And yet these people had the nerve to call Native Americans “uncivilized”

@cristinadriviera8144

2 жыл бұрын

Bitch Pudding+ i was thinking the same.

@katlynklassen809

2 жыл бұрын

It is a very good example of the European tendancy toward smug condescension.

@latsnojokelee6434

2 жыл бұрын

Supposedly the Native Americans could smell the US cavalry about 2 miles away if the wind blew in the right direction. If you can imagine wearing heavy woolen uniforms and sweating and being covered in horse sweat and not bathing properly.

@xelaphilia

2 жыл бұрын

Because you think the native Americans were so hygienic. Right ;)

@bitchpudding2945

2 жыл бұрын

@@xelaphilia more hygienic than the nobles of Versailles

I hate to imagine what physical intimacy was like back then. 🤮

@lilpudd1

2 жыл бұрын

I know right…..so nasty 🤮🤮🤮

@get2myhead

2 жыл бұрын

good grieff 🤢🤢

@teresajadia3291

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing 🤮🤢

@mrsdiaz7712

2 жыл бұрын

i think that’s the first thought on everyone’s minds at first then i think that’s why there was so much infant death i mean can you imagine what the females were like down there omg disgusting

@angellmariaaxoxo24

2 жыл бұрын

😐🤢

It's been said that Marie-Antoinette was horrified when she saw - and likely smelled - Versailles. She essentially dragged bathing etiquette with her from her native Austria and it was another notch against her to the courtiers, as she was seen as eccentric and even vain due to her regular bathing. Modesty dictated that she wear a linen chemise while submerged in what might be called a fragrant broth. Flowers, oils, perfumes, even pine nuts. Post bath, she would rub sweet almond oil into her skin for a moisturizer, often cut with neroli or violet. Let me tell you, if you suffer from dry skin in the winter, sweet almond oil is the best thing I've ever used.

@ironcladvee6229

Жыл бұрын

Said by who? Marie Antoinette had literal horses, donkeys, pigs, foxes, cats, dogs, birds and more all running loose in Versailles bc she loved animals. Hygiene would not have been a concern of hers.

@jamiegibsn7543

Жыл бұрын

@@ironcladvee6229 you can love animals and take baths

@ironcladvee6229

Жыл бұрын

@@jamiegibsn7543 Coincidently it seems prolific animal lovers always smell and have fur or hair on them.

@danarzechula3769

Жыл бұрын

Poor Marie

@anunluckyguy7586

Жыл бұрын

@@ironcladvee6229 do you live in the us? now i know to never go there lol

I loved this! Most documentaries just talk about how elegant the place was, the gardens, the architecture, fashion, etc. I have heard about how the introduction of a lot of sugar had a huge effect - people's teeth falling out, deaths from diabetes - and it took them quite some time to make the connection.

@TypeOneg

Жыл бұрын

People still haven't made the connection.

@MoniqueangeliqueLumpkin

9 ай бұрын

YES MEDIVIEAL AND XVII CENTURY FRANCE KNEW ABOUT DIABETICS THAT IS WHY THEY DRANK 3 CUPS OF FRENCH LILAC TEA DAILY, HUM ORIGIN OF TODAY METAFORMIN. SOME DID DIET AS TODAY THEY LIKED TO PIG OUT PIG . IROQUOIS, FIVE NATIONS KNEW DENTAL HIGIEYNE VIA NATURE. HUM SO MANY PEOPLE OF TODAY HAVE FALSE THEETS. RESEARCH, MOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN. AS A FRANCO AMERICAIN I'M AN EXPERT ON FR CULTURE. GREAT ADMIROR OF LOUIS XIV, BAROQUE, VERSAILLES, AND LA MONTESPAN.

I don’t understand how they were able to build such elaborate palaces like this yet couldn’t figure out how to make a tooth brush, or some form of deodorant.

@evirareid1500

3 жыл бұрын

Or like to splash around in a cool stream once a week ffs...

@MarileneSawaf

3 жыл бұрын

because they did not see the need for it

@Ash-od1ps

3 жыл бұрын

@@MarileneSawaf pretty sure a lot of them even believed regular bathing was bad for you

@Tinyfurball

3 жыл бұрын

I know right? I always loved the Historical buildings like the ones they had and clothing. But my God. Wtaf?.....!!!!

@daphne4983

3 жыл бұрын

They used wine with herbs in the late middle ages.

I read somewhere sometime ago that "Paris is known as the capital of perfumes because it was filled with stench that its people would create different kinds of perfumes just to cover up the stink" and now I know that this is 100% true in the terms of logic.

@bullettooth44

2 жыл бұрын

Pepe LePew came from truth

@jme104

Жыл бұрын

You're a racist .

@itaachiii

Жыл бұрын

i just dread to think what his mistresses used to go through everyday, jeesh....

@kaddyd1815

Жыл бұрын

The Russian court was known to use perfumes for the same reason….

@patremagilbert8787

Жыл бұрын

True

I went to Versailles 10 years ago. It’s in a forest kind of in the middle of nowhere. I can confirm that it is odorless now. While picturing people hauling water by hand in and out of the various apartments, dealing with all the waste etc., is wild to think about, it baffles me why the king didn’t try to reduce the amount of people living and visiting there to help keep it cleaner.

@nikemaraje5

Жыл бұрын

I live right next to Versailles and it's not really "in the middle of nowhere"... But yeah it's odorless now

@TypeOneg

Жыл бұрын

He was paranoid extremely paranoid. He needed all of the aristocracy in his country to live in his Palace so that they would not conspire against him. Well they did anyway but that's another story

@abacale

Жыл бұрын

Yes I went last month very clean and odorless, perfection 👍

@MsClepsydra

Жыл бұрын

He moved the aristocrats away from Paris and into the Versailles to "control" them and make Versailles a power center he thought he'd be able to supervise at all times.

@thyong24

11 ай бұрын

I also went there last month, perfection. Although as I toured the princesses “apartment” chambers, I noticed didn’t see or read anything related to bathroom. So this video came to my attention at a right time.

