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@marinawinter469

Жыл бұрын

5⁵5,

@annlykins8249

Жыл бұрын

Bq

@neger7717

Жыл бұрын

@@annlykins8249 å

"Millions of ordinary people were taxed to the hilt, while rich nobles payed virtually nothing." sounds familiar.

@backtothefuture6067

Жыл бұрын

Bingo 👌

@tendr247

Жыл бұрын

Republicans need to get rid of Soros and Schwab......asap

@nikolatovar9884

Жыл бұрын

And all of those taxes are funneled directly to the rich, none going to benefit the public.

@michaelbubbles

Жыл бұрын

Which country are you referring to?

@darcylewkad7096

Жыл бұрын

I have said for quite some time that we need to get the guillotine out.

Basically, Louis was a gentle soul, a decent man, who wanted to do good for his ppl, but who did not have the force of personality to deal with all the vipers surrounding. Also, he was given little to no useful preparation for the tasks ahead of him, even in "normal" times, let alone the absolute shambles, that was left to him. He tried and tried to inact changes, but he was obstructed, bullied, maligned etc at every turn. And in the end, he and his family paid the ultimate price for the greed and selfishness of other ppl. He really never stood a chance. Even if he had been more forceful in resisting the nobles, the groundwork for the events, that ended in the revolution, were laid long b4 his time, and he likely wouldnt have been able to change the course of history anyway. I know, ppl like to think, that things happen quickly, it was due to that 1 thing or that 1 person. But usually its a decades or even a centuries long process building up to a culmination. Louis was unlucky enough to be left with paying the price for his predecessors and the selfserving ppl around him.

@richposports7030

Жыл бұрын

Sounds a bit like Jeremy Corbyn....

@LoveAndSnapple

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for being reasonable and practical in this comment. I just came from watching the video about the reign of his father, Louis XV, and man, he was really handed the wheel to the titanic AFTER it started to sink. The serious problem with monarchies is their foolish belief that some random bloodline was chosen by God to lead the people and that whatever they so wish and desire must be straight from the mouth of God. It’s only when things go wrong with piss poor management, do people start to silently wonder, “he really is just a man, isn’t he?” Handing over entire kingdoms and countries to mere children who are ill prepared to look after themselves, let alone the well-being of an entire group of people and it’s military.

@MrRemijohn

7 ай бұрын

he lacked leaderships and a pair of balls!!!!

@kathleenmholland8055

7 ай бұрын

I agree. This entire situation had been developing for a very long time. And Louis ended up being the one who died for it.

@riateor2243

5 ай бұрын

actually I do believe he would have been able to change the course of history if he had successfully managed to pass on his terms through the nobles that resisted him. proof is that the common peoples representators reached to him one final time and when he refused to see them that was the last straw for them. Noone wants bloodshed and to kill themselves in the process of achieving something and although enraged and stuffed, I think if he had helped the economical situation for the commoners, they would have taken a step back, even if for that time being, until he made things even better. But its ridiculous how a king cant even manage his own blood sucking nobles living in the same castle as him. I guess with all those riches they had accumulated they were powerful enemies who could have orchestrated his assasination, if he dared to oppose them and pass on his terms, despite their protests. He was cornered between the commoners and his nobles. From that aspect he didnt stand a chance, most of all.

They didn't have a bad sex life. They were teenagers when they got married and no one explained anything. It took them some time, but once they got started they had 4 children - one died in infancy, the Dauphin died of TB, the 2nd son they tortured after the family was imprisoned, and Madame Royale survived and later married.

@madisonbrown5766

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. She was only 14 and he was 15. Must’ve been scary. Also, he was super shy and like you said, just didn’t know what to do until Marie’s brother helped him figure it out years later and then they finally had children.

@kimberlypatton9634

Жыл бұрын

I have found a comment arena where I can explain the situation entirely...When a male child is born ,the foreskin covers the tip of the penis. If ,as the child grows,the child is not instructed to stretch the foreskin back on a regular basis to expose the head of the member ( usually best done during bath time) it remains tight and can cause discomfort and actual pain during erections. The restrictive foreskin was the problem Louis had that prevented his consummation in his sexual encounters.Since to head of the penis is the most sensitive and integral factor in the completion of the males ability to complete basic orgasm and ejaculation ,he was incapable of this due to this correctable isse.I give credit to the wise physician who identified,diagnosed and eventually performed ( what is actually a common solution) a simple surgery that amounted to a version of circumcision,which removed the restriction caused by the overly tight and coverage of his foreskin.After the operation and healing it required,having this minor surgical procedure seems to have made quite a breakthrough in ,not only his and Marie's personal sex life) but in his overall inner sense of masculinity. I would like to magine that a "Moyle" was consulted by possibly one of his court doctors who was very smart and knew of one who was practiced ,(as is practiced part of the Jewish faith protocols) as a professional duty upon the birth of a male child as a religious and widely practiced & solid ritual customary event in the Jewish faith.And this was something that,while not taken on a religious context in Louis situation,but taken as and seen for the value it held as a medical cure and procedure to remedy what held back the King and was so simply a basic no brainer.The physician(s) responsible for this breakthrough are not identified ,( I don't think) but IMO they deserve very much credit and I hope they were richly rewarded for giving this young couple and him personally ,a way that enhanced their li bees in a great way...as a human being and as a man.Im sure he must have felt very bad about half and the whispers,snickering & goings on about his "disability" behind his back .I admire those smart and caring physicians,whomever they were.

@lucyhanks500

Жыл бұрын

wasn’t there a ‘Tird child to splash the Greyjoy paint around, for insanity effects and paint the sheep a different colour, before they see the latest influencers offerings? How entertaining?

