Saint-Cloud: How France Accidentally Destroyed Their Own Palace
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- čas přidán 23. 10. 2020
- The Château de Saint-Cloud, on the western edge of Paris, has got everything you'd want from a French royal château: beautiful gardens, fountains, statues, and unbeatable views across the city. Everything except, erm, the Château itself. So what on earth happened to it? I went to Saint-Cloud to investigate...
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Next time I'll find a mask that doesn't slip off my nose when I talk... 🤦♂️
From January 14 2021, man that line about Trump shelling the White House is a little too prescient. Are you sure you’re not a time traveler?
"I probably shouldn't joke about that one." That didn't age well.
Super picky technical point. The Pavillon de Breteuil is not international territory. It is still very much part of France. But like Embassies, Consulates and the Headquarters of UNESCO, the land and buildings are provided with functional privileges and immunities. Still French territory--France just does not apply her laws there.
the donald trump joke almost became real .....
Good call on the DOnald Trump shelling the US Capitol...
The Trump joke aged well xD
The Joke about Trump and the White House was ominously predictive. oof
I like how you included disability access information in your "if you want to visit" section. It seems small, and I'm not even disabled, but I think it's very thoughtful <3
you missed out that the château was also owned by Louis XIV's brother Philippe of France, Duke of Orléans who bought and greatly extended the original property
"Let's join all the German states and form a big German and call it Germany,"
Cloud (actually Chlodoald) was a Merovingian prince who resigned his rights to an inheritance in favour of investiture as a monk. He founded a monastery at the place now named after him and died there greatly revered about 560 AD.
Tim, I adore you. You are really a treasure. With everything that's going on in the world (I'm an American living in Europe), you bring a bit of history and your keen dose of levity to your videos. It's like traveling without traveling, and now I have a long list of places to visit when lockdown is over. You make me smile. And as a historian (clothing, not buildings and railways), you give my brain something to chew on too. No matter how hard it gets, please know that you're helping people a lot just by putting videos up. Thank you.
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Wearing the mask must have made the audio syncing and editing so easy! Pandemics are truly the golden age for travel guides.
Thank goodness there's trains in this video, and a miniature one
"Imagine by the end of January next year, the Queen has destroyed Buckingham Palace, or Angela Merkel has burned the Reichstag, or Donald Trump is shelling the White Hou... actually I probably shouldn't joke about that one."
“Probably should joke about that one”
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“When Nationalism takes the place of reason...”. Thank you, Tim. It’s comforting to know that those of us suffering under that right now are not alone in our disappointment of its circumstances.