When Queen Catherine came from Spain to live with Henry, she was disgusted how filthy it was in England. She had adopted the bathing almost every day from the Muslims in Spain.

so it's a palace for the filthy rich......literally

@ArtHistorywithAlder

3 жыл бұрын

😂

@VictoriaWhitlock

3 жыл бұрын

Omg

@lorenjones3662

3 жыл бұрын

I just snorted diet coke out of my nose.

@scruffy281

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@michellelewis9519

3 жыл бұрын

It sad they are rich why can't they have better hydrogen

Versailles during that time looks like a sims house I built that one time when I forgot to put toilets and all my sims were just crapping everywhere.

@DogFlamingoXIII

3 жыл бұрын

It's more like the "No excuse" achievement you can get in Sims 4, where someone pees on the floor, despite there being at least five toilets. That happened far more often than I'd like to admit. ">.>

@lrowerowe7207

3 жыл бұрын

LOL

@lennym1273

2 жыл бұрын

You actually made me laugh out loud...

@therealharleyquinn7547

2 жыл бұрын

this is now one of my favorite comments i've ever seen! thank you :)

@ryanvelez6762

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

When visiting Versailles with a tour group many years ago on a rainy day there was heavy smell of old wet wood. I guess that was a heavenly scent compared to what occupants endured in the 1700's.

@margaretdasilva5493

2 жыл бұрын

I went with a tour group too! They are so much fun. Also saw Britain which was my favourite.

@immortalxd6190

Жыл бұрын

@@margaretdasilva5493 nice 👍🏻

@immortalxd6190

Жыл бұрын

Haha for sure

Can you imagine going back in time thinking its gonna be awesome like the TV shows and movies. Only to see this?

@NostalgiaEdits111

Жыл бұрын

It would still be amazing!

@kimberlyplatt2382

Жыл бұрын

@@NostalgiaEdits111 it would for the first few minutes. Until the smells start kicking in.

@beautymore5224

Жыл бұрын

You will teach them better or they will hang you for your ideas

@mnsadvkta

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

The visual artists were having way too much fun making this video.

@Pumkin932

3 жыл бұрын

They even snuck the head bobbing cat meme in there.

@ashleyr2014r

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂 i loveeee it

@RatedArggg

3 жыл бұрын

I had fun watching.

@nw4978

2 жыл бұрын

Seriously though! 🤣

@greenor3

2 жыл бұрын

9:13 😂

Still to this day, in French, a way to say, “I need to go to the bathroom,” can be said as,” J’ai besoin du petit coin/I need the little corner.” It’s an expression from Versailles and the urinating nobles.

@rustynail8925

2 жыл бұрын

In north of England lad , we've always said , just goin shitter luv , and when you've finnished you are expected to be polite if it smells and warn people by saying , I'd give it 5 if i were you

@frenchtoast7742

2 жыл бұрын

😂🤣 WHAATT ?? I don’t know where you heard that expression but I never heard that expression in my lifetime! And I am French ! We do not say that all ! 🤣🙄

@truefalse934

2 жыл бұрын

@@frenchtoast7742 does it depend on what region you’re from. Where I live there are some common cultural sayings that vary from what part of the country you’re from Even in the US what region you’re from can influence what type of language you use (ex; “soda” v “pop” v “cola,” or “firefly” v “lightning bug”

@nattybynature1262

2 жыл бұрын

@@frenchtoast7742 I'm not French but I am from a somewhat francophone country and have heard actual French people using "le petit coin" 😅

@matthewjay660

2 жыл бұрын

@@frenchtoast7742 Salut Pain Perdu. 🙋🏻‍♂️ Je suis professeur de français avec 2 diplômes universitaires : ma licence et ma maîtrise en français. Je vous promets et je vous jure que l’expression > vient des nobles de Versailles et veut dire > Merci pour votre réponse. Co co ri co! 🧏🏻‍♂️👨🏻‍🏫🇫🇷

It's incredible how people in Versailled used to adopt the culture and the habits of Discord Mods so well

An inverted siphon system, along with glass covered clay pipes, was used for the first time in the palaces of Crete, Greece. It is still in working condition, after about 3000 years. The Ancient Romans had bath houses and indoor plumbing. Hygiene was very important. Honestly, I think in Versailles case. It was a cultural thing. They just didn’t give a crap (no pun intended) All that sexing, drinking, eating was taking its toll. There wasn’t too much put on formality or priorities. Excess opulence. Hence the reason why France 🇫🇷 is now a republic.

@mlw9195

Жыл бұрын

Nope

@fatallyfatcat5274

11 ай бұрын

They didn't give a crap. In old royal palace in Poland they had underground sewage system and lead water pipes since XVI-th century and before that they had bathrooms with ancient medieval design of a hole through a tower floor, 8m drop and a river on the bottom.

@abiean222

6 ай бұрын

well, after a year of everyone having to piss in the hallways, toilets overflowing, and the smell, anyone would just accept it as normal, because what else are you to do?

modern people tend to underestimate how easily people can become desensitized to bad smells after prolonged exposure

@mats7492

3 жыл бұрын

THIS

@imastatistic8347

3 жыл бұрын

When the English came over to the new world Native Americans were disgusted bu their smell and hygiene practices. Watching this I don’t blame them

@sitaramdeen4922

2 жыл бұрын

True

@nataliemoonsings

2 жыл бұрын

@@imastatistic8347 I read somewhere the English even made fun of the native Americans for bathing all the time

@g0thfae

2 жыл бұрын

When I was younger I went to a friend's house and it was my first and last time going. Long story short it was a straight up depression house and I'm not talking about the era. When I walked in, a sour like funky smell hit me in the face and at some point he told me his cats have been relieving themselves behind his PC, I looked and he was absolutely right- it was just a massive pile of shit on top of a bunch of cords/wires. About the only thing to eat there was ramen and the (single) mom stayed in her room away from her own children who entertained each other in the filthy, dark and dank living room. By the time I left his house and got fresh air my throat was burning because I had gotten used to the pungent smell of his house. Like, we've never been financially well ourselves, but jfc even a homeless person would live a cleaner life than them

I can’t believe people lived like this back then yet alone rich people. Explains why life expectancy was so much lower back then cause they were gross.

