Every leader of France, EVER 

Some French king: *screws France up* French people: *Revolution time.*

*Napoleon (The 3rd) becomes the first president of France, who then proceeds to make himself emperor and start a war* French people: Ah shit, here we go again

"As a result, for the next seven decades France had a different Prime Minister almost every single year. This is considered one of the most stable periods of French Government." - France in a nutshell

The weird thing about the President of France is that they are actually elected royalty, just not for France. The President of France and The Spanish Bishop of Urgell are co-princes of Andorra, a small country between France and Spain. So Emmanuel Macron is a Prince! At least until he is elected out or resigns as President of France. Micro-states are so fascinating!

King: *sees guillotine* "Is this some kind of a peasant joke that I am too rich to understand?"

You know, the Franks parted into West Francia, which largely became France, and East Francia, which largely became Germany. So us Germans also claim Charlemagne as our King, which makes it weird to always see him framed as a Frenchman internationally... but we call him Karl, since his name in Latin was Carolus. 😂

You should've mentioned that time de Gaulle said "Vive le Québec libre!" in Montréal.

Oh my God this is a really educational video. I loved it

As a French person, I must say good job! This is no easy topic and you managed to make it fun to watch 🇫🇷👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Video about every leader of Russia would be great!

Meanwhile, in Singapore: Literally 3 people

Correction: Invasion of Russia happened in 1812 not in 1814.

Well, this is gonna get Quebec talking.

>Mfw I realize CGP Grey's video on the English royal family/history counts as Regnal Chronology video.

I was very confused about the Capet part until I remembered that the Valois and Bourbons were technically branches of the Capet family, and that's really where their legitimacy came from.

It's worth noting that the Merovingian Kings never had much power to begin with. The real power was with the Mayor of the Palace (Majordomo), which is what the Carolingians began as.

I spotted a Breton flag in the background :D That's awsome

not giving Louis XIV a shout out is tragic imo, so much impact even until today

I've been wanting to read about French history and it's leaders but never got around to it so I'm happy you made this video to give me a jump start. I had no idea how unstable France was for pretty much it entire history Oh and Russia has a pretty complicated history I would love for you to cover

I almost revolted last weekend when I went to the beach and realized I wouldn't be able to watch last week's video upon its release. But I'm glad I didn't go this weekend and "miss" this video: never knew how crazy French politics actually was before now.

real fans know this vid was originally called “french rulers”

First , oversimplified then the infografhics show and now you . The French Revolution spirit is now in everyone

I can't complain that you not finishing your leader of every country in the world series when all the videos you make are this good anyway! (that's how I'm sneaking my complaint into this compliment)

J.J, please continue with the leaders of the world in alphabetical order, they were really good episodes

Thanks for your work...this is quite a complex subject...your format and explanation gives it a good amount of clarity.

Who knows Robespierre from Oversimplified? 🇫🇷

Great video! Awesome detail on post revolution France. I would definitely be interested in something with a focus on Capet dynasty and their cadet branches Valois, and Bourbon. Thanks!

When I hear Charles de Gaulle, I think the airport LOL

Great breakdown! I never could get my head around the French Revolution and all the republics. Thank you for this, I'm sure it must have taken a lot of research.

I'd really like to see you make a video like this on the various monarchs and prime ministers of the UK.

You simplify the vast and chaotic history of France so well! I always love your historical videos

It would be really awesome if you make a series on this topic with other countries too! Loved it

Marie Antoinette: let them eat cake The French people: I’m about to end this whole woman’s career

I’d love to see a video about Russia! I think that you can discuss how the authoritarian mindset is being created by analyzing our history. Btw, this one was very educational! I finally understood the whole picture of the french history! Thank you

This was a famtastic video JJ. You should feel proud of yourself. I would love to see this for other countries.

J.J. your videos are always incredibly informative. Whenever your videos appear in my subscriptions I become ecstatic. Thank you for doing what you do and creating these fun, educational videos for us to learn and become just a little bit more informed.

Amazing!! Congratulations, you should do videos like this with other countries!!

Thanks JJ almost went outside but then I got your notification Life saver!

This is my favorite video of yours. That’s really saying something because I loved the Philippines history vid, and the speeches video

Oh my goodness this was awesome! Please make one of these like ...every 2 or 3 months please.

This was fantastic. I really appreciate the work you put into this. Would love to see another regnal chronology of another European country... Sweden? Italy? Belgium? Any would be good!

