Facts You Didn't Know About King Louis XIV of France 

The fact that he legitimized his other kids, took good care of of them AND made sure they were educated back then was almost unheard of

Who come here from Versailles TV series?

Would love to see you do Philippe the brother of King Louis XIV

I’m not a monarchists, but if we ever get our monarchy back, we need someone like this.

It's been mentioned already, but I would like to repeat that the Duc Philippe, his brother, should have been acknowledged.

Mme de Maintenon is missing from your summary....rather important too, as Louis XIV married her after Queen Marie-Thérèse passed away.

He's probably the greatest french king. But he is also the one who sowed the seed of the French revolution.

i learned this in school but since my teacher sucks at explaining things, i always come to the internet

Louis xv was Louis xiv's GREAT Grandson, not his Grandson.

Very interesting video. Never to late to learn about history. 👍☝👍

True facts about Louis XIV. Louis had a prisoner with an iron mask. That's pretty metal. That how Louis do.

The territory of Louisiana became far more than just the state of Louisiana, it also became many other states as well.

Dear narrator: The ‘s’ in Louis is silent.

i have to make a presentation on him. and i had no idea who he was before, so now i'm here.

How come no one speaks of the obscene amount of money he spent on Versailles? Only women are attacked/decapitated for this crime.

I'm here because DNA told me I'm related to him 🤣🤣

How did Kings derive their power from God if God bestowed his spirit equally among every single one of us during the Pentecost?

The Iron mask was not exactly Iron it was made of black velvet

Thanks, enjoyed this so much! Well put together, Interesting. Good music.

Thank you for making facts about my son :)

I'm only here because I have to watch this and like 5 other videos for my homework

The Bourbons also reigned in the 18th and 19th century ;) The last true Bourbon king was Charles X. He was succeeded after his forced abdication by Louis of Bourbon-Orleans. Also Louis XV was his grand grandson ;)

You did mot even mention his Brother which he had a close relationship with.

Excellent video..... Louis XV was great-grandson of Louis XIV.... 👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️

What was the fact we were not supposed to know?

His mother was Austria in Dynasty, however she was Spanish in culture, language and origin. The French historian Ernest Lavisse said about Lois XIV «C’est d’Espagne-Autriche, semble-t-il, plus encore que de France, que Louis XIV a reçu son orgueil énorme, invraisemblable, pharaonique.» nd «Il était de France, mais d'Espagne tout autant et même davantage» The translation is «It is from Spain-Austria, it seems, even more than from France, that Louis XIV received his enormous, improbable, Pharaonic pride» and «He was from France, but from Spain just as much and even more»

The territory of Louisiana didn't become the state of Louisiana... only a tiny portion of it became Louisiana. The territory of Louisiana was so large that it included that 15 states contain land from the Louisiana Purchase... and 2 provinces in Canada. It's approximately 1/3 of the current continental USA. If you really want a lesser known fact, James Madison (future 5th U.S. President) negotiated the purchase at 2 cents an acre.

I already knew all of this! Lol! Louis XIV is my favourite French monarch

The Louisiana purchase included more than 10 states and over 800,000 sq miles, not just that red little area shown in the video.

It's great to have you back! I love all your vids, keep up the great work man!

Interesting, certainly, but most people know all this already but thank you for refreshing our mind. I think it would have been interesting to talk about his lesser known health problems, court etiquette or the technical advances he fostered while having his chateau de Versailles built or even about his diplomatic relations with other ruling monarchs of his time. That's a lot of information, perhaps they could be the subjects of future offerings.

I love this history channel...please keep them coming.

Pretty accurate but Louis was succeeded by his GREAT grandson. There are many more interesting things about Louis XIV and his reign than the those you mentioned.

I want to know more about the coming great French Monarch that is prophesied so much.

This was awesome.

The man in the iron mask story is VERY debatible and most likely, highly untrue because of very little reliable documentation and contradictory facts. Also, Louis XIV legitimized all his children from all his mistresses except for a rumored black child (named Louise) he had with a black girl, but he did financial take care of her as she was raised by nuns and became one herself. Another correction is that Madame de Montespan was not taking a shower, but a bath while spied on by the peeping-tom King (Louis XIV was known to play tricks on her and dress up as a guard and surprise her as well). Showers were not conceived at that point in time. Matter of fact, the King built for her a one of a kind, gorgeous 1 piece reddish tone marble tub that is still within the Orangerie at Versailles. It's utterly gorgeous. You could of mentioned more facts (instead of potential false ones like the iron mask) like for example; "l'affaire du poison" that did in fact occur and how it affected the King and the whole court at Versailles. Or what was the King's goal of building such a huge palace in Versailles of all places and the reason to have all the nobles there. Or perhaps why he wishes to have a book of 'étiquette' drawn up and followed by every member of the court and what was his purpose in doing so. It should be mentioned that King Louis XIV outlived all his children (and brother, who btw he was very close to despite some sibling rivalry) and remarried (secrectly) to Madame de Maintenon (his children's nanny). Overall a good video, but please elaborate and stick to real facts.

Under Louis XIV the revolution would *NOT* have happened

Interesting video. The greatest of all French kings was actually half Spanish as his mother was the Spanish princess. Anne of Austria is just a title. Very little information is available, though, as to weather the king spoke Spanish at all.

Great video, thanks! Didn't he invent the ballet?

hi , good video , but the parcel of land contained in the Louisiana Purchase eventually became the many states which make up the entire center of the United States mainland , of which only the southern tip is the state of Louisiana .

