A flaw in his restorations is that he rebuilt all Gothic cathedrals according to a single model, removing some interesting quirks in the original designs.
thus, essentially erasing gothic heritage and building neo-gothic abominations instead? some of them at least. bad. not as bad as baron Haussmann, maybe, but. edit: nothing against genuine neo-gothic, built from scratch. victorian historicism. bit funny and disney-esque, but not bad essentially. renovating 13th c building in neo-gothic is a crime against humanity and taste, though.
@@p1rgit As much as I love architecture and history, I wouldn't exactly call it a crime against humanity, as the vast majority of the population cannot tell the difference between Neo-Gothic and Gothic design. The goal of le Duc was to save the buildings themselves as without him, the restoration team wouldn't have succeeded and the buildings likely wouldn't exist today. A complete removal of the style from our reality, is what I'd consider a crime against humanity. Not a design change that only the few design and architecture nerds would notice.
@@Visiopod The number of people able to distinguish between Original Gothic and Neo Gothic is irrelevant. Thanks to Viollet Le Duc, building were preserved, bur still at the price if some falsification of history. Transforming a XIIIth Gothic building into a Neo Gothic one, even just partially, is definitely NOT to ever be taken ligthly. Some people would no doubt love to start cutting corners like so, make a few approximations here and there and just shrug because "most people don't see the difference, anyway". And that would, sooner or later, lead to bigger parts of a country's history being utterly marred and falsified. As a history enthusiast and a die-hard French patriot, I cannot subscribe to that. Eugène Viollet - Le Duc did what he could with what he had, and meant only the best in what he was doing, but we should definitely exercise more caution than what he did. We must do better.
@@Briselance He was the first person who considered preserving them in the first place. I don't think it's fair to compare his methods with methods of our time when in his time no such methods even existed. That is when you do some really, Really bad work tho (like Schliemann did in the field of archaeology f.e.), even if being the first, doesn't mean we shouldn't criticize. But I don't think this is the case.
You need to have music in the background. Classical is great for background music, but the volume that your music is playing at is competing with your speech, making it difficult to listen.
Забележителна личност. Бях в Каркасон, който той е реставрирал - средновековната атмосфера е изумителна, макар някои да оспорват неговата автентичност.
Tragic soundtrack; I'd prefer to hear the narration rather than the music. Sigh! Sigh again! I put it on mute and read the subtitles. Thanks for this great visual and textual content.
Can't please everyone. It is all period music if that makes any difference. If there was no music other people would complain it's too boring. But thank you for the other comments.
Does anyone know of a book or good scholarly article that discusses in detail (in English) how Le Duc added sculptures and other details to the cathedral?
interesting when i could understand your inarticulate and overly hurried commentary. Combine that with images lasting for no more than 3 seconds, you've produced quite quite a whirlwind documentary. BY the way, Notre Dame Paris is certainly not the "quintessential" gothic cathedral; though it is, undoubtedly, the most well-known, because of Victor Hugo's novel, "Notre Dame"
Very enjoyable and informative video and the music was excellent. I'm going to be REALLY picky and I do apologise, but it grates each time I hear it. Your French pronunciation was, I thought, really good - Sacres, Paris, and French place names generally. The one word that grated was NOTRE, which Americans seem to insist on pronouncing NOTE-RE (NOTE as in 'note book'), whereas it should be NOT-RE (not as in 'red not blue'). If better or native French speakers have any comment on this or if I'm wrong, please let me know. At least it wasn't NOTE-RE DAME (DAME as in 'There is nothing like a Dame') which I hear Americans use a lot :)
Good catch! My apologies. I did just confirm with a French friend that you are correct. When I was living in France I never caught that I was saying it slightly wrong. Thank you!
@Pumkincat Ah, that explains your great pronunciation! Please don't think I was being negative, the video was great and caused me to subscribe. Thank you for taking the time to make it.
He didn't like medieval architecture: he liked his idea of it, or in fact practically completely neo-gothic style created in his head. Not to mention the damage he inflicted on interiors that he "purged" out of anything not fitting his vision.
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It’s fashionable to revile Le Duc but I love his magnificent contribution to the beautification of France.
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or more correctly, the falsification of French medieval architecture
@ Goodness me. That’s really nasty. Are you one of those bitter, unhappy internet trolls that the press talk about?
Very interesting. Really wish we had a Le-Duc here in the U.S. to save our buildings.
I am glad you included at 13:02 Victor Hugo and his novel. Hugo awakened France to its medieval heritage.
A flaw in his restorations is that he rebuilt all Gothic cathedrals according to a single model, removing some interesting quirks in the original designs.
thus, essentially erasing gothic heritage and building neo-gothic abominations instead? some of them at least. bad. not as bad as baron Haussmann, maybe, but. edit: nothing against genuine neo-gothic, built from scratch. victorian historicism. bit funny and disney-esque, but not bad essentially. renovating 13th c building in neo-gothic is a crime against humanity and taste, though.