@jaquelinealmazan7027

Жыл бұрын

I think she knew very well what sex was since she was constantly told by her mother (more so seeing how her mom gave birth to 13? Children.. woman were told what to expect), who would send her letters about the issue of her not having children. It was more of her husband not sexually interested (not that he was bi or gay) just that he has little to no sex drive and wasn't actually told straight up how to by her brother came and gave him a talk

@tomadumas2939

Жыл бұрын

@@jaquelinealmazan7027 nobody told their children about sex, they were all Roman Catholic and to know about sex before marriage has always been taboo to Catholics. Maria Theresa didn't tell Maria Antonia anything before shipping her off for dynastic gains. Come on.

I wonder how many of the nobles who sabotaged Louis' attempts to tax them found themselves on the scaffold a few years later. Did it ever occur to them that their own hubris and arrogance were responsible for their fate.

@amarieoflothlorien

Жыл бұрын

most of them secretly suppored the revolution, including his own brothers who wanted the throne.

@ovh992

Жыл бұрын

Pretty much all the nobles were beheaded. Most that survived only survived because they fled the country.

@booliev3275

Жыл бұрын

Actually most of them, starting with his brothers, fled soon after the start of the revolution. But when they where reinstalled during the restoration agreed with all the principles brought by the revolution, taxation, constitutional monarchy...

@lisatalmage4627

Жыл бұрын

Never! Vanity has it's own rewards. Just desserts...comes to mind.

@booliev3275

Жыл бұрын

@@amarieoflothlorien what? Where do you get that from. What about the great evil and the anti revolution coalitions. You must confuse with his cousin Philippe égalité.

I had such a terrible image of these two from learning about them at school. This was very enlighting... history is told different based on who writes history books

@theuniverseisme432

Жыл бұрын

You have to do a lot of research to get to the truth and can’t trust everyone you talk to because they may be biased. This is why I hated gossip in high school cause most of the time it was skewed by the perspective of the person telling the story

@dfuher968

Жыл бұрын

Its been my experience, that theyre so busy just teaching the headlines of history in school, that if u want to actually know anything about a particular person or event, u have to go find out on ur own. I remember, we learned about the French Revolution, the dates, the guillotine and the 1 dimensional picture of an out-of-touch king and queen, who left their ppl to starve, while they partied. And that was it. Basically our teacher (who we had for 3-4 different subject, and who was mediocre to shit at them all) just read us a 1 page summary of a random book, coz she didnt know anything else herself. I was, however, very good friends with the local librarian, who loved to go digging in their basement to get the dusty books, no1 else wanted to read, for me.

@madamrockford2508

Жыл бұрын

Now wouldn't it be nice if our history teachers knew about what they were teaching beside the tired propganda that plagues the world's books, but then, history is often written by the winners, & truth often supressed.

@LoveAndSnapple

Жыл бұрын

Yes, the pen is mightier than the sword. We have to remember that IT just may want to teach us the right and proper things but they’re simply not enough time in a school year to teach us. Considering that if you’re taking world history, it means that there’s a certain amount of time to spend on poignant events and people. Anything that you want to know deeply you have to I have a go to your local library, museums, or college.

@maluribeiro68

Жыл бұрын

Well, consider then, this is a shallow show, they mentioned only a few things, this is just something done for fast public consumption ... An tried to attract people by a misleading title, when the main focus of this episode was mainly finances & Louis weakness ... imagine how much people have to learn to truly understand!

Fun fact, Marie was actually married to Louis XVI in a proxy marriage before they even met. So when actually they met for the first time they were already technically married. Marie's brother, Emperor Joseph II was sent by his mother to figure out why Louis and Marie didn't have any children. His description of the two was that they were two "Blunderers". He wrote that they probably didn't have any children so far due to a lack of education rather than inclination.

@butterflydiva72

9 ай бұрын

Indeed she was.

@kimm.8800

3 ай бұрын

That was the case for all princesses in those days. It was arranged marriages.

I think he was damned if he do and damned if he don’t. He was in an impossible situation caught in the middle of opposing people and he was used as a scapegoat. I feel terrible for him. His grandfather was a hardcore ruler who wasn’t afraid to get mean. A gentle soul is always going down in a situation like that.

@HabitualLover

Жыл бұрын

I would call him, not a gentle soul, but incompetent. Being gentle does not require sabotaging your own stability- that’s not gentle, but harsh toward the own person. He was a gentle soul, but it was the incompetence that sealed him.

@lucyhanks500

Жыл бұрын

@@HabitualLover that’s like saying a silent protest is effective? Would that also be sectioned under arrogance & cerebral narcissism, Or merely a veneer of peoples beauty and Grace?

@AvalonDreamz

Жыл бұрын

It's always the ones who try to do real good in society end up hated and scorned by the Elite garbage that surrounds them. Then they push for the publics hate as well. Thats how you know if someone is really trying to do good, the Elite class scorn these other wealthy people who try.

@lucyhanks500

Жыл бұрын

@@AvalonDreamz I’ve just had some loads of money Harry Enfield character on eBay calling himself eminem, guess what, he didn’t want to pay either lol. But I’m 41, di I thought I’d dip in his psyche, it must be rich, because as soon as he started messaging, my mother was strait in the smell. I made sure I ate my lunch in front of her though, to try to dispel the unpleasant power play, because I keep getting people telling me about the salesman’s handshake as a way of collecting purses.

@jenniferroach4153

Жыл бұрын

@@lucyhanks500 I have zero idea what you’re saying. Trying to read it and comprehend it actually gave me a headache.

