We are so blessed to have you back Signore Reeves! Truly it is an honor to listen to your lectures and you have brought to light so much of our subverted Christian history. Ben tornato! ⚡️☦️💛

All the most important things to me survived: The room itself, the glass and the Cavaille-Coll ORGAN! Like many, it's mostly a 19th century deal, but has elements (many pipes) that go back to the Gothic era. The smaller, newer choir organ didn't make it.

Dear Notre Dame - You are most in our hearts - I hope to go visit you one day

Greetings from England… So very very glad to see you back, shining a light in the current murky times! And yes please more about St.Denis…

Great to have you back on KZread. I wonder whether a wee video on the Celtic (Insular) Church of Ireland and Scotland and their saints could be done one day? Love to hear your thoughts on it. God bless.

@RyanReevesM

6 ай бұрын

I do always end up back there in my mind. I’m sure I will in time. Great suggestion.

There are some inaccuracies in this video, obviously its fine for laymen, however just a couple of points on 19th century restoration and pre-fire cathedral. - The old roof frame which burned in 2019, was nicknamed "The Forest" due to how massive and complex it was and that it contained approximately 1,000 oaks and chestnuts. Before the fire it was in fact for the most part original from the 13th century (dendrologically dated), save for the parts of the transept that were replaced in early 18th century (before the Revolution), and obviously the structural wooden frame of the spire. - Not all roof has been burned! Only the upper, central portion has burned down, the side portions on the side naves have survived entirely, and are also original. - Most of the "controversy" regarding Violet le Duc's 19th century restoration is overblown (particularly in English sources). His restoration was, by the standard of his time, extremely conservative and has been in fact one of the first effort to truly try to approach the restoration scientifically and historically. le Duc has written a couple of theses-worth papers on the original structure of Notre-Dame de Paris and how it must have originally looked. Even where he "invented" stuff, he was trying his best to match the aesthetics and the style of the original builders, and the result is a pretty harmonious stuff which pleases the eye greatly. - The Spire that Violet le Duc has rebuilt is very similar in fact to the old spire. It is slightly taller, and a tad more fancy than the original. We have no exact photos and drawings of the old spire unfortunately, the best is a realistic painting by Raguenet the Older, done in 1752. Old spire looked similar to the spire of Amiens Cathedral, which still exists. The internal frame for Violet le Duc's spire has been done by master carpenters of the Paris guild which survived in some form from the middle ages to this day. The frame was very well done, and is almost identical to other spires in structure. - Gargoyles are actually for the most part original from the Middle Ages! Violet le Duc has added some chimeras (non-functional beast statues) around the cathedral, but he only replaced epaired a couple of gargoyles.

@RyanReevesM

6 ай бұрын

-I didn't say the roof burned entirely. In the beginning I say nearly burned. But worth stressing your point for clarity. -It was a controversy for some. Matter if taste if it's overblown or not. Totally fine. -You're right about the spire. I overstated the point when describing the new one that was erected. -Gargoyles: every medieval historian I've read says otherwise especially those who are experts on Notre Dame. 🤷🏼‍♂️

@vaevictis3612

6 ай бұрын

@@RyanReevesM No worries I am not commenting to antagonize. The gargoyles are quite visible on the pre-restoration photos (before 1850), particularly at the attic eaves of the nave and transept facades. You can zoom in on the photos and compare to new photos. Now, not all gargoyles that you can see are actually real (and not even functional) gargoyles, especially around the west facade and towers. But most of them were around the sides of the nave, where they still exist now. Would you mind sharing the names of the Notre-Dame de Paris historians that say that all gargoyles are recreations? It would be interesting to see their sources if they have done some work on that.

@RyanReevesM

6 ай бұрын

@@vaevictis3612 // I've been a scholar a long time. And I have teenagers. You'd have to do a lot more to antagonize me. 🙃 I'll have to look into gargoyles more and ask a few experts. I'm curious to sort out why everyone says they're not original.

I just discovered your channel a few weeks ago, and I have to say, yours is the most comprehensive and unbiased recounting of history I have ever seen. Somehow your telling makes it interesting and lifelike. I have learned so much in such a short time! I'm so glad you came back to it! Well done, sir!!

Thank you so much! You made me want to be a medieval historian so all of this so helpful!

So glad to see you back! And thank you for another awesome lesson.

The descriptions I've read of Notre-Dame at the time of the wedding there of Mary Queen of Scots to the future Francis II sound absolutely spectacular.