@Concerned_Robot

3 жыл бұрын

I can’t believe modern women actually romanticize this time period and country....

@cyrenanorris5397

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. The clothes were pretty and that's about it.

@Pumkin932

3 жыл бұрын

@@Concerned_Robot They likely have no clue outside of movies and tv.

@oscarlpf1

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty to see but very uncomfortable to wear

@ukeyaoitrash2618

3 жыл бұрын

@@oscarlpf1 so are cosplays and we like those to XD

Can you imagine the smoky, rich, natural musk that Louis must have cultivated over a life time of funk mixed with spicy perfumes. It's something modern folks could never appreciate, but I'm sure it was the envy of his time.

@shamaraoconnor458

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao…you are something else…really made me laugh. Such an initiate portrayal of his musk…🤣. So you appreciate it only hope you don’t practice it.

@huletnadof313

2 жыл бұрын

Your comment needs more likes.

@Yourcheerz

Жыл бұрын

He became Kouros

@beburs

Жыл бұрын

down bad

Some say bathing was indeed dangerous due to untreated water full of cholera and feces bacterias, thriving in an overpopulated city and bad sewage system. That why many were drinking wine instead of water, which lead to alcoholism for many but it was safer than getting cholera or dysenthria .

In researching for a thesis, I ran across several traveler's letters of that period that commented on the terrible odor of Versailles wafting in the breezes from was miles away. I researched it myself, and read a number of these accounts of courtiers relieving themselves in hallways and public corners, thousands of people living there and only 2 actual" bathrooms" , one being Louis' and one, his favorite of the moment. When I referenced them in a the comments on a You Tube video about Versailles, I was attacked viciously by a number of commentators who assailed my sources, called me a liar and accused me of making it all up. I was offended and am grateful for this vindication.

@HoneyBakedHam7

3 жыл бұрын

Just curious, what were your sources?

@beelot1511

3 жыл бұрын

cite your sources.

@irenec7665

3 жыл бұрын

It was common knowledge until the early 2000s, when everyone became so delicate about history, and started to revision it, to make it look better.

@sharonbarton1888

3 жыл бұрын

I was on vacation in France in the 80s, let me tell you, the narrow streets stunk of urine. You had too stay on the main roads in the town. While there we constantly had to request bath towels, hotel management thought we were nuts because we bathed so much, the people had body odor and their hair was greasy. We were in Nice and Cannes. This was in th 80s. Hygiene at that time was questionable in France and we were staying in the Lowe's on the Riviera!

@MrQwertypoiuyty

3 жыл бұрын

@@HoneyBakedHam7 Watch renowned French Historians talking about hygiene in Versailles: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dIuNq8mqfairYtI.html You're asking sources? There are more than a dozen French Historians in the youtube video I shared above; with their names shown - unlike skeptical people like you who don't want to reveal their full names hiding behind usernames.

When you visit Versailles, it's hard to imagine how nasty it must gave been.

@aleiferthenorthman7935

3 жыл бұрын

its impeccable lmao everything coated in gold in every damn room haha

@Jylart

3 жыл бұрын

It's such a beautiful place!!

@paulcowlishaw

3 жыл бұрын

Have I assume you mean

@rabbit0877

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. The Hall of mirrors is gorgeous!! The thought of pigs running around and standing puddles of….water everywhere blows my mind. Like, I cannot fathom it.

@ArtHistorywithAlder

3 жыл бұрын

Seriously. I'm happy to just view it today and not go back in time haha

Is this where the term "filthy rich" came from? 😂😂

@tld8630

Жыл бұрын

Good one !..👏

@sythiadawn

Жыл бұрын

Oh poop! You beat me to it!😂😂😂

@thomashunter5707

15 күн бұрын

Probably they stank to high heaven and didn’t smell it or no who was causing the stink yuck 😂😂😂😂😂😂

I went to Versailles in Jan 2023 and even though it was bitterly cold, you could still detect the odor of human waste.

@AS-qg1xu

7 ай бұрын

Thank you for this info, I was wondering if it still smelled.

I think it’s funny that the French thought Marie Antoinette was “eccentric” because she liked to bathe a few times a week. People in Tudor England only washed their faces and hands every day. They also believed it was their clothes were the only things that got dirty. So they would only change their clothes. And barely ever washed their hair.

@_iyakin

2 жыл бұрын

god, that must've been part of why she had a hard time adjusting in the palace 🥴🥴 I feel soooo bad for her now 😭

@pattysouza2954

2 жыл бұрын

I snuck around the velvet ropes and wnet to see the bathtub she had installed. It was a tiny room with nothing but a huge tub and a book shelf that went to the ceiling. It has a window and ahe must have laid in the tub with a book.

@margritpiepes8242

2 жыл бұрын

I guess Marie Antoinette knew " German cleanliness" since she was German.

@lilacsunshine3044

2 жыл бұрын

This is so gross.No wonder the woman covered therehair.

@itswhatitis277

2 жыл бұрын

@@margritpiepes8242 she was Austrian, not German

It's almost hard to believe people were this disgusting!

@apocalypse487

3 жыл бұрын

People still like that even though they have working plumbing

@tiffanyspencer1082

3 жыл бұрын

Any public bathroom will make you rethink that statement

@j4genius961

3 жыл бұрын

People will think the same of us in 2-300 years

@HyperionaSilverleaf

3 жыл бұрын

@@j4genius961 we're gross now. I saw a woman rinse (not wash!) her hands and then use the hand dryer. It was a two stall restroom and I heard her crapping.

@gabrielfrost9134

3 жыл бұрын

@@HyperionaSilverleaf You were listening lmao! 🎧💨💩

That is disgusting 😭. Even the tudors in England, they called Catherine of Aragon “over privileged” for bathing with water and fragrant herbs everyday. The spanish brought that tradition here in the Philippines that's why we take a bath every single day even centuries ago.

Anyone who might find this interesting might also really dig the book 'Perfume - The Story of a Murder' by Patrick Süskind. It goes into dreadful detail about the various stenches that filled the streets of Paris in the mid-18th century, but it also goes into much 'prettier' fragrances that went into the art of perfuming.

oh my god i did NOT know it was this bad. The visual of Marie getting hit by literal flying shit is just immaculate, thank you!

