April 15, 2019, the world holds its breath: Notre-Dame de Paris, France’s leading monument to which 13 million visitors flock each year, is in flames.
The attic, the wooden roof, and the spire by the architect Viollet-Le-Duc are collapsing. But in the midst of this nightmare, a miracle occurs: This masterpiece of Gothic architecture of 5,500m2 finally stands firm.
With the help of unpublished archives, interviews with top experts, reconstructions, and computer-generated images, this film will unlock the secrets of Notre-Dame’s construction, the techniques invented and deployed by its builders, the threats it has faced over nearly nine centuries, and the plans for its future renovation.
Documentary: THE ETERNAL NOTRE-DAME
Directed by: Stanislas Kraland
Production: La Famiglia for RMC Découverte
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I literally cried, as a history buff, watching Notre Dame burn. It was devastating. And knowing how close it came to collapse…all credit to those masons that built that beautiful building and the firefighters that saved it. This was a great documentary. My favorite book, Pillars of the Earth, made me interested in the construction of these magnificent pieces of art. I hope to see it with my own eyes one day. Thank you for posting this.
That is a great book. I enjoyed it immensely. 😊
I’m a history nut. I’m also Catholic. As I watched Notre Dame burn, I was in tears. Since then, I’ve watched videos like this and been amazed with the masons of 8 centuries past, who erected such a beautiful and stalwart structure. It’s been fascinating also seeing the “archeology of Notre Dame. God Bless Notre Dame, Paris, and France. May she stand at least another thousand years. 🇺🇸🇫🇷
I'm an Atheist but I too was saddened by the loss of Notre Dame. Its a beautiful work of art & architecture, not to mention history. I'm glad such a culturally significant building is nearly done being restored.
They didn't. It was from the Millennial Reign of Christ. It already happened. And when Satan was loosed again to deceive for a short season, Revelation 20:7, in1776, they began to burn them all down in the great fires of the 1800s! Watch the Timeline Deception Exploring Tartaria. Understanding Conspiracy, Who are we if the millennial reign of Christ already happened? And Jason Jack, are we in the short season? And, My Lunch Break the Old World was World wide? Get ready for the New Jerusalem! Jesus saves.
@@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980all beautiful Old World buildings are from the Millennial Reign of Christ, past. We're in Satan loosed again to deceive. Watch the Timeline Deception Exploring Tartaria, Jason Jack, My Lunch Break, and Understanding Conspiracy on the Short Season.
I walked through Notre Dame in 1982. What a magnificent building. To see it burn broke my heart but to see the reconstruction nearing completion is a remarkable achievement. I was watching a documentary on SBS here in Australia presented by Lucy Worsley and the attention to detail is fantastic.
Thanks for making this video in English. I've followed the progress since 2019. I'm praying for successful restoration from Arizona.
Thank you so much to the creators of this video.This documentary was truly excellent in all respects.
A masterpiece of architecture, engineering, and art.
Having been blessed to travel the world, of all the amazing places I visited, Paris is the place that changed my life. I have visited many times and fallen in love with so much of France, but Paris vibrates with a special magic that leaves you haunted, and longing to return. Not personally religious, each of my visits requires a visit to Notre Dame, to check on it and say I’m back for more magic and art. To see her burn, I was sure was the death of me. I have not visited since she burned, but will return when she is back to her old self!
Stams are cut and grow again. Wow. Not just building techniques, but also biology.
Absoltely fascinating to watch. I wish I could understand French but your presenatstion held me spellbound. I really admire French architecture. Thanks for showing this.
This is very nice of you, thank you!
A wonderful documentary about an absolutely wonderful, medieval church. Thank you!
God had his hand in its representation
It may reinvigorate medieval artistry. Here's hoping.
Thank you for sharing this documentary.. very well done … 😊
So many historic structures have burned - Windsor Castle in 1992, Glasgow School of Art in 2018 (following a blaze just 4 year’s before), Notre Dame in 2019…
Nôtre-Dām always be the best Catholic Church in the World ❤
Admire your work Dan. Watching your team rebuilding the Chateau step by step.
I was fifteen the first time I visited Paris. I'm 57 now when Notre Dame caught fire I was shocked it seemed indestructible alas it is not. The masters needed to repair it are probably difficult to find.
The use of the wooden pilings to reinforce the foundation was how Venice was built.