It's a shame a lot of churches get burned down intentionally

@Pope_Balenciaga

6 ай бұрын

Varg Vikernes

@Mujangga

6 ай бұрын

It's a shame a lot of churches burned people intentionally.

@willgibbons1733

6 ай бұрын

@@Mujangga touché

@Yesica1993

6 ай бұрын

Christ haters know they cannot destroy Him, so they try to destroy a representation. Good thing He gets the last laugh, so to speak!

@frontenac5083

6 ай бұрын

And this has what to do with this video (supposing it's even true)?

Thanks Dr Reeves! Even though so much of the cathedral is modern, I’m glad for the remaining original structure. The dark ages were not so “dark” after all, and people need to see that.

I'm exited to learn about Notre dame when I get home!!❤

Glad you didn't let all the jackasses in the Halloween video comment section put you off doing more videos! Don't listen to their nonsense.

@RyanReevesM

6 ай бұрын

Haha. I'm used to it. Also, wait until I release videos on Christmas or flat earth.

These videos pair great with a cigar. Very calming and soothing while also intellectually stimulating.

Thanks for correcting the history of Notre Dame.

An outstanding walk through history!!😊

Can you imagine being the guy who had to explain to his boss he accidentally set one of the world's greatest cathedrals on fire?

@RyanReevesM

6 ай бұрын

"My bad"

@Window4503

6 ай бұрын

@@RyanReevesMlol or “mea culpa”

@spudspuddy

6 ай бұрын

deliberate, no accident, all the immigrants cheering proved that

Great video. So glad to see you are back!

So wonderful to have you back! Your work has been a blessing to us all. Such a great teacher you are!!

I was able to visit the cathedral in 2017. ❤ Thank you for this history lesson!

Loving the new content. This was great and I definitely learned some things. Thank you!

He's back! Glory to God!

Great video!! Thank you 😊

I’m glad to see you back I love history

Very informative, thanks 🙏

Thank you sir for all your contributions. (It may be just me, but when I get involved in a person's writings, art, etc., I like to get to know the person at least on a superficial level, like knowing Van Gogh, the painter. You have published info on your professional education and work, but I do not find you revealing anything about the person, particularly early life and what contributed to molding you as a developed mature man. ) During my USArmy Master Planning during the war in Kosovo in Germany, I was able to give friends a personal tour of Notre Dame in 1997 (I had majored in late 1970s in Architecture History, Preservation and Design in Achitecture School and my thesis was a critical analysis and comparison of Chartres and Notre Dame). I was terribly hurt to see it burning. Hollywood has never outdone European Theater of Romanesque, Gothic and Islamic Religious Architecture and fine art in it capturing and motivating/manipulating the human spirit and emotion. Personally I generally find Hollywood to be very weak, trite, boring, and low art, but like the religious architecture Hollywood art was devised to serve the very wealthy and the very poor, ignorant and weak minded. It's not for the strong minded, educated and independent thinker. Thanks again.

So happy you are back making great, educational and interesting content! I cant watch the vid right now (at work) but it is next on my list!

Loved this!

Thank you. I found this most interesting.

Thank you Dr Reeves.

Great video.

Thank you for this Vidieo !

Welcome back!

Wonderful! Thank you

Thank you for presenting this excellent video. Great job! Love from Trailer Park USA

Hey, the bishop in question at Napoleon's coronation was the bishop of Rome, Pope Pius VII. ---fun factoid.

Regardless of the historical ignorance of those opposed to a modernization, it is clearly a rejection of contemporary the brtualist and minimalist nature of modern architecture. I think a large part of the population really hates the way our cities look and long for a time when architecture had real beauty. So while the parts that burned down may have been modern, they were inspired by ancient beauty, and that is what they want to keep.

@Yesica1993

6 ай бұрын

Well said.

Thank you for this video! It's timing is uncanny, because my wife and I have booked a trip to Paris in 2024! I so hope we can see Notre Dame!

Thanks, so much!!

Also check out *Perspective* for more awesome history. Ryan , so glad you're back!!!!

Reeve's back. Always can't for new content.

Thank you

Thank you Ryan Reeves for this very informative video. So much of society history is in church buildings. Could you do more videos about other churches? “O Fortuna”!

