French Kings Are Buried in a Foreign Enclave near Paris!? See It Yourself

French Kings Are Buried in a Foreign Enclave near Paris!? See It Yourself

I visit the royal necropolis of Basilique Saint-Denis, the burial place of the kings of France.

But Saint-denis has changed rapidly over the past decades and no longer feels like a French city.

In this video, I first explore the royal necropolis itself, then walk through Saint-Denis to show what the area around it looks like today, and why the contrast has become so striking.

0:00 Intro
1:12 Inside the Basilica
3:07 Walking in Saint-Denis
8:15 How Saint-Denis Used to Look
8:30 Walking in Saint-Denis
10:12 Local Market
11:57 Back to the Basilica & Conclusion

Music used in this video:

Marche Slave, Op. 31 — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Recording by Omega13a (CC BY 4.0), edited for length
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Air on the G String — Johann Sebastian Bach (from Orchestral Suite no. 3, BWV 1068)

In the Hall of the Mountain King — Edvard Grieg