The Collapse Of France's Sauciest Dynasty | Rise & Fall Of Versailles | Real Royalty 

When I visited Versailles I realized why the revolution happened in France. The extravagant life of the French Kings and Nobles became crushing weight on the common people who starved and died as they enjoyed their feasts in all of Versailles’ grandeur. It was built on the backs and bodies of the common people until it crushed them so badly that they had to revolt. Ironically, it was the nobles who set the revolution in motion to stop themselves from being taxed.

"She was as beautiful as an angel and as stupid as a basket." I absolutely love the historian enhancing the narration. She is so intelligent, so clever, and so beautiful.

The actor that plays Louis XVI is surprisingly close to the paintings you see of the actual man. Great casting.

We have to understand that Louis was at 6-7 years old, awoken by his servants in the middle of the night and had to hide under a curtain with his brother to avoid being taken by the rebellious nobles. His father managed to compromise himself with the nobles an appease them, but Louis definitely learn from the experience. It was something that deeply made him fearful of the nobility. Thus he decided to build them a huge golden cage to have them all supervise and adore him, to assure loyalty and to occupy their minds with other stuff that wasnt "plotting against him".

The Bourbons: We're so Saucy. The Valois: Hold my Beer.

When I visited Versailles, I kept thinking "Wow, Louis XIV REALLY liked himself." Versailles was nothing short of magical.

Having gone to Versailles I can honestly say that no video or picture can do it justice, it's something that you have to witness in person to behold. What was also interesting was to just imagine being/living there while not too far away there are people starving. Not saying the monarchy deserved what they got, but after that trip I'm not surprised it happened one bit.

“She was as beautiful as an angel but as stupid as a basket.” My new back-handed compliment from now on.

oh they had a budget budget for this doc and i'm here for it

I die at the beauty of his garments, the fabrics and patterns are mesmerizing. I'm a woman and much prefer them to the dresses of the women, who were quite beautiful too, but not as. What a wonderful documentary, the best ever made about Louis XIV, thank you.

Every time I see Versailles I can hardly believe I was actually inside that palace; the Hall of Mirrors is simply awesome, and the gardens are truly stunning to think this glorious place was built so long ago. Paris! What a trip! I am so glad I went with my sister to vist her Army kids in Germany because I'm sure I would have never had the opportunity again to travel around Europe.

The greed of the people in power was and is still is disgusting. Terrifically represented in the third episode.

French is such a beautiful language. You could cuss me out in French and I'll still listen. Oui❤️

The description of Madame du Barry as being "..as beautiful as an angel and as daft as a basket" is a direct translation of a comment made by a courtier using the idioms of the 18th century.

Excellent documentary. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute. 10 out of 10. Thanks!

I visited Versailles some years ago. It was spectacular especially the Hall of Mirrors and the views from the balcony. Shame when you consider the human cost to the people and the state, ultimately causing the downfall.

What always fascinates me is how Louis was able to take the most powerful men of the age (people that'd today be multi-billionaires, CEO's and 5 star Generals) and turn them into servile buffoons, dancing like idiots and clamoring to help dress a grown man.

I feel a little sympathy toward Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, I mean Louis' grandfather kinda set the stage for the events that happened to his descendent during his own lifetime. Still, dude was so painfully out of touch with no backbone it cost him and his family their lives.

I watched this not chopped up years ago when the Versailles show first premiered. There were 3 episodes. It's the exact same footage. It's very well done, so I'm not surprised they would reuse it as a resource- It's looks VERY expensively produced.

The French architecture is the most beautiful in the world very elegant as well as there furniture also

The Ossolinski family in Poland had the Worlds largest Castle before the building of Versailles. And it had many unique qualities…like running water and one of the 7 ball rooms having a fish aquarium ceiling.

The perfect binge on Boxing Day, 2022. After the hectic holidays, this is my idea of recovery & relaxation. ~Happy New Year Everyone😊 from Canada 🇨🇦

This documentary is rather good! I learned so much more about these three kings, I feel like I know them better now. I visited Versailles when I was about 10 and I still remember it - everything was so colourful and so big and shiny. I loved the gardens, to this day I like gardens like those.

I always thought that Louis XIV's overspending doomed his kids. They couldn't get out of his debt without excessive taxes. They also didn't have the skills to handle the social problems France had at that time.

Louie built this palace literally, on the corpses of the people of France. No wonder they beheaded his descendant. The beginning of the end.

The Galeries De glass is so beautiful. I want so badly to see it before I die.

4:08 "It's good to be the King" Louis the XVI - A history of the world

At 2:01:30. If you think the Europeans were obsessed with their kings' sex lives, you should see China. The Chinese were so obsessed with their emperors' sex lives that they had one official at court whose job was to record, in writing, every single time the emperor had sex, as well as the events during the act of sex. The official would discreetly be behind a curtain or a wooden screen inside wherever the emperor had sex and then record on paper everything that happened. That way court officials could keep track of which concubine/empress got pregnant with which kid--especially the coveted baby boys--and have it all on official files that could be checked and referenced. This was very necessary since in the Chinese system ALL the boys sired by the emperor--and sometimes this could be up to a dozen or more--and his many concubines, along with the empress, had an equal claim to the throne. Very unlike the European system where the only legitimate boys (and sometimes girls) who had a claim to the throne were the ones sired by the queen.