A good video overall. I did enjoy it. However, you misinterpreted why the French were so angry about the proposed modern renovations to Notre Dame. They weren't fighting to have Notre Dame restored to its middle-age condition. They were fighting to have Notre Dame restored to its original condition before the fire of 2019, there's a big difference there. Many French know that the gargoyles and the wooden spire did not exist in the middle-ages, but I think they just like them there, they've grown on the French people. And its probably because of Victor Hugo, as you very rightly pointed out. Thank you for the video.

It's so good to have you back, Mr Reeves! You really do a great favor to our age by telling a truly christian history of the Church. I'd like to suggest you to do videos of the communist persecution of christians in the Soviet Union and other eastern european nations. Maybe something about the relationship between marxism and christianity as a whole. I think this is a negleted theme in Church Historiography. Something about the impact of Saint Francis of Assisi in the medieval church would be great too.

I've wanted to read Hunchback for a while. Not sure if it's worth it. Les Miserables drove me insane with the detailed descriptions and histories of this and that. (Though I did still enjoy it.) But I think I wouldn't mind hearing him yammer on about Notre Dame. Maybe.

cheers mate

Kilometer Zero IS Notre Dame; all points in France are measured from the plaque on the ground directly in front, making her the literal Heart of France

Man I want to take a class with this brother

Viva La France! Long live Our Lady of Paris! 💙💜

Have you seen the Lindsey Ellis Hunchback video? Or is losing to a bird just that iconic

Well, that was all interesting.

"She gave me water" :)

Fantastic so glad my husband suggested this

Dr. Reeves, where did you see the reopening date for Notre Dame? Everything I'm seeing online says it'll reopen in December 2024. I'm wondering if you have some more up-to-date information than what I'm seeing?

@RyanReevesM

6 ай бұрын

I'm quoting the Te Deum they are planning but I see the opening to the public fully is pushed back to December. Good catch

Ryan, why have you not made a video on William Tyndale?!!??!?!

@RyanReevesM

6 ай бұрын

One day….one day

Yes, I didn't realize Napoleon’s coronation took place but we cannot forget about the Hunchback; the only reason I'm aware of the building's existence aside from the fire.

We visited Notre Dame in 1991. I have hundreds of photos.

Chartres next please

@RyanReevesM

6 ай бұрын

Chartres is amazing. It's on the to do list

Do not modernize!! Thank you so much, Dr. Reeves! It's one of the places I want to visit.

Please do a lecture on Nostradamus

Awesome history lesson! Been there many times... Would LOVE to see your insight on St Denis. For me, St Denis was a recent accidental discovery. Went I went in, I had no idea it was the final resting place of the kings of France (at least the bodies they could find...!)

@dolinaj1

6 ай бұрын

You need more history lectures. For centuries, only the heart of each king was enshrined at St Denis.

Sanctuary! Sanctuary!

If ever there was a time to believe in the power of prayer, this wasn't one of them!

Hey Ryan… I’m very interested in knowing how the church was in Spain in the 1500’s and how they sailed over to conquer Mexico and brought Catholicism there. Do you have any videos of that?

@RyanReevesM

6 ай бұрын

Not yet. Would be a good series

@palabraviva5840

6 ай бұрын

@@RyanReevesMthat would be great! I’m a missionary in Mexico, been here for 12 years and it’s wild to see the effect it has had here. I know some of the story but would love to learn more. It seems like all the talk among the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant church and the history of both that there is very little talk of Mexico and how the Spaniards brought Catholicism there/ here. Seems like it’s left out

@palabraviva5840

6 ай бұрын

Love your videos by the way!

How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe | Diana Darke Christopher Wren He wrote, "the Gothic style should be more rightly called the Saracen style" (note, the word 'Saracen' has dropped from our vocabulary, but in Wren's time it was commonly used as a pejorative term to describe Arab Muslims, particularly Spanish-Arab Muslims).

Flying buttresses are in essence a failure of engineering prowess. The competence of engineers was put to task and they realized that they could not make such a large building(s) without the excess building supplies. This incompetence as compared to the competence of Roman engineering and architecture, hence a prominent park of dark age and middle age building while relearning to be competent.

"... un fou qui se prenait pour Victor Hugo."

The island looks like a yam

For me the most interesting thing about the cathedral is how €1bn will be spent on stone, glass and timber while little kids in city slums have no clean water, enough to eat or a proper education. Not very Christian is it?