Ok, so in my notifications, this video was titled, "French Rulers", And I actually thought he had made a video on French measuring sticks.

I really admire the amount of effort you put into the research here!

greece is a great country for such a video because it as well has gone through a complicated past (i would suggest starting from byzantium rather than the modern state of greece as it's very young in the context of states such as england, france and spain, also it would make the video longer and more interesting)

Hey JJ. Love your videos (and especially the SMW sound bytes). Miss your mustache lol

I love this video! Post Reign of Terror and pre-WWII France was a real blind spot for me. I would love to learn more about other important blind spots like this! I wonder who led the United States during the Articles of Confederation days?

You should do more art videos of you drawing famous people or leaders. They’re some of my favorite videos.

Finally! Really great video, I felt like your recent videos have been less interesting than in the past but this video is really good

_"after the fall of the Roman Empire, the Franks organised themselves" ..._ O U C H Don't do this to me! I am sensitive about history! I hate thunder blunders about as much as scratching a blackboard with something sharper than chalk! 1) The Roman Empire did not fall over night. Nor even over just a few years. One can argue it took from AD 410 when Roman Legions left England to 1918 in the aftermath of the First World War matching a Western Emperor Francis Joseph and his successor Karl against an Eastern Emperor Nicolas II. 2) Roman power deteriorated over Gaul before the Franks arrived. Visigoths, Burgundians, Bretons coming from Cornwall to Brittany all took chunks and had more or less easy or uneasy relations with an actual Roman official, Syagrius, based around Central France. Together they fought off Attila. The Franks came as conquerors, and had established themselves outside the limes, North and North-East of Gaul and of the province Germania. They took the chunk of Syagrius after 20 years protracted battle. 3) Once they were in power, which cost Clovis I a Catholic baptism and involved him conquering Burgundian and Visigothic entities North of Pyrenees as new protector of Romans, they extended both in and outside modern France, notably in most if not all of Belgium, Luxemburg and Netherlands, as well as Western parts of Germany, where they were expanding East. 4) After Clovis, the division in Neustria, Austrasia and other entities was not an organisation but a disorganisation, treating royal power as a personal property and therefore as a heirloom to be potentially divided among heirs. 5) Francia was not Neustria, but all of the kingdom or budding Empire (heir of West Rome in 800 AD). Francia was all of it, including whatever of Germany was involved up to Charlemagne, that including Bavarian Duchy from which he separated an Ostmark now known as Austria. Yes, I think that basically sums up the faults in that comment as well as in the map.

Great vid can you do ways to get into canada from borders next?

@7:50 omg.. I needed that laugh today. Of course he did! It wasn’t just a chuckle - my neighbor had to text me to ask if I was okay.

Incredibly accurate and concise summary! Agree the chaotic many changes of government in France tells a lot about our country... I remember learning about these rulers at school, but forgot much of the details since. This is one of the most helpful and dynamic educational videos about France! Great job JJ, (almost) making it up for our differences over Quebec 😅😍 A French subscriber from Paris!

12:43 "and of course today, Emmanuel Macron" *French People grab yellow vests* "Wouldn't be France without a sprinkle of insurrection"🤣

Regnal chronology is a serious illness and I don't appreciate you taking it lightly

This is a lots of work. You deserve a thumbs up for sure.

Please do more of this!

Great video ( I just found one mistake: Valéry is first name, not giscard. So his full name is Valéry Giscard D’Estaing )

JJ.MC CULLOUGH ENGLAND is the most beautiful success of French colonization. William the Conqueror in 1066 😁😁😁 * * *

Learned about you from ADV China, and really glad I did! Was pleasantly surprised by how quality your content is, and now a glad subscriber!

You are not alone!!!!

I'm going to France in August with my family

Can you do a Video about Germany?

Excellent ... informative ... great simplification of a difficult topic and a pleasure to watch. Love to see a history of Newfoundland & Labrador and why joined Canada in 1947 and Labrador border skirmish with Québec for an interested Fr Aussie. Thx !!!

one correction, it was after Napoleon lost at the Battle of Leipzig was when he was asked to step down and then sent to Elba then he came back and France had the 100 days, he lost waterloo and then was exiled to Helena

This might be long but what about doing Greece?

Oooo! Yeah you should do Russia!

Do every leader Australia has ever had.

Okay I love this guy ❤ like everything abouut this guy, the way he talks, his voice and his nose as well 😍😍😍

what bout the bourbon and valois families?