I have been to the Palace it is beautiful, to imagine the people who walked these halls, their gorgeous clothes .

It costs around €100,000,000 a year to operate Versailles, most of which is covered by revenue generated, donations & sponsorships. Approximately €15,000,000 comes from a annual Grant from the French Government, a figure which is far less than what I had expected.

The intimacy of details is really informative.

This is so well done, an excellent period piece, it is unfathomable luxury how they lived and still live in Europe when you're "royal." All of the actors were exemplary.

And after the revolution all the royal families in Europe were in panic. No wonder, to see an absolute king and queen headless (when you thought you were untouchable) must have been very frigtening.

Excellent. Beautifully produced and acted. The film brilliantly conveys how the personal flaws as well as the fatal meekness of the monarchy and the detached selfishness and the cravenness of the noble and clerical corruption created a decisive and irrefutable trajectory of stunningly horrifying violence. Historical film that successfully express the distinctly palpable essence of the time are as important as the facts.

Top of the line documentary on a palace beyond belief and the three very different French monarchs associated with it.

this was a great study of the french royal family, i learned a lot from this.......👍👍👍

Just amazing documentaryship. That may not be a word, but means a lot from me. Very well done and thank you very much!🥰

The best channel on youtube. Love documentaries like this, im gonna watch every video on this channel lol

Louis VI should have assembled his guards and, without notice, arrested all the noblemen in one fell swoop. ... and give them a choice: pay 20% of their gross worth toward taxes, or remain in prison. Note: the USA has an untaxable segment of society: Religious institutions. Even mega wealthy Church groups are immune from taxes. They should pay their share.

The three are depicted very endearingly in this one. Most of the things I’ve seen have protrayed them as rather dastardly.

Great series of documentaries

His religious persecutions succeeded in exterminating every single known person that bore my family name, except for one. From this sole survivor of the violence of the king of France, I descend. Every one of the thousands of us world-wide descend from that one lucky survivor. On my grandmother's side, he also exterminated the entire extended family, cousins included, and again - only one little boy of 10 years old escaped to South Africa and survived to carry on the lineage. Louis has oceans of blood on his conscience, this vain, but fascinatingly unique man. Thank you for an extraordinary documentary. I can see much expense and effort had gone into the making. You have done the world a service.

,,,and here we have Versailles!!! BEAUTIFUL!

I have been to the palace. And let me tell you beautiful is a name that doesn't come nearly close to describing it.

Louis IV famous phrase is not "I am Versailles" !! It was" L'État, c'est moi" ..."The State is ME"

I found the palace at Versailles a rather underwhelming building. It's disproportionately flat and spread out. I could name several palaces that are far more architecturally beautiful: Vienna's Schonbrunn, Naples' Caserta, several imperial palaces in Russia, not to mention Blenheim in the UK.

There must be a rather large percentage of people in France/Europe related to Louis XV if he had close to 50 children.

A brilliant docu; extremely well done.

I really like the content and quality of the channel and always look forward to an upload thank you and have a good one

the Battle of Fontenoy that Louis XIV helms was the conflict that Long John Silver claims took his leg in Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island". This gains the trust of the protagonist Jim Hawkins and tertiary protagonist Squire Trewlawney who thereafter trusts Silver completely, failing to recognize his true nature as a blood thirsty pirate, instead seeing a poor naval veteran who had given nearly everything to his king and country...so hires him as ship's cook on the upcoming treasure hunt...along with all of Silver's pirate crew subordinates...

King Louis 15th reminds me of King Solomon (Bible) who started with so much promise but ended with so much dread. They did not live to see the end of their kingdoms while being be distracted by the allure of women. Both rulers set their hearts on the god of pleasure and ended so sad. The difference is that Louis XV did not realize the concept of God and the Church unlike Solomon.

Enjoyed this very much. Many thanks.

another interesting documentary about the Bourbon dynasty and their seat of power, Versailles...

Bravo for that mother who yelled at the evil king! She’s a real hero! King didn’t care about how many people, fathers with families to support who were left to starve! And everyone he’s killed had parents and siblings, etc who were hurting after their children (adults) died whom he killed! Bravo for her! If everyone would have done it, he wouldn’t have been so surprised at how much he was despised! This is the problem with Kings: they take all the money from their subjects for themselves and don’t think for a second about where their wealth came from!

I don't think the real Louis XIV was anywhere near as good looking as the actor chosen to play him in the movie!I don't know why film makers insist on doing this.

Thanks for the upload!

