Live from Paris – 800 years of Saint Eustache

Join me Sunday from Paris and the Eglise Saint Eustache that is celebrating its 800th anniversary.

Nestled in what was once called the Belly of Paris by Emile Zola is the Gothic masterpiece Saint Eustache.

The current church was built between 1532 to 1632. A church stood in the same place that was built from 1213 to 1224 and dedicated to Sainte Agnes until 1303 when it was rededicated to Saint Eustache. The martyred saint who died in 118 AD once had a vision of a stag with a crucifix placed in his antlers that spoke to him.

Today the 16th century facade has been finally restored and inside the church is filled with treasures dating back to the Renaissance to today.

Join me live from Saint Eustache where we will share all the lovely treasures inside and out.

Live from Paris, Sunday, February 4, 2024

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Bonjour bonjour everybody from Paris Sunday evening right outside of santach gorgeous Church give everybody a minute to get in here as I’m in hailing the lovely smell of fish they right outside the church here as you know this is Leal this area so it used to be the what was called the belly

Of Paris by Emil Zola and so this is where they had the huge markets where everybody would come and get food for the restaurants for the homes everything and right when I came here today they were just taking apart the the Open Air Market that went down the street on room

M and right about here is I think where they had The Fish Guy set up and it is Rip let me tell you but they have cleaned it up so we will jump in because there’s a lot to show you today and I’m hoping we get back into the church because it is

This weekend why I picked this today is because it is the 800th anniversary of the Santas church and this is what they are um celebrating this weekend so it was in 12:23 that the St Agnes church that once stood here was open so 800 years ago and

So they picked this weekend um to celebrate that and there’s been all sorts of events there was a theater performance on Friday night yesterday there were some tours there was a puppet show theater event and then today there was like a cocktail mixer which I did

Not see um and then there is a concert going on right now until 4:30 p.m. and when I I was in there for the first 45 minutes of it it was really amazing and I’ll post some videos afterwards but um when I left it was basically when one

Person comes out of the church one person can go in because it’s so crowded so I’m hoping that we will be cruise around the outside here for about a half an hour and then head inside um and hopefully that is going to work so we

Will jump in so I am out here on the kind of the north side of the church and you can see down this little alley right there which is the impass S stash you can see The North Door of the church and kind of the the transcept so this church

Doesn’t technically really have a transcept in the in the sense that like a sansu pce or notredam does but it is really amazing and santu stash was a saint that had a vision of a deer with a crucifix in his antlers and and if you

Look way up here let’s see if I could get in here I could get in all the way I might not be able to see it very well you guys see that so it’s up there it’s on top of each of the little Pinnacle parts of the

Church on the north and south side where you could see that and this church is not only is it Renaissance style but it is also Romanesque style it’s a little amalgamation of a lot of things and it was Mr u v luk who I adore who did notredam in the 19th century he

Criticized this church because it just it didn’t really have one certain style and the Architects over time kind of just were practicing and playing and having a good time with it what I love about that Rose window is the hearts that are in there and that

Is they did that on purpose but I love that and you’ll see them on the other side of the church as well this door um that’s not open to the public to this this weekend um on either side of it and I’ll kind of go in there a little bit uh

But you can see two of my favorites the patron saints of Paris I’m on this side they’re loading out I think the S of some of the equipment that they’ve been using this weekend but on the right side of the door up there you see guarding the door on the right is s

Den over there and then if we could get here a little bit you could see hopefully you could see her my girl look at this she so she is right back here so you can see her on the side on the left is son Viv and on the right is

Anony and then that window there is the nunciation so you could actually kind of see it a little bit on the back but it is a really amazing church so the whole back part of the church when we go on the other side I’ll show you um that was

The original Church of St Agnes and then it was fra Premier one of my favorites that decided that he wanted to have a church a new church built and he wanted to have this be like his kind of glory and have all the things that he really loved on this

Church and it changed the name to S stash which was basically right when it opened 800 years ago because they ended up having a relic of sant stash and uh there was held at uh the Basel s that’s up in the north of of uh P Paris and

Then they changed it and moved the relics of s stach down here to this church and so they renamed it to santu stash but and there’s three things there only three things in the church that remain from that original church one of which you can’t see because it’s in the CP