@@p1rgit As much as I love architecture and history, I wouldn't exactly call it a crime against humanity, as the vast majority of the population cannot tell the difference between Neo-Gothic and Gothic design. The goal of le Duc was to save the buildings themselves as without him, the restoration team wouldn't have succeeded and the buildings likely wouldn't exist today. A complete removal of the style from our reality, is what I'd consider a crime against humanity. Not a design change that only the few design and architecture nerds would notice.
@@Visiopod
The number of people able to distinguish between Original Gothic and Neo Gothic is irrelevant.
Thanks to Viollet Le Duc, building were preserved, bur still at the price if some falsification of history. Transforming a XIIIth Gothic building into a Neo Gothic one, even just partially, is definitely NOT to ever be taken ligthly.
Some people would no doubt love to start cutting corners like so, make a few approximations here and there and just shrug because "most people don't see the difference, anyway". And that would, sooner or later, lead to bigger parts of a country's history being utterly marred and falsified.
As a history enthusiast and a die-hard French patriot, I cannot subscribe to that.
Eugène Viollet - Le Duc did what he could with what he had, and meant only the best in what he was doing, but we should definitely exercise more caution than what he did. We must do better.
@@Briselance He was the first person who considered preserving them in the first place. I don't think it's fair to compare his methods with methods of our time when in his time no such methods even existed. That is when you do some really, Really bad work tho (like Schliemann did in the field of archaeology f.e.), even if being the first, doesn't mean we shouldn't criticize. But I don't think this is the case.
@@Visiopod no one would notice if all masterpieces in art museums were replaced with copies, either...
Merci ! Très bonne vidéo sur notre cher Viollet le Duc ! 🤍
Great video, but the background music volume is a bit too high
I love your videos man, even if they are not frequent. Pls keep uploading.
Awesome vid
God bless
You need to have music in the background. Classical is great for background music, but the volume that your music is playing at is competing with your speech, making it difficult to listen.
Very interesting but the background music is way too loud
great video; thank you!
This is an excellent film, but please note that kings are crowned at their coronation, not "coronated".
Забележителна личност. Бях в Каркасон, който той е реставрирал - средновековната атмосфера е изумителна, макар някои да оспорват неговата автентичност.
Please turn down the music, which constantly distracted from the INTERESTING commentary.
Link to this version of Great Fairy Fountain?
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13:56 is not Chartres/Amiens/Rouen, photos show Chartres/Strasbourg/Rouen Cathedrals.
Thought I made it clear with the text on screen but sorry for the confusion! Should probably have re-recorded the audio.
Awesome guy
Great video, thank you! (Kings are not coronated, they are crowned, by the way).
Do it without music next time
Everything is good, but the MUSIC WAS ANNOYING!
Tragic soundtrack; I'd prefer to hear the narration rather than the music. Sigh! Sigh again! I put it on mute and read the subtitles. Thanks for this great visual and textual content.
Can't please everyone. It is all period music if that makes any difference. If there was no music other people would complain it's too boring. But thank you for the other comments.
Does anyone know of a book or good scholarly article that discusses in detail (in English) how Le Duc added sculptures and other details to the cathedral?
Crowned not coronated !!
Who saved?! Gosh ....he has rebuilt many places with his own taste and created some piece out of nowhere
Violet, el destructor de la Historia
It would be more correct to say that he invented French mediaeval architecture, since the 'restored ' buildings often were just invented.
Why are you talking so fast? It's not necessary. The background music is also fast and intense so it was a task to follow.
Proper proper video this
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interesting when i could understand your inarticulate and overly hurried commentary. Combine that with images lasting for no more than 3 seconds, you've produced quite quite a whirlwind documentary. BY the way, Notre Dame Paris is certainly not the "quintessential" gothic cathedral; though it is, undoubtedly, the most well-known, because of Victor Hugo's novel, "Notre Dame"
Very enjoyable and informative video and the music was excellent. I'm going to be REALLY picky and I do apologise, but it grates each time I hear it. Your French pronunciation was, I thought, really good - Sacres, Paris, and French place names generally. The one word that grated was NOTRE, which Americans seem to insist on pronouncing NOTE-RE (NOTE as in 'note book'), whereas it should be NOT-RE (not as in 'red not blue'). If better or native French speakers have any comment on this or if I'm wrong, please let me know. At least it wasn't NOTE-RE DAME (DAME as in 'There is nothing like a Dame') which I hear Americans use a lot :)
Good catch! My apologies. I did just confirm with a French friend that you are correct. When I was living in France I never caught that I was saying it slightly wrong. Thank you!
@Pumkincat Ah, that explains your great pronunciation! Please don't think I was being negative, the video was great and caused me to subscribe. Thank you for taking the time to make it.
He didn't like medieval architecture: he liked his idea of it, or in fact practically completely neo-gothic style created in his head. Not to mention the damage he inflicted on interiors that he "purged" out of anything not fitting his vision.