The costuming and setting (which seems to legitimately be filmed on location at Versailles) of this doc is so splendid! It’s the stuff of daydreams, but also a striking visual of just how preposterous and unsustainable the Ancien Régime truly came to be.

@misselanys1219

10 ай бұрын

Exact same reason why I like to watch Sofia Coppola's movie. The set designs and the beautiful colorful wardrobe costumes are mind boggling. The dialogue though. YIKES!

Amazing how the rich don't change through history, how thier greed is always everyone's downfall. Disgusting how greedy they really are.

@griswald7156

Жыл бұрын

It reminds me of London….always money is found for London….but in the north ….just promises of money..

@amandaroberts1222

Жыл бұрын

Because that’s all they have,

@cezarstefanseghjucan

Жыл бұрын

@@amandaroberts1222 ... and their heads.

@andreychizov8201

Жыл бұрын

And you are Jesus Christ!

@vampcramp

9 ай бұрын

Greed , brutality, it's all so human

Funny how nothing changes. The rich feel incredibly entitled and are so removed from reality , now as in then.

@xryxix

Жыл бұрын

Honestly it is something else. I hope humanity genuinely learns from our history

@ariwilsonx

Жыл бұрын

Not removed from reality, we just live in different realities

@mbod2gigi

Жыл бұрын

A state of delusion far removed from any reality. Not a different reality but a state of indifference to the world around.

@suzbone

Жыл бұрын

@@yoyovon one couldn't approach the subject from a worse angle, and it's a genuine shame 😔

@happydays2300

Жыл бұрын

@@yoyovon Is that a law of physics? Because, if so, could you cite your sources. Otherwise, if you're quoting from the Bible, I'm pretty sure Jesus was referring to people, not stars, planets, comets, or other galactic items in the universe.

You can tell he was unlike the kings before him, because they would've imprisoned and seized the assets of nobles who opposed him. He may have triumphed if he had taken a page from their books.

@HabitualLover

Жыл бұрын

Wikipedia mentions Louis XVI was educated that timidity is a virtue for an absolute marc monarch. That's insane- because I don't know how timidity and monarch even fit in the same sentence. Wow. That level of delusion in a whole social class of people can only end the way it did end. That's really sad.

@lucyhanks500

Жыл бұрын

@@HabitualLover well you answered the comment above quite well.

@MM-yk7iz

Жыл бұрын

Them nobles were lucky I wasn’t king

@joycelynbrandon755

Жыл бұрын

He chose not to act like a tyrant.

@joycelynbrandon755

Жыл бұрын

Advocating cruelty is revealing about you.

This is a good documentary. I did learn a lot. Sadly, it is the rich (both left/right, conservative/liberal) who set taxes for each country. It is therefore the rich (both left/right, conservative/liberal, etc) who know how to avoid said taxes. Therefore, one should not be surprised to see them not support any law that will make them lose their wealth. It has always been up to the poorer masses to effect real change in each country. History has given us great examples of this fact. We need only look at the examples: of France, Russia in the early 1900s, the USA in late 1700s, China in the mid-1900s etc.

@lvmonkey77

Жыл бұрын

mans want to avoid helping ones fellow man makes me wonder about humanity as a whole. More over, i have to wonder about the future of our species, as well.

@AvalonDreamz

Жыл бұрын

These turds have more of a reach into society today than they did in the past. In the past people were pretty much united against Gov. Today you have all elites from entertainers all the way to the top stretching their grubby fingers into the minds of others filling them with bs lies wanting you to hate or like who THEY wish you to. It's aggravating to see others fall for the bs, truly.

@Margriet101

Жыл бұрын

To bad the people of France and Russia get a even more inmoral powerlust leader. (Dont know much about China's reign.) Maby Louis and Nicolas where not bad guys but they not realy wanted the role off king in that time. Sad that they and there family's maby be better off as normal people

@cezarstefanseghjucan

Жыл бұрын

There are no true left wing socialists that are super rich.

@cyang7850

3 ай бұрын

@@Margriet101 China nobility also lost touch with the people, same tragic ending, smh

I couldn't imagine making laws for a world you are not apart of. Ruling countless people and not knowing the price of bread.

@mitchellcline5738

Жыл бұрын

How much is a banana? About $10?

@jessicatripp5129

Жыл бұрын

The US Government in a nutshell. Lots of our Senators and Reps have millions and still write bad checks around DC.

I really have a lot of sympathy for the way Lous16 is portrayed in this rendition of his rule; not being a scholar, I can't corroborate this sympathetic rendering. But I do think that human history has always been a struggle between the "ordinary" working masses of people (of which I consider myself, despite my graduate education) against the entrenched greed of the institutions which are designed to amass wealth and power for itself. Most people want to live their lives peacefully, so the entrenched interests get away with greed and exploitation for some time, but at some point, their greed destroys the society so much that the people have nothing to lose but to rise up. I see that happening now in the USA, frankly.

@AvalonDreamz

Жыл бұрын

Yeah that is why they put Jan 6th on so they could dissuade anyone from "rising up" against their corruption. Hopefully more and more are not falling for it. I mean the court bs alone is just utter horse shit. Not how real court works at all but people seem ignorant to that fact. It is a show to tell you what will happen to you if you decide to "rise up" against your wealthy Elites in society.

@ey67

Жыл бұрын

True

@evelyn7881

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely

@VioletMagpie

Жыл бұрын

well said!

@BBB-rd2qi

Жыл бұрын

As a scholar of history myself, you explained it eloquently! Well done you.

A lot of the scenario that brought about the French Revolution describes the US now.