Down below but there’s two things in the church that hopefully I could show you so here is the rour and look I love the old street sign behind that but there’s something really special on this street too straight ahead is uh the B which is is now the Pino collection so it’s a

Museum if you like Contemporary Art that’s a great place for you to go if you don’t just go in at least to see the building and the Dome because it’s pretty amazing this in here which it’s closed it’s been closed now for at least

I think it says Co but back there on the right is the uh basically the law Museum and it’s really small and it’s kind of you know HP it’s just kind of put together but it’s really interesting like they have the key to the cell where Mar Antonette was kept and it has

Newspaper covers of famous K court cases like the drus affair or um onore uh desire Landrew who was the Blue Beard of Paris they do did two podcast episodes about last year what do we have here maybe they’ll come out so here of course is the fireman the pompier but

What’s really cool about this is this lamp right here is one of the few remaining lamps they this is what used to be all over the city um you had those lamps that said pomier but this is actually one of the few remaining and it has been restored because when I came by

Here about a year ago it was the glass was gone I was quite upset ship Paris there but I love coming back here because I think this is the coolest view of the church and when we go on the other side I’ll tell you some other stuff about it

But it is really interesting because it’s kind of a three it’s almost like a three- layer egg hi darene welcome thanks for being here and you have this amazing little gate here so this was a house that was dated back to originally what was here

Went back to the 15th century and it sat here behind the church and the entire uh building was torn down but they kept the Gate entrance here which is kind of cool but you could look up there see all the goodness there is Big differences between this and what

You see at notredam as far as like if you see the flying buttresses up there the shapes of them are very different the flying buttresses of notredam are very rounded and these ones are kind of come to a peak arounded Peak so they just kind of were doing whatever they

Wanted on this there’s quite a few different Architects um over time that were involved in this and it was Francois prier he did Lay the very first stone here but they had many people over time that never actually you had Architects working on this and they

Never saw it finish so it was August 19 1532 when Francois prier laid the first stone and then it took until April 26 my birthday 1637 for the church to be consecrated so well over 100 years so you had multiple generations of families men that were working on this

Church uh you know the Masons and the Carvers and and everyone working on this church that they never would see finish so it would take three generations which is just crazy to think of somebody you get to work on something and you know hoping to see it finished so straight

Ahead is the borse and on the left that uh little Tower the little Tower that’s there that kind of has almost like a bird cage on it that is the only piece left of the the uh Palace that was here for Catherine deety the nasty Katherine

Deety she was here and this is where she died and the whole entire Palace was torn down except for that column and that column was made for her because she really she Nostradamus was one of her friends and one of her clairvoyants and she really loved astrology and everything and so she used

To be able to go up in there and look at the sky and that thing was covered for years since of when I first came to Paris and then it finally when they opened the Bor a few years ago they opened that you can hear them singing in

There and it’s the notredam singers which is just so amazing let me go back here a little so this facade on the church was finally finish guess how many years it took to finish basically from the 17th century until about two weeks ago and you have it here this is it’s a

Very different facade from what you’ll see you know at other churches this the South Tower was never finished and the North Tower was but everything on it has been restored and so the first first one that was here was built in the 15th century and then in

The 16th century they they had to redo the whole thing because it started actually sinking and then in the 17 in 18th century they had to rebuild it again uh because in the 17th century uh Kar Jean bti Kar who was a minister a very powerful minister to Louis the 14th

He um wanted two Chapel so right in here in the doors um they wanted two chapels put in and so those chapels actually weakened the whole entire facade and it started falling apart again and then um during the Revolution more damage happened to the church it turned into

The Temple of Agriculture very fitting with the layout right next to it but they ended up uh this poor facade has gone through a lot but now look at it it’s all done it’s brand sping new and it looks amazing but this was in 1754 Philip gal was the one who who was

A brother of Louis the 16th which we talked a lot about the other day or I guess a couple weeks ago a bit chillier today right now this afternoon than it was earlier today but what I love about this church and yesterday I came here um because I just

Wanted to come and get some pictures and and do a little research and they were doing a special tour so they had a French tour which I usually will just do because they don’t usually offer English ones and I could get the fr I could understand the French one but they had

An English one and so I decided you know I’m going to do that one because I will just get even more information and I was the only person that showed up for it and then this um really lovely lady um from Turkey walked in the door and

