MEET the MISTRESSES of Louis XV at the Palace of Versailles | Google Arts & Culture 

They are all filled with rude Chinese tourist now, it's not pleasant.

@@Pfsif EXACTLY!!! it shouldn't be opened to those peasants ugh

Angelica M - I didn’t want it to end either! I 100% agree to wanting to hear more of all those stories.

Angelica M OMGGGG ME TOO!!!! LETS GO VISIT THEM!!!😁

Me too male me dream please more video

Impress UrbanDivinity that doesn't legitimize concunbines as right moral behavior. You're married.

Why ?..........You can't place contemporary mores onto history.

Consrignrant but if the queen did it they would be all up and arms. Here are other thing: back then the woman had to marry their rapist. At one point in history, white families in the south would gather and sit down to watch black ppl get hanged. It wasn't seen as bad but it is bad.

Consrignrant Morality has no definite period of time. Morality is morality.

Dane Mitch Only a person with no sense of history would say that.

That makes two of us - I don't think a lifetime would be enough to study and appreciate every detail in that incredible palace !!!!

There is a room at the Getty Villa in California, Los Angeles which you can visit!

LeAnn , me as well. Ahhhh, I and most persons have a better chance at becoming a celebrity. So many variables to overcome! Soooo much money and school and related travel expenses. Until someone finds you worthy to spend thier money on. But, we can dream...and watch documentaries. Cheers.

mine would be to be a royal mistress.

think knot Am I missing something here? Why is being an art historian so unachievable? Where I come from that’s far more realistic and attainable than becoming a celebrity. 😂

omg I was dreaming about the same thing here while watching it haha

Courtshannon me too😁

Is that what this is from?

no

Yes, it was really well done, agree with you completely and sexy to boot !!!!!

Chai Latte , I thought it was well done as well. I watched all the episodes on an insomnia binge!

I watched that too it was SO interesting. The whole French revolution.

Geoffrey Pédebidau LOL I was like wtf!

Versailles is suburb of paris

Quite! It's like saying Windsor Castle is in London.

And it was originally a swamp!

calme toi. on s'en fout.

Imagine the rules and regulations that go with the job.Probably isolated to just your area of expertise.

Avakin Alessia I didn’t mean then I meant now! As a museum curator or something! I do NOT want to be exposed to that level of human excrement.

Maria Alessia von Navarra seriously is that all you think of after watching one documentary,you idiot!?That was hundreds of years ago😂obviously they clean it everyday😆now it became tourists attraction place..

Doctor Who

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savolrat very small though! Too small and cramped

Melissa Ockey 💁🏼‍♀️depends on which position you try lol 😂

I read somewhere that at certain time periods it was common to sleep propped up because they thought lying down was a bit like "imitating death"

People back then were shorter too

@@nicole_beaumont😂😂😂😂😂

I will add it to my reading list.

@@Petitedelight87K Yeah, I loved his accurate portrayal of life at Versailles. You really get the feel of what it was like to live there, and he was so detailed at analyzing people's personalities and motivations. A valuable skill for someone in his position. Another one I really enjoyed Petite was the book of collected "Letters From Lisalotte." Princess Charlotte was married to Louis XIV's bisexual brother and wrote literally thousands of letters about life at Versailles. She had a lot of power, but she was not very popular and felt an outsider at court. She poured out her feelings in letter after letter, many to her aunt, who was the mother of George I of England. When I read them I felt like I got to know her personally, almost like she was writing them recently, but of course it was many hundreds of years ago. I'll tell you, both those books I felt immersed in and was sorry to see them end.

@@RoberttAvro ty for this! I just finished Versailles the show again and started researching more about it now im getting these books on my list

His father was elevated to the dukedom by Louis XIII.

Ruchika Naik people used to seep half sitting up.

These women were very petite. Pompadour was under 5' tall

People need to learn that there's a lot of body shapes between "rail thin" and "modern American overweight". Look at paintings of the Good Madam de Pompadour, she wasn't overweight, otherwise those corsets would have been impossible.

Ruchika Naik ikr I always wondered why the bed had to be so small. It's looks like a chair too me

At the time people slept sitting up, because laying down was the position of death, and it was believed if you slept laying down you would die in your sleep, Even the king's bed, though it was wide all beds were quite short

It was only Pompadour he didn't have sex with. She didn't really like sex so she instead supplied the king with lots of women. There was a place a house I don't recall the name that had some of the women who were mistresses. They were found for him. The children he had with them or at least with some of them got the last name Aimé. I think Madame Du Barry really loved him and she was a kind person. After his death she would help the people in the village where she lived. She got a new lover and he was killed very brutally and his head thrown into her garden or house. The King got plenty of sex believe me:)

MissWitchiepoo He sure did! Didn't he die of Syphilis or some other STD?