What about Amsterdam
Bravo for this entire video. Absolutely marvelous attention to detail
MARVELOUS👋-💥🥰😇 Que hermosura, Gracias Dios por todos los grandes arquitectos y personas con FE QUE SABEN TRASCENDER Y CON 💘 SE DEJAN GUIAR POR EL ESPÍRITU SANTO Y DAN LO MEJOR🥰😇💪🤝🙏💥🌎. FELICITACIONES. ELLOS Y ELLAS con su trabajo, creatividad, apoyo y generosidad hicieron posible este majestuoso templo. Maravilla del mundo. Vamos llega para todos hay lugar. Bienvenid@ Hn@ 🤝👏💐🥂🛤🌄 💒🙏🕊🌏.GOD CONTINUE BLESSING THE WOLD🤩
Awesome documentary. merci.
Flying buttresses was the turning point in the construction of these cathedrals.
It’s a shame that documentaries add dramatic music. So distracting from the narration.
At least they don't use KI for the text , luckily
Would like to understand this. The precious cathedral got fire in our time in a major holiday. And we just, oh well happens sometimes.
There was renovation work happening at the time, and rags + combustible oils were left in close proximity to each other, or some other unfortunate accident, I recall hearing at the time. If you wanted to, you could read a newspaper article from just after the fire in 2019, and learn something instead of speculating.
@@shinyshinythings Yet newspaper articles show that after the Notre Dame fire a migrant admitted to burning down several Catholic churches in Paris. Look it up.
The music sucks... the videography great, and also the script, but the music sucks... it is a distraction...
Although I do not believe in organized religion, I do have a strong spiritual core. That I believe everything has a beginning and comes from something. The original builders cut down massive oaks, leaving the trunk to grow back. In 50 or 60 years, the tree was ready to be used again. The soul of Notre Dame is restored, when rebuilding the 'forest roof', they return and utilize the trees left by the original generation.
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I’m curious, the narration was obviously originally in French. Who produced the original documentary? The lack of credits to the original French producers of the wonderful drone footage, shots of maps and plans, and above all the excellent interviews with experts, is really bothersome.
Dan 😂 love it . Double glazing , My language.
Is the main narrator Will from The Repair Shop?? I swear I know that voice.
Saw it in 2006! St. Peter’s is more massive, however I thought yard for yard it was the most impressive cathedral I got to see.
Great but the terrible mucaz destroy the feeling good experince😢. Don't play and talk at the same time. 😢
Merci. Haaa+
Background is unwanted. Is this a trilller movie?
25.000 inhabitants in the 12th century? I believe it was much more.
1150 : 50 000 inhabitants. 1200 : 78 000 . 1250 : 125 000 Merry Christmas.
Don't forget that the 12th century was the 1100's, (not the 1200's).
@@bblegacy I am not sure your answer was for me, but I just wanted to show albawutz he was right, and the evolution of the population over a century, from the mid XII° to the mid XIII° 🙂
@@bblegacy i’m aware of that.
@@albawutz And I probably did not deserve any thanks for the time I took looking for the answer of the question you asked… 🙂 So nice of you. Happy New Year's Eve though.
Could have saved hundreds of millions with a simple sprinkler system
Did they ever find out what was the cause of the fire?
No, they didn't. Or if they did, they didn't make it public. Despite what the tinfoil hatters and racists are spewing though, there's no proof of a deliberate act. But whether the fire was accidental, linked to negligence, if it had something to do with the restoration work that was going on before the fire (cigarette butt, sparks, etc.) or whether it's something to do with fatly wiring installed by the clergy, there's still no answer.
What caused the fire?
If you want to make a good documentary, STOP THAT IMBECILE ANNOYING MUSIC.
11:41. COMPOSED of three arches….not comprised!
Alternate reality ?
😮.
what amazes me from travelling the world is how certain things become the most visited, what made this so great? being huge? being catholic? why? there's so much beauty out there and this is not the best or deserved to this extent, there's other bigger more amazing, there's other already destroyed and no one cares there's other smaller more beautiful, there's even so much that could have been done to Notre Dame that would make it look grander but wasn't done. Most people don't know and can't tell and go just because of the hype, don't believe the hype and learn something more about style of all kinds before you jump on the bandwagon ad go yes, LOL, FYAMF. tooo funny.
