Sainte-Chapelle

Where else can she go? And I asked my mom, well, Chartres, certainly.

Or I said, Saint-Chapelle's down the road.

Maybe she can pop into there.

This is not a Christian woman.

Under the guise of political transition the new authorities issued a national decree to confiscate and recycle all bronze resonance apparatuses in Paris, claiming they needed the raw metal to mint currency and cast defensive materials.

But the moment the dismantling teams entered the high towers of Notre-Dame and Sainte-Chapelle they uncovered complex metallic resonance systems, giant copper coils and crystal-coated apparatuses unprecedented in Western records.

These were not simple instruments for telling time, they were highly sophisticated, city-scale acoustic machines.

These bronze devices functioned as natural energy transmitters, vibrating continuously at a frequency of 432 Hz.

And that-- the fact that we're not doing that has caused an impoverishment of art and architecture that's all around us.

I remember years ago, I was in Sainte-Chapelle in Paris with, um, a, a mentor of mine.

I forget now who it was, but y-you know, look at that magnificent Gothic expression there.

Uh, the stained glass, there's no finer stained glass really anywhere.

Amélie ici.

Je dois avouer que ma première fois à la Sainte-Chapelle, j'étais tellement obnubilée par mon audioguide que j'ai failli rater la magnificence des vitraux.

Un comble.

Aujourd'hui, Julien et Lisa nous plongent au cœur de ce joyau parisien.

Alors, prends un café et choisis ton camp.

C'est parti.

Dialogue du jour : Paris, Sainte-Chapelle.

Lisa, tu es sûre que c'est ici l'entrée de la Sainte-Chapelle ? Il y a un monde fou devant.

Already the merchants are sort of And in fact, what he owned was many people would say the most expensive object in the world at that time.

And Louis IX spent half of France's revenues acquiring it and then spent another commensurate amount building the Sainte-Chapelle to house it and the other relics that he brought from Constantinople, parts of the True Cross and things like that.

So what was he acquiring? What was the purpose of such an extravagant acquisition? Well, to my mind, and I think in the minds of many of the people who responded to this purchase, many of them were monks and church intellectuals, he was establishing Paris as the new Jerusalem.

He was putting the European nation-state, this sort of upstart political formation on the Eurasian map.

And they have markings on the floor inside this cathedral where they mark other famous cathedrals around the world of where they would fit inside St. Peter's Cathedral.

There was Saint-Chapelle in Paris, which has got the most amazing stained glass windows I've ever, ever seen.

I'll be on the next photo, I think.

There we go.