was the heart of Western Christianity before any other country were the former rule of Rome had collapsed, while the Franks were the 1st to pretend being the complete heirs of Rome till submitting themselves to the Church authority, reason why churches recovered every major pagan cults in various locations by basilics and cathedrals like Notre Dame in Paris covering a former pagan temple on the City Island.What seems obvious to you today had been initiated in France, and England who pretends to be different from the rest of Europe just followed the Frankish evolution. Charlemagne led terrible wars during 30 years against the German Saxons to force them to adopt Christianity and to assimilate them inside the Empire he built. Without that Europe wouldn't have had this religious unity and could have adopted other religions. Slavic people developed their kingdoms and the Orthodox faith later copying the remaining part of Rome in the East with Byzantium.

[@GunnarWareman]

The thorns of Christ were made from the branches of a plant (Euphorbia Milii) that we know today as 'Christ's thorn'. I assume the plant was not made of gold at the time, so this must not have been the original wreath?

[@Elisebeth1979]

Yep

[@wiiza650]

the gold you see is just the protection. you can see the crown under the gold protection

[@glambertini4709]

What we mainly see is its very luxurious protection, in goldwork and precious stones. We can see a little through the Crown of Thorns. Is it the real one? Impossible to know, King Saint Louis thought so, he emptied the coffers of the Kingdom of France to buy it. But there are so many more or less authentic relics linked to Christ which circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages...

[@jfrancobelge]

@@glambertini4709 "More or less authentic". Rather more than less; most, if not all, relics of Christ that can now be seen in churches worldwide are fakes, sold by medieval crooks to gullible devout pilgrims (including Louis IX). It's all a question of faith. Examinations of many relics by modern science has proved that most of them date back to centuries way after the time of Christ.

[@jfrancobelge]

I mean "rather less than more"...

[@olivierleluduec2609]

Hello All

[@Elisebeth1979]

The Thorn crown of Jesus Christ

[@jacquesdemolay2699]

do not make your education from comment - I direct you to better places like Wikipedia or online encyclopedias

[@etiennegros4306]

Roman empire last until thé 15 een century with thé fall of Constantinople

[@didierlemoine6771]

religion is a big business too for sure :)

[@thesparebox9511]

The chapel of king Louis 14 is built in Versaille is just outside at the right oc the main entrance en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapels_of_Versailles

[@johnvonundzu2170]

"In the years 50" here means "the 1950s", not 50 years old. St Denis is not a cathedral, as it's within the diocese of the archbishop at Notre Dame. Only one "cathedral" per diocese, all its other churches are considered to be of lower rank. My grandfather claimed he had been shown two skulls of St Peter, in the same church, one of Peter as a boy & one of him as a man. Genuine? I have my doubts.