With the passing of time, everything that is now "new" eventually becomes "old." Or, "classic", in the most general sense of that word. The contrast should not be new vs. old. The contrast is beauty vs. ugliness. And while there's some subjectivity to that, you can't look at a building like this and then look at a modern building that looks like a sterile box and not acknowledge one is objectively more beautiful than the other. The same is true with all art. Is there some subjectivity? Sure. But we can't compare a work by Michelangelo with some of this "modern art" that looks like a toddler's finger painting project and say they are equal in beauty. Even those who know nothing formal about art as a discipline can see that they are not. Maybe they can't fully put it into words. But they can tell the difference.

@frontenac5083

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, if you compare great artists from the past with crap artists from the present, obviously the former will look better. But if you do the opposite and compare crap artists from the past (and there were a _lot_ of these) with great artists from our time (granted, not so numerous, but this is true for any period in history: masters are always a rarity), the reverse will be true. Funnily enough, though, those who have an agenda against modern art and who almost always have no artistic education whatsoever (hating modern art per se and in its entirety is almost always the sign that someone is artistically illiterate) rarely, if ever do the second type of comparison.

i'm not french but i cried when it was set on fire, watching the immigrants cheering is when the french should have deported all immigrants straight away

I read that President Macron promised Pope Francis that Notre Dame would by completed by 2024.

you need to tune your microphone, we need the old voice back.

We all know how that fire started

@donthasselthehoff5753

6 ай бұрын

It has been confirmed countless times by Parisian officials that the fire wasn't intentional. But I guess no amount of evidence will sway racist brain rot.

@ProfesserLuigi

6 ай бұрын

It was satan all along.

@soniak2865

6 ай бұрын

and yet, she stands

@Yesica1993

6 ай бұрын

I would like to see that information. @@donthasselthehoff5753

@frontenac5083

6 ай бұрын

🤡🤡🤡🤡

That fire was JIHAD

@Pope_Balenciaga

6 ай бұрын

Source?

@Yesica1993

6 ай бұрын

Given the situation of this death cult that has nearly overtaken France, that was my first theory. But I haven't looked into it to see if there's conclusive evidence. I am very open to the possibility of an accident. It does happen. If this happens again after it reopens, that will go a long way to confirmation. But let's face it. Even if a j i h a d i s t torches it, on camera, and admits to doing it as j i h a d, while holding the Q. in his hand, people will STILL deny it!

@frontenac5083

6 ай бұрын

*M0R0N*

@frontenac5083

6 ай бұрын

His own backside. @@Pope_Balenciaga

@frontenac5083

6 ай бұрын

🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

#Quasimodo

They will rebuild in the post modern style. As they should - so people never forget how ugly our current paradigm is.

I'm not trying to be Beyonce

And now it's gone. It doesn't matter if they build another.

@Poisson4147

Ай бұрын

Not completely gone. The roof and parts of the interior were destroyed but the walls still stood. Notre Dame is a tough lady!

@dorothywillis1

Ай бұрын

@@Poisson4147 But what's gone is gone, and I don't trust the people in charge to choose a repair design I like. Just look at that awful glass pyramid!

@Poisson4147

Ай бұрын

@@dorothywillis1 AFAIK they're making every effort to recreate what was there before*. That horrid pyramid apparently convinced people that mixing new and old isn't such a good idea. In any case repairs are expected to be completed by the end of 2024 or early 2025. Si vous parlez Français, je suis sûr qu'il y a beaucoup de sites français comme RFI, France24, etc. avec plus de détails. (*) There's also the stumbling block that this isn't the first time that Notre Dame has been "repaired" in the past. What we're looking at today isn't 100% original either. Part of my family traces its roots to Germany so we followed restoration efforts after the DDR collapsed. There were MASSIVE debates over which and whether the "fixes" made by the communist government should be reversed, and if so, to what extent. OK, that's a lot more extreme than what kind of carpentry should be used for N-D's roof, but it shows just how complex the issues can be.

Deportations

Long history of 20 minutes

To think it will inevitably become a mosque is very sad.

That spire is an abomination to the lines of the rest of the cathedral.

@gloriamontgomery6900

5 ай бұрын

I’ve been there. It just looked awful and out of place.

Given the nature incompetence and ugliness of modern architecture it’s better to simply rebuild as was and forget about the fire. It’s best not to add the trivial forgettable things of the “modern” world on the cathedral’s continuing journey.

Thank you for this video. The devastation Notre Dame received at the hands of elites reminds me of our modern times. There is hope we will come out of this time, too. 🙏🏻