@debra1363

Жыл бұрын

Yes it does.The French revolutionaries(led by an overeducated upper class-not by peasants)who used the poverty and legitimate anger of the peasants for their own ends,which were,as they said,to force everyone to live in a "Republic of Virtue."Sounds chillingly familiar.

@leethrch

Жыл бұрын

@@debra1363 yes the fascist loving Trumpist!

@LadyDecember

Жыл бұрын

@@debra1363 If this trajectory keeps going, who knows when we'll enter the subsequent Reign of Terror period where thousands of people will be socially executed (i.e. lose their reputations, jobs, and be publicly humiliated) for the most minor of infractions.

@jessicatripp5129

Жыл бұрын

Look up 'The Jacquerie" (Hundred Years War) and the Rebellions that occurred towards the end of Louis XIV's reign due to Famine. The French literally originated "Eating the Rich" because cannibalism actually happened in peasant rebellion.

@eloisepersson939

3 ай бұрын

The land of the free. 😮

Thank you! I was waiting for that 'Let them eat cake' nonsense to rear its ugly head. Finally some real historical research has been done here. Unfortunately those boobs who keep using that phrase incorrectly do not watch these kind of shows. I love this channel!

@booliev3275

Жыл бұрын

Another one who get over the cake story... there were more than in the revolution.

@islandgal500

Жыл бұрын

@@booliev3275 I haven't any idea what you really mean, but will guess. Yes, I get annoyed with this one. It is a common misquote that keeps being used when people are trying to show off that they know historical facts. I have found many sources when it was incorrectly attributed to having been said by Marie A. There are so many mistakes in quotes and in historical facts but people keep insisting on passing on their ignorance to others. Others lap it up and pass it on again. It is refreshing to find a source where it isn't passed on further.

@Global_Havoc18

Жыл бұрын

do you know what show this is they are using on this video? I really like it and wanna watch it on its own :)

@Keralasha444

Жыл бұрын

@@Global_Havoc18 it looks like their own dramatization

@Keralasha444

Жыл бұрын

Doesn’t matter they were still incredibly detached from the people and that “quote” paints that beautifully

Millions of ordinary people were taxed to the hilt while the rich nobles paid virtually nothing. Sounds like the U.S.

@actuallyNo...

Жыл бұрын

Literally nothing Like that. French (and many other aristocrats a d royals of that era ) had to pay absolutely N O T H I N G EVER. Everyone in the USA is made to pay taxes, even if YOU or others feel they don't pay enough(it doesn't matter). Not a single soul in The U.S.no matter how important, is exempt from Taxation. [ONE of the many things EUROPE DID NOT LIKE about "Americans" IN THE BEGINNING OF U.S.America.]

@suze6288

Жыл бұрын

@@actuallyNo... thank you for your response. The filthy rich in the USA have been granted many loopholes by the Republican Party. I believe it’s about all paying their share of the social burden this burden should never fall on one class of people.

@user-qq3hj6pl8o

Жыл бұрын

the income inequality in the us is actually higher than it was in the french revolution 😀👍

@cararedhorn9876

Жыл бұрын

@@actuallyNo... The rich may not be exempt from taxes here in the US, but they sure know how to evade them.

@theburrowrises8549

Жыл бұрын

@@user-qq3hj6pl8o Income inequality isn't necessarily a bad thing. They have great income equality in countries such as Afghanistan...where everyone is poor. In America, there is the capability of income mobility.

I can't help but wonder if he had played one powerful class against the other - like, reform round #1 just targets the nobles, not the clergy, then he could make grand speeches about how he isn't going to tax the church but he needs the nobles to support the state's finances, then the clergy would have supported that as it got them off the hook and maybe it would have passed. Then, if they still needed more finances, he could have done reform round #2 that targets the clergy and the nobles would pass it to get revenge on the clergy having supported the first round.

The costuming, hair, art direction, etc in this documentary are absolutely stellar!

That lady's face at 47:58 is like "...Can we go back and pay the taxes instead..?"

@suzbone

Жыл бұрын

Omg nailed it

47:58 What Louis should have done at that moment is very simple, and it would have made for an incredible gesture. He should have ordered the stripping of all valuables from Versailles, right down to the mirrors in the Great Hall, anything that could be disassembled, moved, and sold to someone for cash. Then, disbursed the money for the benefit of the people. Sell everything he had personal control over and give it to the nation. Could have saved not only his life and the lives of his family, but might well have saved his crown.

@AsbestosMuffins

Жыл бұрын

you think these guys ever understood the wealth disparity they participated in? the tsars lead a system even more brutal and riven with poverty for generations and couldn't ever recognize the problem with keeping everyone poor

@tamarrajames3590

Жыл бұрын

You cannot eat money, and the King knew no mechanism by which he could relieve his subjects because he was isolated from them by the Clergy and the Nobility. He had long tried to accomplish a greater equality within his Nation…only to be blocked by the self interest of those same Nobles. Had he tried to sell off the Royal possessions, the Nobles, and those the Crown had borrowed from previously, would have seized whatever moneys were raised, and the People would have seen nothing of it. The Queen tried to sell her jewels for the benefit of the people, and the Nobility would not allow it. The wealthy assumed that Louis would use his military, and put down the common people ruthlessly, as they would have done themselves. Because he would not take arms against his subjects…there was no chance that he and his family would survive. There was simply too much distance between the King, and his understanding of the lives of his common subjects. Louis and Marie bore all the faults and failings of the Nobles and their greed…they stood as the symbols of every wrong against the commoners, who were never told of how hard he had tried to improve their lot in life.🖤🇨🇦