@ArtHistorywithAlder

3 жыл бұрын

haha someone needs to create a painting of this

@florenmage

3 жыл бұрын

I'm just taking a stroll outside. Ahhh that good old fresh air. ... DID A TURD JUST HIT MY FACE WTF OMG AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!... D;

@maribelvega8008

3 жыл бұрын

No wonder their dresses were so big layers on layers trying to hide BO lol they'd even use their clothes to clean themselves.. all of them full of sh*t piss , lice and cat piss, no bathing, mercury Led makeup bald which wreaked havoc on the skin how could they stand it? filthy rich is true yuck

@lilacsunshine3044

2 жыл бұрын

@@maribelvega8008 Vomit time.

@lindasansone3345

2 жыл бұрын

🤣 I can't

The girls were hyping this place up back in the day like Versailles was that spot! Meanwhile it's smelling like hot ass on wheat bread ?!

@toniwilliams5330

3 жыл бұрын

🤣 im dead

@johnrankin4521

3 жыл бұрын

Eww i visualized this comment, hell no

@mimireuser5383

3 жыл бұрын

My damn air pod fell out laughing at this 🤣 hot ass on wheat bread

@GIBunz

3 жыл бұрын

No water source is a pretty big no-no

@iwillpunchyouruglyass

3 жыл бұрын

HOT ASS ON WHEAT BREAD

The combination of classic music in the background combined with a semi-serious sounding narrator talking about people pooping around the Versailles Palace has to be the most hilarious thing I ever experienced!

And they called us uncivilized *disgusted face*

This is why French Kissing was so impressive. Open mouth kissing anyone with tongue back then was really hard-core due to the body odor

@tennesseean7257

3 жыл бұрын

Imagine the diseases people contracted from the unsanitary conditions back then from open mouth kissing whoever was around at the time. They thought "hot water" invited illnesses and caused diseases🙄 them poor people died in droves believing what they knew to be right, but in the present day we know so much more about so many things and they didn't stand a chance.

@adamwilliams5492

3 жыл бұрын

Hell that could b where a lot of the studs came from. Or At least one of them

@DaveGSx7

3 жыл бұрын

Like kissing a corpse...

@Pumkin932

3 жыл бұрын

@@tennesseean7257 Makes you wonder just how dumb we're all gonna look in a couple decades, at least.

@joshuatraffanstedt2695

3 жыл бұрын

Right.. like eating booty today, which most of us do relentlessly.

I find these hygiene videos oddly intriguing and fascinating.

@seebunlim

3 жыл бұрын

Me too!! 🤣🤣🤣

@Libra8410

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@ilovemalechickens

3 жыл бұрын

Makes me feel better about missing a shower here and there

@Lionstar16

3 жыл бұрын

They make me eternally grateful that I live in a society that doesn't stink

@ilovemalechickens

3 жыл бұрын

@@Lionstar16 depends where you hang out. Try frequenting a rock pub and you'll soon change your tune

3:38 I'm so mad at myself for completely losing it at _"Sacre-poo!"_ 🤣No fair, Weird History, I wasn't ready!

Love this series btw. This is literally eye opening!

@simonebethune4848

2 жыл бұрын

Or eye closing!

His narrations NEVER disappoint me 😂

@coloneljackmustard

3 жыл бұрын

He no Rod Serling or Leonard Nimoy, but he's pretty good.

@widowrumstrypze9705

3 жыл бұрын

@@coloneljackmustard Not to mention, ALIVE!! Lol!

@youngsol309

3 жыл бұрын

@@coloneljackmustard Stephen colbert haha

@lilacsunshine3044

2 жыл бұрын

{erfect voice for such subjects.

@lilacsunshine3044

2 жыл бұрын

@@coloneljackmustard He has a voice that translates the humor of the said subject,Its is perfect.

I find it absolutely insane that in Versailles Royal Courts, the highest people of Nobility would piss anywhere and everywhere especially in the corners of the room. You’d think this type of conduct would be strictly forbidden among Noble society but it was common practice everywhere. Between all the urine, fecal matter, roaming animals and unbathed people, the whole place must’ve stunk to high holy hell especially in the hot summer months. Also, the narrator forgot to mention that Versailles had a lot of horses on the property. Horses shit everywhere they go so in addition to all the other fecal matter you also had huge piles of horse shit all over the place.

@toosiyabrandt8676

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Even in Post World War 2 in Berlin where I grew up, it was a cultural norm for men and little boys to pee on trees growing on the edge of footpaths in any suburban or city street in full sight of anyone walking past! And small girls were held over the gutter by their mothers.[ Never for doing poo though!] There must have been a lack of public toilets! [ Only adult women weren't allowed to relieve themselves this way! ] And France is still famous for it's barely discreet 'Pissoires' But to our shame they have exceeded all other cultures with their exemplary ' Bidet'. Shalom to us only in Christ Yeshua

@cristinadriviera8144

2 жыл бұрын

Arch Angel+ Long dresses trailing in dung...

@get2myhead

2 жыл бұрын

eww

@gabrielalvarado7849

2 жыл бұрын

there’s not much proof they were THIS bad. some stuff was invented by commoners after the french revolution as they wanted to give royalty a bad image

@henningandersen9027

2 жыл бұрын

This documentary would have been great if it weren't for the disturbing and thus nerving MUZAK during the talk.

I went to Château de Versailles - it was very impressive, but I did wonder where the restrooms were. Marie Antoinette’s room was massive with secret doors. Love the background music 🎶 Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Followed by other compositions. Loved seeing the famous Hall of Mirrors. The treaty of Versailles was signed there ending WWI.

I am so grateful for the life and hygiene that we now have.

*"What Hygiene Was Like at The Court of Versailles"* "...there was hygiene?"

@justsomerandomwatcher2226

2 жыл бұрын

Well yes but not really

@CCP-Lies

2 жыл бұрын

No it's doesn't exist

@shojinryori

2 жыл бұрын

More like “hygiene”…

It's amazing that anyone survived a horrid period of time like that.