Joined it so it’s just the two of us with this gentleman originally from England that gave the tour and it was fantastic because it was like our own little private tour so of course I asked a million questions and the lady was really sweet I was like you didn’t know you were

Going to get two two guides at the same time but it was really fun and really fascinating um and he got this because we were by oursel and the French the French tour had like 60 people in it and they were doing it on the microphone so

I was really happy that I did with those CH so let’s go up here a little bit higher but I’ll get killed by a skateboard so here we are and you could see just how big the church is and it is in three layers so it is it’s like a

Wedding cake you can see the lower level the middle level and then the upper level which is called the clear story uh because of the windows there is uh two different sunnd dials on here you see the one there just to the left of the lower row of stained glass and then one

At the very top and again we have our deer with his uh crucifix and his antlers these kids are falling but this door is really great and so this this is the South portal and the South portal um is kind of it’s all in the Renaissance

Style so the sculptures on it are really fasy and I’ll get a little bit closer to it but the South portal door was done um in the 17th century and then a lot of the sculptures had to be replaced in the in the 18th after After

The Revolution so the very end of the 18th century but you can see again you can see those hearts up there which I love but you can see from this side you can really see how that Tower just stopped much like sansy peace where the South Tower is not finished as

Well and so this church you know when it was St Agnes it really was kind of basically from this transcept and back it was a much much smaller church and they kept the church in place while they built this one so what came first um

What they did in uh starting at 1530 was straight ahead of us so this is the South uh transcept so they started on the North transcept first and then did a few of those chapels that are just right by there to the to the right of the of

The north transp as we’re looking at it that was first and then over time it would take about 10 years to do each little piece and so one thing I asked him the other day is because you know they’re doing these things in the 16th century and uh

Going to get away from these loud skate borders but they’re doing these things in the 16th century and they don’t have things like forklifts and and uh if you’ve seen the movie Sabrina you’ve seen this giant thing but they didn’t have forklifts and so I was like how did

They build this stuff and so he said they just would do one layer at a time and this one because it is set back so they build this whole lower level and then they’d use the upper part then they’d use the top of this to basically you know station everything and from the

Inside you could really see how that worked and then they would do the next one but here you can see where you have those little kind of Pinnacles the little roofs that are underneath there with the shingles and then underneath the buttresses and the buttresses are very different than what you see on

Notredam but it is a really I love this I love this church and so when I was here yesterday of course they were selling a book um and it’s this amazing book that they also have one they do it for a bunch of churches in Paris or in

France and I also have the the one for Notre and they’re pretty expensive but I literally couldn’t give the lady my money fast enough and it’s good to buy it here because the money goes to the church it is this book that’s gorgeous huge table so heavy as well um but it’s

Absolutely gorgeous and so I am now going to be obsessed with this one too so I will do definitely do a bunch more about this church because there’s so many amazing elements in it Chapel are gorgeous with all of the paintings but look at um the details on here I think

This one this that Saint there is like boys on the skateboard slow your roll calm down just telling them and then of course the Virgin but look at these uh they look like little merma she looks like a little mermaid it’s just the details on here and you could see through here kind

Of could see the North translit windows but the concert should be done in about 10 minutes so we’ll pop in there so you can kind of hear a little bit of it too but they have they’ve been busy since 2010 doing restoration on this the North and South triceps have been

Restored and they’re gorgeous on the inside and then of course they did the facade they also have a soup kitchen here that they’ve had since the 1990s um and so they do that every day of the week could come people could come in here and get soup if they are need of

Food and then layal with that ugly structure over there how I feel about I think that’s how most people feel about it and under that under that is the chatela Metro station the Bane in most of our existence when you live here because you have to go through

It but um it was so great I talked to a couple people at the church yesterday it was really fun to do that um oh and um got to get some information so I’ll come in here and let you guys kind of listen to it for about few minutes you guys can

Hear here of course is my favorite Chapel this is uh dedicated to Sal Andre but it is actually the windows or S Antoine and this is the shakier this is dedicated to them and if you remember if you saw in my stories in November I came here because on the

Weekend closest to S Antoine’s feast day they do a huge celebration in here it’s a two-hour Mass it was freezing cold but it’s dedicated to the shakier and they come in and then after the 2-hour Mass they have a huge tables laid out with sliced meat and sandwiches with SH bone