Louis XIV. liked to imagine himself with Alexander the Great!😲 He was one of the greatest admirers of Alexander the Great! He says for himself that is The Second Alexander the Great! 🌹

Came into this thinking “haha I’ll probably already know all of this. It’s funny when people say definitively that I won’t know this”... I knew like 3 facts

You made one little mistake: the Louisiana Purchase did not become the State of Louisiana. The Louisiana Purchase consisted of basically all mid western states, hence the many French names throughout the region. The State of Louisiana is only a fraction of the entire Louisiana Purchase territory.

I didn't know he had the Hope diamond..

He was not called Apollo because of his parents. There is a Occult theme in France that connects it to ancient Greece. Other people were called after Greek Gods like Diana of Poitiers and Henri IV being called the Gallic Hercules. There is also a theme of the sea with France like Isle De France is Paris, the crowned prince is called the Dolphin, the color blue is often used. I think because it connects to the coastlands Greece or the Salic (I forget how to spell it) Franks were by the sea and Mervochs mother was raped by a sea bull.

He had one of the only 2 bathrooms, thousands of people and the Versailles stench could be smelled for miles. Courtiers peed on walls, went in corners, under stairs, in hallways, all over the palace. I was doing a paper on something else entirely in the same period and stumbled on the letter of a merchant traveling miles from there, commenting on the awful smell of feces wafting in the breezes.

I love searching library section for these stories. The feel, the smell, the nostalgia.

Great content!Perfect narration.Subscribed!

Fyi, Louis' wife Maria Theresa of Austria was his first cousin and was Maria Theresa of Austria, not of Spain #DontCopyWikipedia.

The middle name of Louis XIV should be extravagance.

Dude, this is so perfect, relaxing and entertaining. Keep going! I just activated the bell to watch all your new videos

Interesting video. You have a nice voice.

Here is an interesting fact: Louis 14 was king when Jacque Cartier and later Samuel de Champlain founded New France (la Nouvelle-France). So he was the king who started the French colonies in the Americas.

Bird tribe basically are the korean. Louis's sound similiar with Ryu-sh(Ryu clan)...it's mythinking..

Louis XIV is the French Henry VIII, a disaster.

Underrated channel

I love this channel. How about Catherine the Great?

Id like to hear about Marly. It was so important to Louis XIV and then all of a sudden it vanishes. Where was it and what happened to it?

Great video! Would you please create one about Tecumseh, the famous Shawnee warrior and politician? Thank you!!!

you should do Phillipe "Augustus"

You do the pronounce the S on the end of Louis!

Did you know.... that after the death of his first wife, King Louis XIV secretly married the governess of his children, Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon ? Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon ... Madame de Maintenon (27 November 1635 - 15 April 1719) was a French woman who would eventually become ... Died: 15 Aprile 1719 (aged 83); Saint Cyr, France Spouse(s): Paul Scarron; Louis XIV of France‎ ...‎

I love your channel.

He originated the art of ballet.

What do you use to edit ur videos

All kings called themselves "Sun King". It all started with King Nimrod and his tower. If people study the Bible like they claim to they would know that. STUDY THE BIBLE AND GROW WISE.

Do facts about Joan the arc

I love the style of your channel. You should cover some English kings.

Here's other things you didn't know about Louie: He had Diabetes 2 and Telogen Effluvium among other diseases. No one knew about those then.

AHH I KNOW THE TRUTH OF THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK ,HINK, ONE OF FOUR

Why was he succeeded by his grand son and not his son?

I'm related to him somehow....

Nice tape..I want to pass to Facebook,thank you..

Actually, the title of sun king is because he danced as the sun in the ballet de la nuit. L

De Medici, Mary Stewart.

I knew these facts; any educated person knows these very basic facts.

I thought it was "Facts You Didn´t Know...". Hm.

me los imagino como Versalles la excelente serie

Yeah, you got Louis XV biography too?

Why did his grandson became the king but not his actual son?

You should do King Richard the First.

Glad they gave the "Versailles" TV series the axe, Louis' despotic rule was hitting too strong a raw nerve in my family.

Interesting fact about Louisiana.

What about ballet!!

But could he dance?

One of the worst Kings France ever had: bankrupted the country by endless battles over 2 square miles of European land but wouldn't give the slightest help to a French adventurer who could have replaced the Portuguese in Brazil - French would be spoken by 200 million more people than it is today; drove the Huguenots - the most commercially active community in the country - from France to become successful everywhere the went: drove them out because they were Protestant and he was a devout Roman Catholic, who was a notorious womanizer - mortal sins one after the other - making him one of the most devoted and energetic hypocrites in history. "After me, the deluge" was absolutely correct but not for the reason he said it. t

Need to work on your Mic pops.

0:24 This is not the right borders. These borders are those just before the Revolution. At the end of the reign of Louis XIV France didn't have Lorraine and Corsica (and got Alsace, Flanders and French catalonia during his reign).

So This king was not like just becous that he like the Rich?!

didn't he have a brother?

He was surpassed by his great-grandson, not his grandson which is noted below.

I was him in one of my past lives..

Louis XIV left Paris because the then capital of France was remembering him the breach of allegiance from the nobility. He made Versailles the new political capital city and created there his new environment precisely to have the same nobility submitted. The castle wasn’t finished when he died in 1715.

the spanish coat of arms is wrong , the portuguese flag is there , at the time the union had ended , i know a little mistake , but at the same time a big one . Nice video tho!

I read on a website party like it's 1660 that when they did a autopsy on Louis that they found a tapeworm in his intestines!

do one on his son.

"At the time"?? "AT THE TIME"??????? HOW DARE YOU!!!!!!!

Great-grandson.

i think he should be called 'King Pooey'

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