@laurawilloughby4000

2 жыл бұрын

No one did.

@pelicant6497

2 жыл бұрын

Uncomfortable lumpy clothes, too many regulations and separations, and this. I cannot believe people think the world of the past was better than today's.

@davef.2811

2 жыл бұрын

@@pelicant6497 50 years past, yes. 500 years past, hell no.

@pelicant6497

2 жыл бұрын

@@davef.2811 In alot of ways yes. But in my region, we were still recovering from and fighting wars. Again, many values then are dismissed today, large part of the blame is on the internet I strongly believe.

@purpurina5663

Жыл бұрын

Amazing that women could birth live children. I don’t know if it extended to this period, but in Tudor England it was thought a pregnant woman needed to stay in dark close quarters during the puerperium

There was a tv series named Versailles... it was awesome and one of my favorites... definitely worth checking out.

Me and my sensitive nose could never. I don’t even like going into the bathroom after someone’s gone, I can’t imagine being surrounded by it.

So Roman's can build aquadeqas and piping for its citizens and public baths. But 1750s France can't do the same? Lol

@spaniardsrmoors6817

2 жыл бұрын

Watch the YT video of Monty Python's 'what have the Romans ever done for us' They civilized the Brits.

@ViolettaD1485

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, the middle ages might have been cleaner than the 17th century. There were public baths for those who didn't have their own, and many people used to go once a week to warm up in winter or cool off in summer. The authorities closed them because of plague and also because some people using them to hook-up, so later centuries stank more than the middle ages.

@bluesman1947

2 жыл бұрын

Things haven't changed much. The french still don't wash much.

@essaly7969

2 жыл бұрын

@@bluesman1947 False.

@cocobdijen2329

2 жыл бұрын

@@bluesman1947 😂 , get education...

And what made matters worse, everyone was drinking booze and eating raw organic foods so you know it was extra stinky and frequent.

@ghihbgyu

3 жыл бұрын

raw foods? I thought they ate a ton of bread and meat at that time?

@archangel5627

3 жыл бұрын

@@ghihbgyu They did drink a ton of booze and eat a lot of bread, meat, and cheese but they also ate a lot of fresh vegetables and fruits. Louis the 14th was obsessed with gardens. During his time Versailles was known for its epic gardens and green houses. They would grow all kinds of vegetables and fruits inside these green houses. They even grew some foreign fruits as well. So you can imagine how bad their shit smelled back then.

@archangel5627

3 жыл бұрын

@Gwyn and Gold You’re absolutely right. The narrator forgot to mention that in addition to all the cats, rodents, and pets, there were a ton of horses there as well. We all know horses shit wherever they are and horse shit is huge. So Versailles definitely smelled like a festering sewer.

@LadyCoyKoi

3 жыл бұрын

They ate extra oily, greasy foods, because vegetables were still viewed and considered as pig food and dangerous.It wasn't till Louis 16th that they consider potatoes and other veggies into their diets. Louis 14th was obese with gout and other complications due to too much carbs, meats and dairy foods, not from fruits and vegs. Vegs , again, was view as pig food and benefit the high class people. High class people ate processed sugar and breads were made from white flour, thus white bread was viewed as high class.

@OcarinaSapphr-

3 жыл бұрын

@@LadyCoyKoi There were **plenty** of period recipes that incorporated vegetables, & salads were considered high status dishes; even going back to the 16th c- to the time of Henry VIII of England, & Francis I of France- there was a ‘Royal’ or ‘King Sallet (Salad)’ dedicated to Henry, that had 100 ingredients- & olive oil used to be called sallet/ salad oil...

Great video!!

MY GOD! This is unbelievable (not only the french but saw some other Hygiene-related videos as well) how could they built these magnificent palaces and not think about how to get rid of waste? No one thought of at least not peeing and pooing in the corridors and stairways?? How could no one be in charge of disposing of dead animals? My GOD!!!

The irony of being such a "prim and proper" society with strict dress codes and etiquette being filled with people who smelled horrible and probably had rotting teeth.

Knowledge like this made me happy I'm not born in the past coz I absolutely cannot survive. Seeing romantization of royal and historical movie esp in 13-19 century setting and saw these documentations was mind blowing.

@mats7492

3 жыл бұрын

If you get born into this, you wouldn’t mind..

@lilacsunshine3044

2 жыл бұрын

I am blessed i was born in the 60s.

TRIGGER WARNING BEFORE! I once read an entire article about Louis XIV ' s "oral hygiene". After eating that big amounts of sugar and just pastries, he started suffering from cavities. His personal dentists had to extract his teeth, due to their condition. But they sometimes did it wrong, and because of that, his SKULL and GUM started to rot. They had to use hot steel utensils to get rid of that rotten part, but they failed, and made a big hole between his mouth and nose. Even after that, Louis still loved to eat. However, he couldn't eat hard things (he had lacking teeth), and thats why his personal cook created this meat pulp called pate. Because of that hole, it is said that while he was putting the pate into his mouth, there was always some coming out of his nose. It also smelled really bad when it got stuck inside, and he had some difficulty breathing. Pls tell me if there are many mistakes, and if you see any, tell me so I can correct myself.

Having been to Versailles, it is hard to believe that this type of thing went on there.

the average "old soul" person: "I was born in the wrong era, I wish I could live back then." the average 'warm water showers' enjoyer: "Nah, I'm good where I am."

the tradition is continued on city buses worldwide.

@awsomeboy360

3 жыл бұрын

@Smoke you Out cuh In NY? I live in NYC and this never happens, so get out of here. And the republican run cities aren't well off either, NY is doing quite well compared to all of them.

@brvndxxxn

3 жыл бұрын

@@awsomeboy360 thank you!!!! I also live in NYC, since Republicans want to rule the world they should do a better job at cleaning it too.