And wine and everything and it was a I stayed for it I really I froze to death so I could get that ham sandwich [Applause] might be just getting over [Applause] with but the chapels in here are absolutely gorgeous that’s actually go this back way so we don’t get run

Over and I’ll show you the Chapel of the virgin here here’s a great little postcard it’s kind of a fun one and then you have the chapel of P bear which I will show you so this back here is the Chapel of the Virgin and these paintings back here

Were all done in the 19th century by uh Toma Couture and he tomak Couture was a a painter but also a teacher and man was one of his students and then you have those great uh stain glass up here the Virgin um back there on the altar

Was done by piga who also did the one that’s in sany pce and I was took some clients last night we did a dish o tour and I took a some clients into s piece and I was so excited to see that the chapel of John je dark JN of AR is done

So I’ll have to go in there and get some pictures of it but this guy here is co wait till they Get hi Rock so yes yeah so here is coar he was the one that was the minister um of finance and he did all of these things for uh under Louis the 14th and he was the warden of the church and here at santach and so he’s actually

This is where he is buried this Tom was done by Cal which it’s amazing and it could be actually in the L but it was saved by another one of my favorites Mr Alexander Len Noir he saved this from being destroyed and then it returned back here to the church there

Is a fourth piece that is missing from it um that he is supposed to be praying to an angel but that is missing we don’t know where that is but this is amazing cuz you have the two uh the two women here and of course she’s got money coins

Cuz he was Mr uh Finance guy Notre down de Perry did you hear that but these so this church was amazing about this church it is the tallest the highest vaults in all the churches of Paris yeah Sharon this frustration in here is just it’s phenomenal this church

Is owned by the City of Paris but when I was here yesterday I bought the book and then they shaked me down for some more money but I was happy to happy to give it to them because it is such a gorgeous church but it is the church compared to

Notredam so s stash is 30 345 ft long um while not 394 and then this church is 144 ft wide and notredam is 157 and but it is the vaults here are 110 feet high and notom is only 95 so the vaults in here everything is really

Amazing when I was in here earlier listening to the organ and then the music I just was staring up at the ceiling and where all of these columns meet and it’s just gorgeous these windows up above have always been clear um and so this that clear story and so they didn’t have any

Glass in there but this one like the one that’s here these did have one did did have stain glass windows in them but they were destroyed in the revolution and I asked yesterday if they if we knew what they look like and they said they didn’t and I asked if they’d be replaced

And they said no but here sadly you can’t see it very well in here because they’re scaffolding and they’re working on it um but you could tell it’s kind of it’s funny it’s just like uh in s police they did all of the South they’re doing all the Southside chapels first just like

They’re doing in this church um but back here you have this piece by Keith Herring and this is a contemporary piece of course and it’s the Life of Christ and it was done it was one of the very very last pieces that he did and he

Died in 1990 and then it was given to the church because santu stach was a church that during the AIDS epidemic um when that was just in the late 80s and 90 early 90s um sand stash put itself out there as a church that they could

People who come to if uh if people were dying because the you know unfortunately and a lot of young men were dying from AIDS the church would come to the hospital they’ give them their last rights they would bring the families here they would hold their their

Funerals here when a lot of churches and a lot of people didn’t want have anything to do with it so Keith Herring wanted to give this piece to sentou stach and so it was one of uh it’s a very one of the very last things he did

And it was given here um just before he died and play it was not not placed in them the church till after he passed away so all of these little chapels and they’re different like you know when you have the sansy piece and and even not on

You can go into the Chapels they’re much deeper these ones are actually very shallow this one this is the chapel of one of my favorites s Lou and that St glass to picks the education of Stan Louie he’s in another one in here too but that’s him just

Cute little young whipper snapper and there’s his mother blanch to Cy so this one oh the door’s open so this one here this was the personal Chapel of phip galip and that he would be able to sit up there where those windows are open and he could watch the service without having to

Mingle with the Riff Raff but he would be right up here and so a lot of these chapels long ago all were a lot lot of them look like this so they would have the wood and they’d be covered up and they have still have the amazing windows

In there so in the church um the church the original church was basically right behind us so when it was first being um built under Francois p and his plans that he wanted to do right where we are standing so these chapels I just showed you where the first so those are the