@dawnehelene59

Жыл бұрын

@@tamarrajames3590 I'd love to know where your bizarre and utterly inaccurate saga of "Bourbon bravery" is documented, because bluntly put, you're full of crap. As a historian, I'm stunned by your idiocy and as a woman, I'm revolted with any fellow female who attempts to make our sex look like a herd of blithering fools. Louis XVI was a WEAK, INEPT and pathetically WISHY-WASHY Monarch, as well as a man who wholeheartedly believed in the "Divine Right of the Monarchy." (regardless of his painfully rare and extraordinarily feeble attempt(s) at tax 'reform') This documentary portrays this accident of birth (and death....as "Daddy" croaked long before gaining the throne) in a ludicrously 'kind' manner. The ONLY TIME LOUIS XVI 'attempted' (kicking and screaming, I might add) to "improve" the "lot" of "his people," was under severe duress during that oh-so-brief, nano-second experiment (green cockade and all) of a "constitutional monarchy." Which of course he blew, via that clumsy escape attempt (disguised as a school teacher but traveling in a luxury 'Berliner', no less!) well known to history. And NO, "Marie" did NOT "attempt" to "sell her jewels," they were TAKEN FROM HER and broken up by the constitutional parliament. (although SURELY, you DO recall that Marie had some 8-million dollars worth of jewelry sewn into her bodice(s) at the time of her post escape capture, correct?) And of course, you CERTAINLY must be aware that, with the exception of the palace guard, not a bloody soldier in the whole of France would have taken up arms against a fellow french citizen from 1788-on, so LOATHED and HATED were Louis and Marie. She was an idiot airhead who gave HORRIBLE advice to her husband, (i.e...."kill the rabble") and worse, Louis was stupid enough to listen. If you're under 12, I forgive your stupidity and ask that you keep studying. If older, consider a career at McDonald's, Burger King...hell, even Taco Bell.....anything but the history of late 18th century France.

@teresachavez.a2zen

Жыл бұрын

@@tamarrajames3590 Indeed. This is the problem with having the wealthy as part of the government. Of course they wouldn't agree with anything that affected their wealth/greed and they obviously didn't care for the royal family as much as they let on. Yet another example of what truly rules countries. Wealth and greed.

@tamarrajames3590

Жыл бұрын

@@teresachavez.a2zen So sadly true. The Monarch’s themselves have an interest in keeping their subjects happy, but the wealthy and powerful of the Church and the Nobility have a vested interest in keeping the Ruler as separate from the commoners as is possible. This enables them to keep their own money, and to siphon off funds intended for the more needy strata of society. Greed, and it’s machinations are hard things to overcome in those who stand close to power.🖤🇨🇦

Why Loius 14 who made this Versailles thing and spended extremely lavishly did not get overthroned, while this guy who tried to tax the nobility gets executed by the people of his kingdom? It seems like that he had to choose a side, but he never did it firmly. So eventualy someone else chose to kill him and his family.

@alexsnezh

Жыл бұрын

Louis XIV disliked and distrusted the Nobles, and held them in a firm grip. There formed a kind of alliance between the Commoners and the King against the Nobles.

@moodylittleowl

11 ай бұрын

One thing a king back then could not afford was to be weak - and he was. louis XIV was objectively much worse person, but a stronger leader so he was fine

as much as it is important to remember them as humans, no ammount of humanizing could ever make me feel sympathetic towards rich royals eating well while people starve.

This is happening now in America, lower class being taxed to the hills, while the rich not paying their share.

@karenwaddell9396

Жыл бұрын

Former preesident did not pay any taxes in 4years and $750 for 2 years. What a crock!

@daniburke9452

9 ай бұрын

​@karenwaddell9396 well maybe someone should change the laws

@VAHOSS

8 ай бұрын

​@karenwaddell9396 that is a straight up lie. he paid hundreds of millions. At a much higher percentage than your lover, BO, and HC

I feel bad for the king and queen. The queen was just a pawn in a political game and it’s not like she really could have refused the marriage. The people turned their anger towards a person simply because of her original nationality. The king stood even less of a chance. Reform taxes and get killed by the elites, or not and get killed by the populous… BTW- I am appalled that the US didn’t pay them back in trade at that time. As a US veteran I can say it appears that my country has been abandoning it’s allies since it’s inception…..and continues to do so….

@mattiemathis9549

Жыл бұрын

@Chuck's poke Right!!! I felt somewhat ashamed by that…😳

@xminusone1

Жыл бұрын

They didn't pay. But france had the choice to help or not. Also, France abandoned us, french canadians and acadians to england.

@sophieruby9135

Жыл бұрын

The U.S. saved France from the Nazis, that's something.

@steveholmes3471

Жыл бұрын

@@xminusone1 *Britain

@joycelynbrandon755

Жыл бұрын

The newly formed United States had no Treasury to repay debts. Washington paid his troops from his own pocket. Revolutionary War vets were granted land in the Northwest territory. America had land but no cash.

Seems like the same thing is happening today. The poorer classes pay for the rich.

@paulheinrichdietrich9518

Жыл бұрын

It's always been the same.

@AsbestosMuffins

Жыл бұрын

no see the rich should be rewarded, so we must starve to support them

@chynnadoll3277

Жыл бұрын

“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun.” - Ecclesiastes 1:9.

@Jerseyboondocks

Жыл бұрын

@@chynnadoll3277 Absolutely true

@williamhilbert8324

Жыл бұрын

The rich get richer and the poor take it without grease been going on for thousands of years

Very educating. The way they are portrayed in schools here were just indecisive and corrupt. Had no idea that they were fighting to change this, except the indecisive part. Had he fought harder, I feel he'd be the Luis the great.

This may have been a society whose time was up but it's a cycle that repeats itself.