@Thalia_Rueli

3 жыл бұрын

you guys arguing ab politics when the topic is sanitation. we don’t need to rely on the government to keep shit clean, this is the people’s country and if you care then pick up after yourself it’s not that hard. dispose of waste more properly and talk to your representative if you have ideas to improve it. we have the power not the government

@awsomeboy360

3 жыл бұрын

@Smoke you Out cuh That doesn't mean people are literally shitting in the streets. NYC always had rats. And poverty has been in decline for a while now.

@yoeltogarmikael3278

3 жыл бұрын

Why are we getting political?w

Watching this the very moment I came back from visiting the palace of Versailles. Wear good shoes, a good winter jacket for the off season or a good raincoat. And marvel at how clean it is now! Worth it for all history buffs and art historians. Bisous from Paris!

Ugh. I hadn't imagined this element of living in a glittering palace at all! I wager I'd be just as happy a peasant then as now.

Can you imagine how physically uncomfortable people must have been? Any of those things he listed, would be on their own already unbearable! But all of them together? Pile on top of that how uncomfortable the clothes in themselves must have been, good lord!

@maxfernandes8559

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine being a French peasant pleasing with Louis XiV dropping turds in his Commode

@simonebethune4848

2 жыл бұрын

yet they bred and shagged a plenty, lol

@Dominik40301

Жыл бұрын

Also, since dental care was almost non existing, people lived most of their life in pain due to rotting teeth and couldnt eat food like meat or bread. King Luis not only had bad body odor he also had killer breath. Not to mention to live in place where you constantly smell poop and urine, we who live today have better life quality than King of France in 1600 and 1700s.

The Internet ruined my fantasies of going back in time. Maybe I would still go to see prehistoric humans with a helicopter but that's it.

@DammnDeejay

3 жыл бұрын

Nah, gimme a portal that I can look into with binoculars 👀 I’m good

@iamvinnyyes

3 жыл бұрын

Now you just accidentally changed the past by having ancient people worship helicopters

@tokyo_taxi7835

3 жыл бұрын

Pre-historic hunter gatherers would likely have been cleaner than the people at Versailles. Low population density, frequently moving, no rodents or pests to deal with. Maybe not to our level but definitely better than what would come later.

@RmnGnzlz

3 жыл бұрын

@@iamvinnyyes That's dope. All fear the Choppa God.

@martahajduk

3 жыл бұрын

I'm watching Outlander, Anne with an A and others. Quite enough. I need my flush and toothbrush so I'd rather imagine living in different times than really do so

I'd never be able to go see Versailles as elegant from now on

Interesting stuff my grandmother traced our family line back to king Louie. I’d love to visit Versailles some day!

I'd like to know the origins of why bad smells are usually illustrated as a green gas... LMAO.

@seanv42

3 жыл бұрын

Miasma theory. People believed that bad swamp gasses caused diseases. Swamp gas is associated with green, as green is the color of sickness and decay

@archangel5627

3 жыл бұрын

If you freeze methane gas, it actually has a greenish hue to it and methane doesn’t smell good.

@maddog8621

3 жыл бұрын

My farts actually do emerge as a visible green gas

@bonniewilkie1317

3 жыл бұрын

@@maddog8621 Bwahahaha👍

@maddog8621

3 жыл бұрын

@@bonniewilkie1317 IyamwhaddIyam!

It seems like most modern alleyways are a modern, small piece of Versailles.

@saintvenus7185

3 жыл бұрын

omg splatoon fan!

@threefreaksonaleash6619

2 жыл бұрын

😹😹😹😹🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️👏🏻

@TOBYH

2 жыл бұрын

ESPECIALLY IN S.F AND L.A

There's an adage in the Early Music Community, "we can love Baroque Music because we can't smell it".

not everything in this video is completely accurate. people did bathe themselves, just not as we do nowadays. before saying people in the past were nasty, just think that they simply didn’t have running water in their houses so having a bath was a luxury. they cleaned themselves every morning with a wet cloth and they had dental hygiene, obviously not as perfected as ours. cavities and stinky breath was really a problem with the nobles rather than everyone, because only if you were rich you could afford sugary foods. they also cleaned their hair, just not with shampoo and conditioner. people just want to feel superior to their predecessors, so in the victorian era every kind of rumor started spreading, especially about the middle ages. Versailles was certainly a very stinky place, but it was really about the hundred of horses nearby and dogs pooping everywhere. also, they definitely did not relieved themselves in every corner of the palace, they had a pot specifically for this, called chamber pot. I’m sure your grandma has something like that in their home. I know these rumours are very funny and quirky but they’re in fact false. people in the past were just like us. they didn’t like to feel greasy or nasty, so they cleaned themselves. they were not stinky-poopy aliens 🫣

Every time I watch a show or movie set in the past, I can't help but simply imagine how awful everyone smelled

@valeriehartman3705

Жыл бұрын

That's what American movies seem to forget. Hollywood actors have super white teeth playing historical figures who had none.

@nikemaraje5

Жыл бұрын

@@valeriehartman3705 byeeeee

@valeriehartman3705

Жыл бұрын

@@nikemaraje5 WTF is wrong with you? Got a problem?

@afiaowusuaa6890

Жыл бұрын

Same!!!

@raykyogrou0358

11 ай бұрын

Thank god they haven't invented movies with smell yet

this is so cool Weird History! You should do a series on bath culture in Asia as a compliment to this someday. I know people in the Middle East and Japan loved baths, today both Korean and modern Japanese people are very conscious about hygiene and cleanliness.

@patriciaecampbell372

2 жыл бұрын

Ever been to the public toilets in China? 😱🤮

@andrearandall7540

2 жыл бұрын

Was just thinking that yay Asians :)

@kuroyuri04

2 жыл бұрын

In South East Asian, almost of its citizens always take a bath at least twice a day, depends on the circumstances. But for peoples who dislike to be sweaty, sometimes they can take a bath fourth a day. . . . Funnily, when a tourist from certain part of Europe came, they always said 'people of South East Asia is like a fish because they like to take a bath, using too much soap and shampoo. A fishes that like to destroy their environment because using too much detergent (inside the soap)'. How ironic~ 🙃🙃🙃

@marwaqoura7804

2 жыл бұрын

As a Middle Eastern ,people in Europe &America still find it very weird that we use water instead of toilet papers !! ..