Oldest ones let’s go back to the 16th century 1530 um and then they right from here straight over because back here they still had the Church of St Agnes so they were still using the the the parishioners were able to still use this church Standing Ovation can you guys hear me okay hey

Danielle look at this so this is a great church do you get a lot of light look at all that light coming in showing this um thank you so this they also called this so it’s funny the the notredam the roof as we know was called the forest because it

Was the the amount of trees it took to fill a forest to to fill the roof and this one is also the interior this can also be called the forest because you have these 48 columns and they’re like looking up at like massive trees it’s almost like you’re in a redwood forest

Here because they’re so huge so but over here so three I told you earlier there was three things from the 13th century church and two of them I’ll show you hopefully we get to the other side that show you but one of them is right down

Here so this whole bar release that’s on the bottom here this part of it goes back to the 13th century look at that touch even [Applause] that’s that is 13th century and the thing about a church you know if this was in the Lou you couldn’t touch

It but here you could be sneaky but you know don’t touch too much and then what I love when I came here to the Shak coutier Mass I sat over here in the corner which is really smart because right over here is where they put all

The sandwiches and the wine so when it got close I was like the first one in there wasn’t messing around waited years to get in here but look down here you have because there are were people buried in the church and there was also the cemetery that was near here and so these

Are actual former tombstones and grave markers many of which were in the church but they’re here in the floor so hopefully we could they had the backside of this blocked off um but look at how all of this has been restored and all of the paintings most of the

Paintings in here are going to be 18th century but back here what’s really cool is they have uh if I could try to see a spot to show you the stained glass that is over the altars in the back over the choir it kind of look at because everybody’s mingling around you could

Usually never walk up on the altar look it usually you can’t ever come up here because it’s reserved during the ceremonies during mass but look at this how beautiful is this and the relic of santu stash is right there in the front look at how

Beautiful this is so I’ll I’ll back up a little and show you the stained glass but there’s 11 stained glass glass up there and they’re really cool if like maybe I could try to zoom in on here because if you look up there so not only do you have this

Amazing architecture in here but look at how it is carried on see through that you see the arches in the stained glass I just love it it’s like this church has just like endless endless layers and if as you look you just find more and more

But these are all done by Antoine sulak he did all of the the same glass that’ss up there on the clear story level 11 of them and they have different Saints including satu stash of course I love that you could come up here so sneaky it’s a good times to do

This so let’s go back down to the side they had the back behind the music blocked off but we’ll see if we could push our way through so look at it so all of the guys everybody that well the choir they were all wearing these like black and charcoal turtlenecks and I’ll

Have to show you what I’m wearing I thought maybe I should jump on up there and sing a little diddy with them I think they’d notice I’d have to take my red coat off so see I really wish I would love it if they could bring on of these someday

Back with stained glass or if we knew what they look like but just like not just like notredam some idiots in the 18th century decided to whitewash the church so it they painted over with white paint can you imagine all of this every single part of it was painted over

With white paint which is horrific a horrific thought so this one here that’s really really dark sadly so dark this one in here is some of the NR singers so this one is so incredibly dark so you can’t really see it but I love this one because the paintings in

Here were done by Leon Mis and he is guess what I put it make there’s a connection in every podcast I do he is a cousin of jila and then you have the story of Christ here in this window stain glass the stain glass window here is also

Amazing they do have um some plaques on some of these chapels not all of them but some this paint painting back here was done by Ruben his atellier I think I’m going to have to swing around the other way but this is another one of those old chapels of how

It used to be and this was this Chapel here was the chapel of redemption but this is where During the Revolution prior to the revolution that princess L Lal she came here to pray for Mass so we’ll see I don’t think I’ll be able to sneak back we’ll go around this

Way but I um came here because when I came to uh Paris for in 2019 I came I got here four days after the fire of notron which I was devastated about and um that Sunday was Easter so that week that Sunday was Easter

And uh so in said of notam they did the whole City’s Easter celebration here and so the mayor was here all the dignitaries were here the pompers were here um the Archbishop at the time time was here as well it was very exciting uh but it was really cool because then as

You left they gave everybody a little candle and oned it said you know Easter 2019 Santi stash um and then when I came yesterday the I talked to this woman that worked here at the church for a long time and then she gave me a little candle and