8:11 _"after leading France into a disastrous war with neighbouring Prussia"_ Who led two nations into that war is disputed. Some would say that Bismarck truncating the Ems telegram was responsible for the Franco-Prussian war. Anyway, Napoleon III lost it.

This brought back a lot of bad memories from my Western Civ class in college. Thanks a lot. I watched the whole thing anyway.

You did one like this for Canada, but now you should go through every president of America.

Interesting. The current French presidency is often called a "elected monarch."

JJ video pops up, Instant click

I am such a history nerd that this subject actually crossed my mind a short while ago because it use to be on the History channel a lot as a kid.

JJ, you literally just summarized all I knew from a whole ass year of French history

*hopes JJ will be sponsored by VANS*

holy shit watched the video 2 minutes after it released

JJ do another regnal chronology video on either the US or Japan

Hahaha J.J. laughing when he mentions the chaos of the Third Republic

being a french student and a francophile I cringe every time you anglicize their word pronunciation but it’s OKAY it’s fine i’m fine everything is fine

French monarchy: *exists* Some choppy boi: *I'm about to end this man's career*

I am such a fan of your French prononciation XD Pompidou and Giscarg d'Estaing were the one to kill me

When you study closely, history is basically a giant ripple effect. Major events building off of other events.

Next up, can you do every President of Ireland and every Taoiseach (Irish PM)?

RUSSIA! Though I'd like to see you take a crack at some of the more unusual history of governments, like Switzerland or Austria-Hungary.

Since you have done it with France, I would like to see one about Québec's leaders.

Have you considered doing a video on Thailand’s rulers? A chronology of their. Ruling dynasties and such.

WRONG EMPEROR NAPOLEON, WAS EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH (PEOPLE) HE WAS NEVER EMPEROR OF FRANCE THIS IS SO WRONG. HOW DARE YOU!!!

russian empire india!!!! (rlly good) china british empire italy japan

Thank you. Love you history king

Wow, really good work overall, even more impressive as it is only 15 minutes long. As a Frenchman, I can only say félicitations, et merci.

United Kingdom. Or China.

you should definitely do south korea. it is much more interesting than the north because it has more than 3 people to talk about.

I love JJ

Thank you so much for still using AD

oh my goodness, there's so much that is just wrong about this video and the first of it is the concept regnal chronology BS. Presenting it this way seems to say no king had any constraints. NO social, economical, religious, political concern come from the population the origin of it all comes from the king. Obviously that is just stupid. Then we move on to the inexactitude of the information presented. 1:17 The Merovingian Dynasty officially starts with Merovee not Claudion who's likely to be more legendary than anything else. But regardless Clovis was the first king so you should start with him if you want to talk about regnal Sh*t, regnal meaning kingly. That might seems petty but it shows how little work has been made to do this video. 1:05 you change Neustria name to Francia wink wink that is France. Well no it isn't, not even close. Clovis was king alright but king of the Franks, the Franks being the warrior/ ruling class. Heck, the concept of country or nation didn't exist at the time. Land was seen the way we see money on a bank account today. It was divided between the heirs, it was simply a propriety. the concept of France/ Francia came in the XIII century 700 years after Clovis. 1:39 the Carolingian where mayors of the palace a position so important that they were de facto king of the franks for several generations, the pope intervention came after the fact to legitimate the action not enact it. well I am two minutes in and no one is going to bother reading it so I'll stop with all the oversimplification borderline falsehood of the video. However just in case someone bother I'll have to mention the worst part of the video 3:08 until 3:17 he describe the first republic accurately with a sarcastic tone. Consensus based decision isn't it democracy? The first republic was the first effective western democracy nothing to be sarcastic about. Now let's talk about the reign of terror failing to mention that France is on the brink to civil war while being invaded by a coalition of the rest of Europe. 17 000 people have been guillotine but all of them had a trial, notice I didn't say fair, nevertheless the rule of law was applied and it wasn't totally arbitrary. To quote Robespierre himself "The government in a revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny."

Great job... but you literally reviewed 1000 years of French history in about 10 seconds - The capetians dynasty provided with some of the greatests leader & gave birth to the houses of Valois, the Orleans, the Bourbons etc. each one with very differents reigning systems and political regimes, from feodal, to modern monarchy and to absolutism.

Very nice and informative video! Can you do this with the Spanish kings? Would be also interesting..XD

Nice job with the vid jj.