@marwaqoura7804

2 жыл бұрын

@Slavic Melodies Eastern Europeans are very close to Middle Eastern culture and their "hygienic "ways till today

It blows my mind that they were able to build massively impressive palaces and cities, but couldn’t figure out the toilet, bathing, or basic hygeine. Wtf

Interesting side note: I noticed when visiting the Louvre bathrooms were few and far between (and the Louvre is massive and always crowded), I wonder if this was because it was built during a time in French history when bathroom hygiene wasn’t seen as particularly important

There was also the vermin situation. Bugs got in all the time, especially when the windows were open or even lacking glass. There’s one schadenfreude story about a noblewoman who had the severe misfortune of having a wasp fly in from an open window and up her skirt, resulting in it repeatedly stinging her on the thigh while she ran around screaming and begging for somebody to get it out of there.

I studied french costume history in the university, and can confirm, everything in this video is true. I can add, French were wearing silk undergarments, because, apparently, silk is the only one fabric where lice don't breed. Also, reach people, never washed there clothes. They wore it for a while and just pass it on to their helpers to wear after them.

@Aristocratic13

2 жыл бұрын

So they really just shit everywhere?

@Patrick3183

Жыл бұрын

They didn’t wash their clothes because they wore lots of undergarments. Their bodies never touched their outer clothes.

Yeah, this is the side of Versailles that has never made sense to me. An incredible palace, gorgeous wardrobes, ridiculously intricate court rules, but hey just do your business wherever and if you bathe then that's your cause of death.

I'm so glad I'm alive during a time of A/C and indoor plumbing

Imagine being intimate with these people. Oh god. I feel terrible for our ancestors. Like us women and our cycles....how was that even enjoyable if they didn’t shower or bathe?!! Nope. No A/C or hygienic grooming...no brazilian waxing?! Fleas and lice everywhere.....nope. NOPE. I would have stayed celibate my entire life. My mouth is not going anywhere near that accumulated parasitic gunk. Nor are my equally gross neather parts.

@tavarshia3122

3 жыл бұрын

Pink eye must've been rampant.

@ryanholcomb8001

3 жыл бұрын

That’s probably why being a nun or monk was more popular back then

@marquisdelafayette1929

3 жыл бұрын

@@ryanholcomb8001 was just about to say that lol

@nakedzebra67

3 жыл бұрын

Enjoyable? Is that a pleasant thing today?

@lalachenault8523

3 жыл бұрын

"Nor are my equally gross nether parts"🤣🤣🤣🤣 Lol! Completely agree!

Timeline 2184: "Let's go back to the hygienically disturbing times of the year 2020'-21."

@tylarsyddall286

3 жыл бұрын

@@a_m5115 history doesn't generally look back on those who bow to authority and dispense with individual freedom to gain perceived safety very fondly.

@tiffprendergast

3 жыл бұрын

@@a_m5115 yup

@mats7492

3 жыл бұрын

@@a_m5115 nope.. They will laugh at us for acting like frightened chicken because of a disease with a 99.97% survival rate!

@justsomerandomwatcher2226

2 жыл бұрын

Hahahahahaha

My pleasure in seeing Versailles recently has been dealt a blow by this expose of the life of the past.

Went to Versailles during the 90's. There were no dead cats there anymore and shit laying on the floor. Syphilis isn't present within the people living close to the palace and proud to say it's odorless now :)

If ever any rich lady brags about their huge mansion like its almost the same as the palace of Versailles. Remind them to watch this video 😂

@ArtHistorywithAlder

3 жыл бұрын

😂

@kuroyuri04

2 жыл бұрын

I bet, after that the rich lady would build-up at least a dozen hidden toilets inside her mansion. 😂😂🙃

I went to Versailles in the fall of 2019. Everything was so grand and opulent. It’s hard to imagine people just shitting and pissing everywhere 😆💩

@divinecommerce3912

2 жыл бұрын

That explains government for ya- looks pretty but they're all full of sh--

@bluegenes2273

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair, i'm sure they were grand and opulent shits.

@angelasahin5420

2 жыл бұрын

Agree I went in 2000 and it was beautiful. Now I can't imagine shit stained gold everywhere.

@margaretdasilva5493

2 жыл бұрын

I was there many years ago and it's VERY hard to imagine such a state of affairs.

@tessafields6299

2 жыл бұрын

Lmfao😂

its a surprise for so many of us from Asia, where science is common sense, we just are amazed by our ancestors, how intelligent and advanced they were, wish you ppl learn more about ,how most (well all 90%) of the science,maths , astrology , yoga , and all the knowledge has its origin in India , its is amazing to learn

This is spine-chillingly scary and awful. Here in South Asia skipping a day’s shower makes me dizzy. I wonder how Versailles and it’s opulence ‘survived’ with that sorta filthiness around.

The building seems so beautiful, the way people dressed was lovely. Yet behind all this it was smelly and unhygienic. The lack of toilets must have been terrible.

Interestingly, this seems like something that was almost specific to Louis XIV. Even when you read about other palaces in the same time period, they're not *that* bad. And it sounds like by the time Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette came around, things had started to improve. I wonder if the Sun King had some kind of mental illness that contributed to the entire palace turning into a cesspit?

@helene4397

3 жыл бұрын

He thought like many of his era, that washing up with water was dangerous. Somewhat true since unclean water can give nasty diseases. But if he'd be able to see how we take care of our hygiene and grooming, he might think us as insane because we willingly wash ourselfs with water.

@mariashaki89

2 жыл бұрын

I believe it had to do with turning a hunting lodge into a palace for 3000 people and the poor planning that came with it. The successors recognized the issues and probably made some changes.

@moonlights9146

Жыл бұрын

It’s really fascinating, in other parts of the world like Japan or China or Turkey, most of the Arab world bathing was a must, and still is. Romans had public baths everywhere too, it’s crazy how that even the king didn’t really wash himself …

Perfume:Story of a Murderer covers a bit of Paris army this time. The stench snd parfumeries. It’s an excellent film dedicated to smell.

Love the graphics! Lol!