It’s his 800th anniversary so I was really excited about that and I will not light them somebody tried to light them one day and I got very upset those candles the church candles burn like you know they’re not great whack so they burn very quickly so here you can see there’s that

Window that we saw on the outside of the Annunciation and then you have the Rose window up there with the hearts you can see the hearts I love it and then you have these windows have the apostles it goes around onto this side as well but I really love the chapel on the

Other side so let me go over there and show you if I could get through here they put these all these benches in here are new and you can see the little antler with the crucifix so St Agnes is still here some places she is up here at the top of the

Seat and then you have the organ and so the the organ that used to be here there was a horrible fire the um gentleman that was working on the organ to restore it knocked over his oil lamp and went into the casing and basically completely burn the whole entire thing so that was

Destroyed and so this one here was moved over from sansy pce and sansy pce got a new one uh but the whole casing of it was done by Victor Batar who was an architect under Houseman and Napoleon III and so what is fun about that is

That he also had done the he’s the one that did the amazing using uh Leal all of those great um the kiosks that they used there and so then he did all this and he also did this ppet that’s right here all of these chairs were turned around facing the other direction so

They pretty quickly flipped everything around so let me show you over here but you just have a little bit so everybody really criticized it and it’s funny because you know back then which is still now you know I think now maybe especially in Europe you have an appreci

Of appreciation of all different styles of architecture um but you know at some point there are people now that want to get rid of all of this stuff because they like the ugly contemporary boxy things so you can tell how I feel about that so yeah but at one point they

Thought you know this is the the flamboyant Gothic and Renaissance is so P we don’t want to have this anymore so let’s just get rid of it or let’s change it but luckily there’s always people especially in France and Europe that want to stay with this style this side

Um these Chapel get even smaller on this side but look at just all of the details in here so be prepared now for me to inundate you with details of every chapel and the stories of the stained glass and everything because even though I have zero time to have another

Obsession I will have another Obsession cuz I got this book I’ll see if I can show you on the table but look at just all of the painting and the sculpture and everything that’s in this church sa sealed yeah I mean just look at all like the

Painting on all of the columns and everything in here but here’s like this is such a great because of the light you have all the light from the clear Story look at just all of this on the ceiling and just how all of these come up and

The and and they just the other day just this week they took down part of the scaffolding at notredam on the Spire so my beloved rooster is free to the world now to be seen okay so this is this window that I love here’s my candle that

I put the little red one because I should I should have mentioned this beginning but today I wanted to dedicate this tour of this church especially since it’s from boyant Gothic to my dear friend Phillip who passed away uh six years ago on this date far too young um a very

Aggressive cancer and I miss him dearly he was a I wish that I knew he had him here today because he was an art major and now I know so much about art that I wish I could love would love to share it with him I talk to him about it but look

At this amazing window that on the left hand side you see s Lou clutching his crown of thorns as always and then on the right you have sha duck but look at how gorgeous this is and then you have Mary up there in Majesty all the details all of this and

The candles and then of course you have sh do over here again and this plack here is about the consecration of the church which was done again on my birthday 1637 mentions it there look at all of this in here it’s just so and there’s the

Organ and then all of these doors so all of this has been covered up but now the door and the paintings everything free to be seen for by anyone and all of the stuff this weekend has been free to the public so there are um there are concerts in here all the

Time because they do um the organ auditions and you go come in here and come in here for free and sit here excuse me and listen oh that’s nice and warm heater look at all of this in here such love it such a gorgeous church I love

All the Chapels and there’s there’s so many chapels in here a lot more than most churches too bad you can see that’s uh so over there thank you Angela yeah if you could hit the like button and even make sure you subscribe to the YouTube channel and share it with

People but look at how this oh so gorgeous but here in the middle of this store it’s always kind of hard to see because it’s so back lit but we’ll see how if I could get over here mix all the people um but that statue that’s right

Here on the door if you could kind of see it right there in between that is also from the original church so that’s also from the 13th century and here is this is the book I got look at how amazing this is that’s the one but you can also get some perfume if

You need to it is also 9 but let me uh take you down here on the side this painting here up above is of the martyrdom of s santu stash so that’s right here look at that view it is let me take you back to the back real quick cuz I’ll