I enjoyed watching and learned a lot. I feel sorry for both the king and queen. They were misunderstood and were only blamed for the many problems they inherited from their predecessors.

Incredibly well done! This just became one of my most well-liked YT channels. Keep up the outstanding work!

Versailles sounds like the DC swamp. I can't really tell the difference.

@DJL78

Жыл бұрын

Says the person who has never been to Versailles or DC. 🤡

@gordonspond8223

Жыл бұрын

@@DJL78 I was born in Europe, grew up about 4 hour drive from Paris. Lived in US since 1990. Visited both places (and about 30 countries on top of that) before I was 25. What is it with you libtards and your incessant arrogance, ignorance and stupidity? You would've fit right in with the Versailles crowd...

@suzbone

Жыл бұрын

@@DJL78 says the person who added so much value to the conversation 🙄

@rachelwyatt9529

Жыл бұрын

Obviously you don’t know what you’re talking about

@tomadumas2939

Жыл бұрын

You mean the swamp that is full of idiots who say Trump won the election 🤡

Guess she should've married the one we call Mozart! LOL ;-)

@ashleelarsen5002

Жыл бұрын

That's intense, wow 🤙

So the issue wasn't that Louis was an incompetent ruler it was just the fact that the nobles didn't want to help him make changes Until it was too late😔

I learned a LOT from this EXCELLENT presentation!

Marie Antoinette always fascinated me and I don't know why.

With seismic shifts in history (such as this)-I can’t help but ponder what the world would currently be like, if events had gone the other way…🤔

yes i love this channel 🙌🏼

Can you imagine the buzz kill of having onlookers? I would be beyond uncomfortable. You'd think SOMEONE would say, "Hey, Louie, move it around a bit in there." The actual written accounts mention that they giggled a lot together, and seemed completely inept. Well DUH. And, this is important, I think, in that, these two virgins did NOT just "figure it out," together. A simple tutorial, and some privacy, would have save them a lot of misery.

@lvmonkey77

Жыл бұрын

there are people that do this now, for money, on camera, in front of a whole camera crew. The difference is that if one of 'the crew' told a monarch what to do and how, they could be put to the sword for embarassing them. I think only jesters or minstrels were the only ones that could speak like that to a noble and not lose their heads... well, some times...

@happydays2300

Жыл бұрын

@@lvmonkey77 This is true, it would have meant their life. Maybe they could have couched it in a play, a mis en scene? And, lol, I know people who would LOVE an audience. As for porn and the crew, have you ever heard the expression that there's nothing more boring than whoring? They are inured to it. But these two virgin teens weren't porn stars, much to the dismay of the French who expected his Grandfather's prowess and style. Mon Dieu, he HAD NO MISTRESS.

Thanks for posting

Fascinating and informative. Brings to mind the words of George Santayana: Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

This channel has me transfixed. Damn, once I start watching, it's so difficult to stop.

Well done. Thanks a lot. 🥰

Imagine if you will History repeating itself... this isn't the Twilight Zone but real life. Tell me I'm wrong.

@rachelk4805

Жыл бұрын

I think you are right but I hope you are wrong.

@berrios181

Жыл бұрын

The rich has never wanted to pay their fair share. Eben more so today with the tech Oligarchs.

@actuallyNo...

Жыл бұрын

History ALWAYS repeats itself.

@AvalonDreamz

Жыл бұрын

Well we are all such idiots we don't look at the past and figure out ways to avoid. But allow those with more money and wealth to continue this game with society, dividing us up against one another. With their delusional bs, not caring about truth or facts or the chaos they cause in society. They don't have to live among us, so they don't care. I wish people would fully realize this and stop playing their political games they love to distract us with and use against us.

I mean, I do understand why rich people always want to hoard all the resource and not share, but the chutzpah of arguing against a fairer society within your own country, just because you’re so greedy… this is hard for me to imagine.

Also that’s what happened nowadays too . The rich don’t pay taxes.

Awesome!! Thank you.

Very interesting video. Highlights some things i didnt knew, together with familiar things i did knew

I would love to have worked wardrobe on this production. Stunning work!

I get tired of hearing that they didn't bathe.No,people did not take daily full baths as it was a lot of work to heat water and fill and empty tubs unless you were very wealthy.(Marie Antoinette did bathe every day.)Perfume was not used to "mask" body odors but was mixed with water in a bowl with which people took daily sponge baths.People took the occasional tub bath when they were able,and peasants bathed 8n lakes or rivers.People in the past were as human as we were.We don't enjoy going around dirty and sticky and stinky,why would they?This is on a par with those who seriously believe that Versailles had no toilets and that people just took a dump in the great hall and people tolerated it.We seem to have the view that people in past times were not even human.Why?

@nancydrew9997

Жыл бұрын

but there were no toilets during that time

@debra1363

Жыл бұрын

@@nancydrew9997 Toilets did exist in the 1700s albeit only in very wealthy homes.It has been established that they did exist at Versailles in the 18th century.Of course after the fall of Rome cities did not have sewage systems but wealthy estates did have septic tanks.Poor people 8n cities did continue unfortunately to throw their waste out of windows but more and more people had what we would now call an "outhouse".My point is that all 5hrough human history,people have done as much as they could to keep their persons and their surroundings clean.In case I was not clear earlier,Ancient Rome did indeed have flush toilets and city sewer systems,and inside running water for sinks and bathtubs.Very wealthy homes even had HOT running water,and floors heated with same 8n pipes under the floors.All this knowledge was lost after the fall of Rome and was gradually being rediscovered and put to use by the time places like Versailles were being built.