I've always despised the spire. It was so alien to the rest of the architecture. An ugly add-on it was and looked exactly that. I hoped they wouldn't replace it
COULDN'T AGREE MORE
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french. nobody goes to church souvernir of France of religious pass to agnostic now
I can’t even begin to understand and take in what is being said because they are talking too fast!!
Did you know you can slow down playback? You can make it play at .75 speed and make it more understandable.
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Honestly I have never been impressed with the catholic religion . But Not really Dame was unique. The architecture of these old structures are priceless. I remember it was said it wouldn't be rebuilt and finished till 2050. That was a crock of shit. As they said it is wealth and had huge income. That's what Notre Dame is a money pit. The key is money take note the word God was never said in the documentary. It is a place of hope prayer and worship for people. I think keeping it as original is the key. Although it's historical and each day adds to it's history. What don't like is how they lied about taking until 2050 . They should have said unknown how long and how much could be saved. I'm not your most religious person but I realize the importance to the people. Prayer is good no matter where it is. Have they forgotten the Virgin Mary appeared in a dump. She appeared to Bernadette now known as Saint Bernadette. By the way the movie made about Saint Bernadette original movie is one of the most well made movies. A dear friend Joseph Barret/ known as Joey brought the movie to me to see.it changed my life.
The constant overly dramatic music is very distracting. And it isn't coherent. Had to switch off 10 minutes in because of the bad editing
Hélas, hélas, hélas, on pense aujourd'hui qu'on ne peut plus réaliser un tel documentaire sans "musiques additionnelles" passe-partout complètement nulles et envahissantes. Comme si c'était devenu impensable de laisser parler un homme (ou une femme) "à voix nue". Pour moi, ces musiques additionnelles omniprésentes ruinent l'intérêt du documentaire.
I believe God gave the people the knowledge of how to build Notre Dame . Also God gave the men & women the strength and knowledge along with persistent hard work and faith. This documentary had touched me in a way I can not explain ❤
French language 😭 for notr dame du paris
Paris had been wiped off the map in the MCMXCVIII movie Armageddon !
This film is a fiction 😂
the background music is intolerable
So true but so so regular. But why?
It’s like being stuck in a drama rave.
Simple, you don't watch.
Nissi stulti resspondere ad omnem quaestionem.
The Catholic Church needs to PAY TAXES.
😂😂😂 you jackass.
Tartaria 100%, not a religious building but, an energy-harvesting design.
Energy-harvesting? I don't think so lol. As fore me, I feel absolutely OK inside of Gothic buildings. A tribe of Celtic Gauls called the Parisii founded Paris on the land now known as Île de la Cité. It's just a convenient islet. Many towns were built next to, near, along, on rivers; did you know that?
No insurance?! So donations are welcomed from wealthy publicity seekers and ordinary people for renovations in stone, timber and glass. Expected cost: 1billion euros (Hiscox). Meanwhile, millions of little ‘catholic’ kids have no clean water, education or future. Not very Christian. Or is it?
All churces built in France before 1905 are owned by the French government. Donations to rebuild Notre Dame were NOT made to the Catholic church, but to France. The Catholic church is merely allowed to use the building, but it does not own it, nor does it really have much, if any, control over it.
If there is a village in Africa, two centuries old, that still does not have adequate running water, it is not the fault of the Catholic church or people of Europe. My community has had adequate water for a thousand years. If we couldn't figure something out within the first year or two we probably should have moved on.....
The cathedral is insured by the French state who owns it. Try to learn the basics.
CHRIST IS THE KING OF THE WORLD! PRAISE THE LORD!
Grow up, fool.
the capital of demons and angels.... eternal Paris
It’s amazing how you can do a 53 min documentary on a Roman Catholic Church and not use the word God once yes it is and always will be an architectural marvel and beautiful building and I thank the people of France and the French government for rebuilding it but maybe God let it be burnt down to send a message on why it’s really important and there for
It‘s hard to know, if this was the intention of God. He talks seldom in real live. And every interpretation is manmade. Perhaps he helped all the firefighter to prevent the damage?
God had nothing to do with it.
And after 53 min the host or speaker, one of them, called it Notre Dam as in fan.
God you could say prevented it from completely burning down. It could have been far far worse. So god was sending a message that humans aren’t damned.
@@IcelanderUSer no "he" didn't. Stop making shit up.
Still not mentioning the arsonist dressed as a muslim cleric, seen 15 min before the fire started by a tourist video.
too much repeated content in this video. definite thumbs down.
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