Show you when I bring people in here I make them all stop and look at this one spot I had to Mar I had to get another bookshelf it’s a shorter one and I thought oh this great I’ll put all I could have my Notre da books together

And my bang go exhibit books together it’s already full it was full in within as soon as I put it together and now they’re just stacked up everywhere so by this time next year I needed another apartment for with a two-bedroom one for my office and my bookshelf so this is this secret

Little place that they don’t let us go but up here like when I came here for the Shaka they went up in that little look at how cute that is look at that little oh love it here’s the pigal again but it’s it’s this view right here it’s this view from the back

When you have the chandelier in here and everything it’s just the best and up in this Side that was me to made that noise by the way look at this usually this painting is not here look at that I mean come on just gorgeous but I forgot to show you on the side I want to show you this painting it was done by Ruben because it’s pretty

Stunning in this one yes okay so this painting was done by Ruben as well and this is supposed to be the moment after um and I’m not Catholic we weren’t raised a Catholic or religious everything I know about religion is from art but this is supposed to be the scene of the pilgrims

Of emo Amos not really sure how to say that but this is when they sit down um with this man and they’re breaking bread hey I didn’t know we could go in there they’re breaking bread with him eating with him and this is the moment that they realize

That it is Christ because if you look at the tablecloth you see the tablecloth looks like it’s blowing in the wind and then Christ is looking up and then they look so surprised and that is because they realize he’s looking up to the Holy Father and the ghost the spirit is what

Is coming in and blowing the tablecloth isn’t that the coolest and that’s Reuben and of course there’s red so one thing I’ve know notice about Reuben and I can’t really find an answer and I’ve asked my art Master friends um and they were like you know I don’t know either

But for some reason Ruben um after a certain period of time put large swaths of red fabric in his painting So if you look at the medic cycle which is in the lube that’s my favorite every one of those has has these big huge sheets of

Red fabric whether it’s a dress or a hanging in the back or a curtain it’s on everything and this one has it as well but isn’t that just the coolest love it it’s such a such a gorgeous gorgeous Church you got I mean you put a chandelier in this and look it’s

Straight there look at those layers it’s the chandelier you have the stained glass all the way out there you have a statue you have candles I mean it doesn’t get much better that but you can see from here you can see up to those windows a little bit better

Again yeah it’s really great to come into any of the churches especially if they are doing keep an eye on the concert schedules for the the churches so s PE s j they pray all of those have ch choir or concerts from time to time and if you go during the day that’s

Usually when they’re rehearsing and you can go in there just sit there for free and listen and absolutely lovely I love it look at that oh so gorgeous so I um am going to leave it there with you guys today and I’m actually going to walk around in here for a little bit

And maybe leave another little candle for my sweet friend Phillip but here you go so I am going to jump off of here but thank you guys so much and next weekend I’m going to do another one next weekend and next weekend we’re going to do it um All About Louis vonti

And we’re going I’m going to take you um from the right Bank To the Left Bank in an hour and show you many of the amazing monuments and statues that he created and of course what he did for the Lou because everything’s about the L um

But if you guys want to send a if you want to send a little tip at all you can send it to Claudine at claudian Hemy way.com on venmo or PayPal or zel um you know for me to buy some wine on the way home because it’s cold but thank you

Guys so much and I will maybe I’ll try to turn this around for a second say hi maybe there we are hi so thank you guys so so much and you can see now somebody’s jumping in my video but look at that gorgeous love it but thank you

Guys so much for joining me tomorrow we have another episode like the fourth episode in the story of the Mona Lisa and then we’re g to take a break from her for a little bit but we’re going to come back because I’m not done that’s what happens when I research something

For five months but thank you guys so much for joining me today and I love I was very excited about sharing all of this with you um and there’s going to be even more um that I want to share with you guys in here and so we’ll do that again and try

To pick some times when I could come in here um and just really go to details with each of the Chapels when we have some really good light as well um because it is pretty dark in some of these and but happy 800th birthday I mean what can you say happy 800th

Birthday to in America nada pretty awesome so I love that I love that about here but look at all the I mean look at the details here just I mean it just doesn’t but I’m going to stay here so I get some more pictures but I will also

Post it make sure you follow me on Instagram and I will post some in the stories of the notredam choir singing today which was pretty amazing but thank you guys all so much for being here and I will see you next week