@Sarah-gm6oq

Жыл бұрын

Kkkkkkkkk os até hoje os Franceses são conhecidos por não terem uma higiene grande coisa é tu tá me dizendo que aquele povo de quase 300 anos atrás tomava banho com frequência?? Kkkkk piada pronta

Welp, this (as well as many many many other instances) just goes to show that nobility (which technically still exists to a point, they’re just called the rich in the US) are utterly useless, selfish, and greedy power hungry bastards who have zero qualms about crushing other human beings to keep their power. I actually pity Louis and Marie, they seem like really decent people who just had no idea how to handle this situation, they should have cleaned house regarding the nobility, would have not only saved their lives but also the country. Finally, I find it hilarious that this show shows about 10 min on their sex life and the rest is all politics and their story as king/queen.

Hans Holbein the younger is one of my favorite painters! The others are Vermeer, Anthony Van Dyke, Jan Van Eyck and Rembrandt.

I just love history❤️

Thanks!

exselent movies please continue

29:10 But she's holding that beautiful flower in her hand! 🤣😅😆

16:30 Canadian here, and I want to say that the French as evidenced here is slightly mistranslated (or at least Canadian French, parison french may be different) but "demain" means tomorrow, not as the subtitles say soon.

The whole part after the first son was born felt like a fever dream especially with that hot air balloon lol Idk why but the era itself gives me anxiety, bad vibes .. Versailles, in its entirety, is extremely creepy …

@kelly_villalobos

9 ай бұрын

Why?

@gic8849

9 ай бұрын

@@kelly_villalobos because it’s so ..fake. And creepy. They lived in a land of make believe while the rest of the country literally starved to death. It was awful. Truly awful.

I wish there was a channel for USA history.

45:57 - One thing: it isn't philanthropy if the help you're giving is just peanuts in comparison to what you still own and the help doesn't really cost you anything nor requires a substantial sacrifice from you. That's just posing as "the oh such a good person".

@suzbone

Жыл бұрын

**cough cough musk cough cough**

It's a good documentary but the idea to put "sex" in the title to make it clickbait is absolutely pathetic and puts the whole thing into an ugly light - you're welcome

@ThinWhiteAxe

6 ай бұрын

Agreed. I was pleasantly surprised by the actual content of the documentary, but the title is really cringeworthy.

The poor guy was scrutinised at everything he did or didn't do. The pressure was too much I bet he was always stressed and tired. At least he wasn't too lazy like some mordern leaders who reap where they did not sow.

Louis and Antoinette were teenagers who had little to no understanding of sex, and the pressure to bear children was placed on them at a young age. They went years without consummating their marriage because of their lack of education, and it wasn't until Antoinette's brother Joseph II came to educate them that Antoinette became pregnant in 1778, more than seven years after they were married. If that level of disadvantage doesn't sound horrifying, then I don't know what does.

Far too many adverts but maybe if Louis had sold advertising space he would have made enough not to worry

This should get the award for most misleading title.

Thanks.

He Palace of Versailles is amazing, definitely worth the trip

We still do not tax the rich fairly.

@resnonverba137

Жыл бұрын

Zzzz...

21:02 see?! *Trolling isn’t a new hobby!!* 🤣💗👍

watched the whole video without an ad wow

Who’s the actor playing Louis? He looks familiar.

I can just imagine people during that time in the French court saying, there goes Jacques pissing in the corner again. 😂

thanks

Dwight Shrute: "Who is the King of England?!" Benjamin Franklin: "Why the Tyrant King GEORGE OF COURSE!"

By not coughing up a little dough, the aristocracy signed up for a much worse fate.

My favorite part, France was ruling over it own colony in the americas. And had been for longer than the English had been in the americas. Quebec City was at the time known as New France (la Nouvelle France) Im half French Canadian directly Descendant from Louis 14 (and other blue blood nobility) and other half is native Canadian… i often joke that I’m the OG Canadian because of this. French men met Native women long before the English began to settle…

@mantronixtube

Жыл бұрын

this was so cool to read !

@KH-wy7le

Жыл бұрын

And?

@CBrown86

Жыл бұрын

French Canadians are such cool people. Great senses of humor

@suzbone

Жыл бұрын

@@KH-wy7le hypocrite 🙄

@KH-wy7le

Жыл бұрын

@@suzbone. How do you work that out?

Wow! Not what I thought I knew at all!

I see this reuploaded everywhere! Its really annoying cos i get excited about new content only to find its the same documentary ive seen a million times

@natalieelizabeth6062

Жыл бұрын

YES! I’ve seen this same documentary twice already and this is the third I’ve come across it in a different title. It’s very misleading and disappointing

@ariac1197

Жыл бұрын

@@natalieelizabeth6062 right?! Driving me insane

The greed sounds like today

I can't help but wonder what part, if any, the nobility and clergy played in deliberately fomenting revolution in order to get rid of an inconvenient monarch.

Nothing can change human stupidity...so sad!

The King was modern, forward-looking, but too weak. He wasn't like his grandfather, King Louis XIV who never forgot to make people respect him.

@SC-gw8np

Жыл бұрын

He sounds like he was gracious (or magnanimous) to a fault, like he thought being more severe would be cruel.

@samanthasmith61

Жыл бұрын

@@SC-gw8np idk how smart he was when he offered Marie Antoinette the most expensive necklace in Europe, which she declined

Anyone know the name of the classical song at the start of the documentary?

Does anybody know the name of the movie that they are narrating over?

Cannot help but feel sorry for this ill-fated naive couple, the ultimate irony being that unlike his predecessors Louis actually wanted his poorer subjects to have a better lot in life.