No he didn't. He died from I think you call it the smallpox in English. So when he died he looked awful full of puss all over and he smelled awful too and he was all blackened very sad when you think of it he was a handsome man. Henry the 8th some say died of Syphilis but you know how it is a lot of people a lot of opinions:) I don't think we should envy a lot of these Kings as they had their problems. I remember reading Louis the 14th had this problem in his mouth (I don't know the names in English for deceases I'm afraid) and it had puss in it I think it was like a hole and he as I remembered it stank out of his mouth. It must have been very painful. If you like to read you should read about the death of Axel Von Fersen the so called by some lover of Marie Antoinette. He died in a horrific way. There is a great documentary about him but it is Swedish and this guy tells the story so you feel that you are there watching:) I haven't read any books about Royalty in years as I started genealogy and found my own ancestors were much more interesting because they were MY family and showed the history of the kind of people they didn't write much about through history while others were well known and made me want to know more:)

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You didn't listen carefully. For a while they had a romantic relationship-but later began the king's friend, advisor

It's said that Madam Tussaud's wax figure "Sleeping Beauty" was modeled after Madame du Barry.

Mine Too ! 🌹

la plus belle et issue du peuple!

Madame Du Barry was sent away for instance because the bishop could not hear the king’s confession and absolve him before dying. It doesn’t mean it was “ok” he has to follow the rules technically like everyone else.

Louis XV actually married Marie Lecszynska, daughter of the former King of Poland (later Duke of Lorraine) not the daughter of the King of Spain.

wow you should not embarrass yourself in public with your history knowledge lol... He married the Daughter of the Ex King of Poland Maria Leszinska !!! his Grandfather Louis the sun king married the spanish Infanta

BTW Frances state religion is still Catholicism :-))

Maria Farrell It’s also very strange because Louis was extremely religious and called himself ‘very Christian.’ He always prayed. Yet he really liked adultery.

Isn't that an uncomfortable position to sleep?

@@MissAbigael02 well yeah, but it's not that bad. You've probably slept on a chair or couch before. It's like going on the toilet, were supposed to sit but I've kneeled so long that it's more comfortable for me. Sry for weird analogy.

@@toasterr4238 dont worry, totally get it

Autumn Bottoms it may have been a blessing and a curse for her since Versailles, as beautiful as it is, could be a toxic environment

She was not happy there. Austrian court was very different.

Gabrielle Vachon same! Sometimes I forget english words and use them french. Also sometimes my french accent kicks in real hard and it sounds hilsrious

anal lease keating back then people were smaller than what we are now

Nini N. were they? Royalty had a lot of access to nutrition and good food . Maybe the common folk were shorter. Queen Elizabeth was 6 feet and above, if I remember correctly

The reason why : during those times, people used to sleep in a half-sitting position.

Louis XVI was considered tall at 5'7".

Hormones in the food we eat now has people growing taller, ruining every mother’s vag with these big ass babies haha

Today the real fucking whore called republic... terrible times for france

And people are still dying on building sites in the United Emirates, Quatar and many countries in the Middle East. And India isn’t far behind. Very little changes

I disagree.

funny man. original too. I'll consider.

Anneshia

Matthijs Gillissen

Matthijs Gilli not

Rafael Eduardo because it's too fragile and tourists can't behave themselves

Because people are idiots and the security would be nearly impossible?

TalkingTalie wow, I see. thanks 😀

Did you ever see Versailles during tourist season? Even the Hall of Mirrors is SO packed with people, you cant really see ANYTHING! These small rooms would be overwhelmed! By the way Royal Mistress was a great honor! They were not common whores!

you can see it, just need to book a small group visit it cost 7 euros per person

Blue kid Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe people used to sleep in a sitting position due to their enormous hair. Also, they would be a bit shorter in height than today's average to begin with. So, that's why the bed is rather short.

Black Blossom yes they used to sir. But the 'big hair' part is wrong. They were wigs and hair pieces. They had normal natural hair for bed

Alexfolledemoi I always thought, since all those wigs and hair pieces were such an effort to put on and arrange, they would just sleep in them in a sitting position so they would last several days on their heads

You run the risk of getting ur head cut off though

It wasn't such a "low birth" per see. Her father is rumored to have been a Friar and she received a wonderful education thanks to her mother's employers (wealthy bourgeois) who were very fond of Jeanne. She became a courtesan (and not a prostitute) later in her teens after meeting the Count du Barry elder and married his younger brother in order to be presented at court (only titled aristocrats were presented to the King) - Generally speaking, a courtesan was someone who entertained men for a living, who possessed certain artistic skills like music, dancing, painting, etc. and who could choose whether or not to offer clients bed favors, whereas a prostitute was unskilled and who only offered bed services.

talking about that particular Queen- no, the wife of Louis XV, Maria Leszczyńska, was known as a very demure and religious woman, and had a very low esteem at the end of her life becuse of how her husband was far much more interested in his mistresses than herself. On the other hand she was very active in helping the poor& supporting the art and culture and therefore well-liked among the subjects. Talking about the queens in general- the European history knows some cases of queens having an explicit affairs (like Isabella of France or Joan of Navarra), but generally only widows and divorced queens would be safe to do so. Nuff said that the past times were pretty sexist and when the males didn't have to worry about two-timing, a woman cheating on her husband would even face a legal charges, as the society expeected her to be pious and virtuous. The queen having an affair would endanger the dynasty legitimacy and if caught, her fate would be not the happy one ( while Hery 8th was the only one among the European monarch to go as far as executing his wives for adultery, the usual practice was still either locking the adulterous queen in monastery\home arrest or divorcing her& exiling her with reputation ruined to that extent no one would ever wanted to do anything with her anymore.

Many of the women at Versailles had lovers. Marie Antoinette certainly did. She had a special room built for her lover Count Fersen above her bedchamber.