Versailles smell was basically when you spray fabreeze after you poop

@mud6866

3 жыл бұрын

That is a fresh breeze compaired to V

@stillsaltydeadguylul7318

2 жыл бұрын

We call it shitris

@dianachin4849

2 жыл бұрын

Some people light incense in their bathroom after blowing it up 😆

@matchit100

2 жыл бұрын

Smell like a kipper nailed to the bathroom floor.

@ultron374

Жыл бұрын

Great comment. I was laughing hard!!!!

Visited this amazing place in 2002 and will never forget it's musty, powdery smell..

@mud6866

3 жыл бұрын

The stench will only disappear with the buildings themselves.

@justinebourke2811

3 жыл бұрын

@@mud6866 😅 well as much as I'd like to time-travel and experience the palace in it's heyday, I'd not want a nostrilfull of that- no way...the dirty b*st*rds! 😅😂 I can't believe they were crapping and pissing like that everywhere indoors..if I caught someone at that in my house I'd whip them ( after rubbing their noses in it)

@mud6866

3 жыл бұрын

@@justinebourke2811 hahah for real though! I might just take out my big leather belt for that!!

@justinebourke2811

3 жыл бұрын

@@mud6866 😂😂

@07laines07

2 жыл бұрын

Mildew from all of urine soaked walls…

Got a good laugh there 0:42 😂 “tray tray mall” 😭

Omg watching those perfect movies ive always wished to live back in time but now that i see this we are really lucky to be living in this modern era

Wow, even Ancient Greece had a sewer system and one can find the first “flushing toilet” in the Knossos palace in Crete. Then there is also the famous sewer system of the Byzantine empire. All these hundreds and thousand years before Versailles. I don’t want to time travel anymore

@latsnojokelee6434

2 жыл бұрын

That was one of the benefits of bring a Roman or Greek - Most inventions come from others peoples inventions, so people from that part of the world were more technologically advanced than people in the Northern European countries. And you would’ve thought that the Europeans would’ve learned a lot when the Romans invaded and built aqueducts and toilets and baths, but when Rome fell, that ended the technically smarter people and Europe just regressed.

@Bluey306

2 жыл бұрын

i may want to time travel just so i can experience the earth's climate pre-industrialization and pre-climate change. just to see what it's all about and how people were able to wear the layers that they did back then.

Well, I made a terrible decision of watching this video while eating breakfast. 🤢🤣

@PunkyPink85

3 жыл бұрын

Same here 😭 Why did we decide to hurt ourselves?

@depresso7414

3 жыл бұрын

I am having dinner lol.

@restock_1731

3 жыл бұрын

Good thing I wasn't eating oatmeal. 🤣🤣

@kat35lulu88

2 жыл бұрын

I may skip dinner.

@theravyshow2570

2 жыл бұрын

put me off chocolate chips!

I worked for TSA for 16 years and I can tell you firsthand body Odor and perfume do not mix

A biographer of Mme. Tussaud (who claimed to have lived at Versailles as part of Mme. Elizabeth's household) mentions how foreign visitors were disgusted at the sheer amount of human excrement. An aristocrat remarked that the palace accommodated from 14,000 to 20,000 people; it can't be kept immaculate like a princesses' bedroom! If you were brave enough to walk outdoors near the windows, you held a big leather umbrella over you - servants would toss chamber-pot "waste" out the windows onto the ground below.

Also, I have to wonder, how the hell did cats survive these horrid times too. I’m sure they were dying by the thousands too 🤔

@lucy9698

3 жыл бұрын

Cats were doing just fine because, as was said, human mess attracted rodents which provided plenty of food. Of course, disease strikes all creatures equally but if you really think about it cats were waaay more hygienic than humans since they're very clean creatures. Cats also controlled disease spread by exterminating rodents. In fact, the Black Plague was spread in the first place because many cats died at that time. Except, they didn't die to the disease... they died to humans who believed them to be associated with witchcraft.

@KajaKamisama

3 жыл бұрын

Cats can survive a lot but you're right, just like today's stray cats, there were many born and many killed...

@DammnDeejay

3 жыл бұрын

@@lucy9698 damn! So the plague probably would’ve never Happened if they didn’t kill majority of cats?? Wow! Reminds me of the guy that exterminated all the sparrows and accidentally made people starve to death because of it

@lucy9698

3 жыл бұрын

@@DammnDeejay It probably wouldn't have been as bad, yea. Human stupidity greatly contributed to that pandemic though.

@DammnDeejay

3 жыл бұрын

@@lucy9698 what a huge facepalm! I can’t help but cringe at the errors of their ways!

I LOVE THESE VIDEOS. Especially British and French History.

@Raynneboe

3 жыл бұрын

Same!

@deliveryboy

3 жыл бұрын

Right up until they throw the saddest videos you’ve ever watched in your face 😭 But I still love them ♥️

@miraalbertson

2 жыл бұрын

Why? Their history is full of atrocities against mankind

@livingbauer315

2 жыл бұрын

@@miraalbertson It’s still history; people’s lives and beliefs. Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

@livingbauer315

2 жыл бұрын

@@miraalbertson besides, I could say the same thing about today’s day and age. It just depends on what you believe in.

The nice part about this information, it really makes you appreciate how things are, at least hygenically, today

@peepeepoopoo8692

2 жыл бұрын

The nice part is actually it being mostly false

This where the term “filthy rich” came from?

I love this program. Not only do I learn things but I’m also entertained. Thank you.

I take back everything I said about living in this era 🤢

@CCP-Lies

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@nikemaraje5

Жыл бұрын

Lol

If you go to Europe and tour the art galleries, check the paintings from the middle ages. The fingers of the kings and queens are filthy. They thought nothing of it. They don't smile because their teeth have rotted out, hence the corners of their mouths are pursed. Makes you wonder how they survived. Reflected in the short life span.

Some one in the comments said they should make a movie visualizing the idea of actual life then. I think the movie Parfum with Dustin Hoffman really brought this home. I have visited Paris and cannot begin to relate to this type of life. Imagine just walking down an Avenue and some one throwing waste out the door and it hitting you. Thank goodness mankind has improved in their hygiene habits.