@Vlolil

3 ай бұрын

Oh for sure ‘naive couple, acting like they were teens when the revolution happened 😂 they were grown adults, the Queen was almost hitting 40

Thank you!!! Marie NEVER said “let them eat cake”. So many people think they know their history because they know of one phrase related to her, but there is no proof she ever said that. The French people hated her from the start because she was Austrian and when the french people were upset and starving she was an easy target to blame her for all of their problems. I loved Louis and Marie for so many reasons (not for their failures) but for being relatable because they were human. They were children when they were forced to get married (14-15) and they were so young when they were told they must produce an heir. Just because a young guy/teenager isn’t ready or doesn’t want to consummate the marriage right away doesn’t make him “gay”. Most young guys his age don’t know what their doing either (especially for their first time). There was so much pressure on both of them to consummate their marriage. Now being forced to marry as a young teenager to a girl who is a stranger to him and someone he doesn’t love yet with the whole world watching his every move and perhaps never had or was too embarrassed to have the “birds and the bees” talk with anyone because he was so shy (not to mention being intimate was painful for him until he surgically had things repaired). So I can see him wanting to wait to be intimate with his wife too. He was interested in his hobbies (lock making/hunting) like all young boys do at that age in history but as time passed (and with some much needed advice on how things work between a man and a woman) and the years getting to know and fall in love with his wife (and things finally being restored on his body). He was finally ready to be intimate with her. That’s normal! Also we have come along way in history and the rich do finally get taxed greatly already but some people out there in the lower and middle classes still want them taxed more because they are jealous of their success and wealth. If you work hard and made good money because of it the government shouldn’t be so eager to tax the heck out of you until you are left with nothing. Still many people out there want to live off of the rich by taxing them to death so they don’t have to go out and work for themselves. I believe what the Bible says, “if you don’t work, you won’t eat”. It’s people like our politicians (the Democrats and some Republicans) who want to tax the heck out of its people and live off of it. Fueling their jets and cooling or heating their million dollar homes. While the rest of us live in the slums, with crime and homelessness rampant everywhere we go. Marie and Louis made mistakes based on their youth and at times the immature way of dealing with the pressures around them but they were young and ill prepared to rule their country period! They both paid the ultimate price for their mistakes too unfortunately but I don’t dwell on the tragedy that met with them. I remember the young monarchs who did what they thought was best ultimately in a time of little education in running a country and great pressure on both of them to conform to and be pulled by other older and “wiser” peoples agendas for them. In my opinion, these advisers also had a part to play in the overthrow of the monarchy and their eventual death too. To me this couple hold a special place in history for me because despite everything, I feel for them. For what they went through and despite it all, they still tried to do what they thought was best and what was expected of them despite their young age and inexperience.

have you considered that maybe just maybeee louis was asexual or on the ace spectrum or the fact he was literally 15 when he got married

@vermicious6571

Жыл бұрын

Who are you asking exactly?

@user-qq3hj6pl8o

Жыл бұрын

@@vermicious6571 it’s rhetorical question babe

@julia-cg1sc

Жыл бұрын

no he had a problem which made sex really painful but it was fixed 7 years onto his marriage, he had 4 children after that

It's very little to do about their sex life, more to do with the king's reign and their demise.

@ThinWhiteAxe

6 ай бұрын

I find that more interesting honestly, I was pleasantly surprised. But I do kind of resent the clickbaitness of the title.

The Costumes Amazing

USA, 2022 - a lot of this sounds really familiar.

Your videos keep getting age restricted, I was watch the video about Louis the 15th and now the video is age restricted

Great info and commentary, but ..Are these clips from a film? These actors are talented and very acurately costumed.

How nice of these people, making these images and released to us, 250 years later!

Here me make it simple for dum dums : he should have sided with the poor people. There were more poor people than rich people And rich people can't fight. They've never had to. The hungry will always fight harder than the gluttonous

@tamarrajames3590

Жыл бұрын

The structure of the Court and protocol was deliberately set up and maintained to keep the King ignorant of the lives and struggles of his common subjects. He had no means of finding out for himself what the Church and the Nobility kept him ignorant of. He was not even permitted to dress himself, because each Courtier of sufficient rank reserved the right to place a specific garment on his person, to do it himself would have been to diminish the status of the Courtier, and ensure their opposition to his goals.🖤🇨🇦

@suzbone

Жыл бұрын

Nailed it 🔨

@daisyadele967

Жыл бұрын

The rich have power that the poor doesn't.

To be honest if it wasn't for King Louie's decision to help the Americans and their Revolution we would not be where we're at right now as a country thanks to King Louie's decision long live the king

WAY too many ads in the presentation and from KZread interrupting not only paragraphs but sentences!

He had a fimosis which can be painful he had an operation poor king

it's a pity that nearing the end of this film, the maker neither showed to 80 women who stormed the palace, nor that it was the Marquis de Lafayette [Highly placed in the National Convention] was on the balcony, & that it was he, was who after kneeling & kiss her hand, did the crowd calm down, & afterwards, go the Paris.

@WolfRoseQUEEN

Жыл бұрын

When I hear the name Marquis de Lafayette I always think of Hamilton

Marie Antoinette did nothing wrong.

@incognito9718

Жыл бұрын

She didn’t do something right as well.

@thenablade858

5 ай бұрын

She didn’t do much right other than being a patron to Vigee-Lebrun and a few opera composers like Sacchini. Louis bought the Chateau de Saint-Cloud for her in 1785, which cost 6 million livres. She opposed reform and popular finance ministers like Turgot. She was absolutely politically unintelligent and unaware of what was occurring.

Just did my 23 and me. I’m somewhat related to king Louis the XVI