One of your best yet… but then I’ve said that many times over the years 💙

The War of the Spanish Succesion he actually won it, and thus he installed his grandson (who was the grandson of Louis XIV spanish wife from whom he inherited the claim, although Louis XIV's mother was also a Spanish princess), who founded the Bourbon dynasty in spain that survives to this day in the figures of King Philippe VI of Spain and her heir, Princes Leonor. Both direct descendants of Louis XIV

"I'm rather fond of Madame du Berry, she was as beautiful as an angel and as stupid as a basket" @1:43:29

16:21. The former mistress of Louis was FORCED to go to the monastery. (Gentle and polite correction) history university of France

Nothing new under the Sun, when it comes to the behavior of Humanity and those in the Power Structure, no matter what Country, our Persons in Power over others, especially the Poor verses the Rich.

I love the story of King Louie IV! May his soul rest in peace!

So if Madame de Pompadour never encouraged the Austrian alliance France would have continued as is for a very long time. Within a few decades, the Nobles will stir up public hate for Austria; inducing the French Revolution. So honestly the hate for Austria was so strong that Marie Antoinette didn't really have a chance. She cannot be blamed for the plight of the French people. I think the fault falls squarely on the French nobility's shoulders for the fall of the French monarchy. The nobility destroyed it because of their hate for Austria and life at Versailles.

"Let them eat cake," she said, then OFF went her head. Not the best choice of words, when your people are starving, dear.

It was a real pleasure to watch your videos! I really liked the way you reveal the topic, keep the viewer in suspense.

Very helpful video!

Excellent documentary 👏

They say that he had hundreds of children. Lord have mercy

Such an awesome doco. So well put together

Such a magnificent place & requires multiple visits, like so much of Western Europe. As a young ballet dancer, I could not wait to visit the palace of Louis the Sun King & it didn't disappoint. Travelling through Europe and visiting so many magical & enchanting places is highly recommended!

If you think about it, it's truly ingenious! - meaning - Louis the XIVth's idea about a magnificent center of power, that would dictate eveything - fashion trends, elegance trends, (even a worldwide renowned SIENCE CENTER) - the turning of court-life into a public etiquette show in which the biggest nobles of France would play minor roles in a show, on a state-sponsored theater that IN THE END would turn the mere "play" into REAL-LIFE politics. HE HAD A POINT when he (seemingly) said that it was much cheaper to have all the nobility concentrated in one place - CLOSE TO HIM - the ONLY CENTER OF POWER - than leave them "scattered" all over France, with too much free time on their hands. It also reveals one thing about Louis - his DEEP TRAUMA from the time of the events of his childhood, when during the "Fronde" he almost lost his throne. EVERYTHING there - in Versailles - was done with one purpose - to centralize all the power in his hands, to such an extent, that any idea of a "revolution" or even REVOLT, like the one that killed King Charles of England, would never - EVER - even appear. The BIGGEST French names were all given "secondary roles" in the play, to Louis, the main protagonist. The "Sun" and the "planets" orbiting around it (around HIM) - is a very properly chosen depiction. PS. Big thanks for uploading this material - very well done and extremely interesting!;) :)

Great documentaries 60 count on timer. Mark time for Part Two... gp.

Bring back humility, how can this be seen as great and glorious, even splendid! Insane rather.

They call a person who cannot control his desires.pervert, Idiot etc…

Very timely comment about the people who attain power conducting a most "brutal inquisition into minds, speech and morals..." You can see, there is nothing that has not happened before.

Remember, for all the opulent depictions of LXIV, the man bragged that he'd only ever had two baths his entire life: the day he was born and the day he got married.

I feel like this serie needs an episode for King Louie Phillipe the last french king.

Excellent doc

59:04- Louis XV 1:58:10- Louis XVI

I think other dynasties could give them a run ...for.example the ones who combined executing the Templers with the very scandalous Tour de Nesle affair ....plus basically shanghai-ing the Popacy to France

Fascinating. Another commenter here writes of the Anglo perspective, which is of course significant but more to the point is historical perspective. As an American, I have always been proud of my country and especially of our Constitution; people here are supposed to be free. And equal. Many "normal" people still have wonderful lives in the United States, yet I see the egregious behavior of our "elite" and our government. If the truth be known, we are no more moral than that of pre-revolutionary France. What's worse, the leaders of governments today can have lasting impacts on all of humanity - witness the recent COVID pandemic. I do not in the least feel judgemental of these historical figures. I am myself humbled by their humanity. We do the best that we can do in our time on this earth. Sometimes we are ill-equipped for our challenges.

Excellent!!

Très splendide information historique-culturelle

Would be curious to see a cast listing of the actors/actresses involved.

This video clearly demonstrates how preposterous a royal family is in modern times

My son died also he died at the end of a rope and my tribute to him is I'm still standing and relooking my part in his life. Keep walking three dad's and thank you from me.

***** A wonderful documentary....the clothes, the details, amazing

Thank you.

Thankyou for classical ballet Louie.

The fall of the Bourbon dinasty... And they still reigning in 2022 in Spain. Viva la casa Capetiana de Borbón

i loved this !!!!!

Any chance you can get a list of the movies you took clips from? I'd love you forever.

Excellent. Thank you.

It amazing and tragic at the same time how the palace that Louis 14th built would be the beginnings of the end for his dynasty at least in France . The fact the clergy and nobility did not pay their way and cost for funding revolutionary war in America ultimately brought them down .

Always found it kind of fun that André Le Nôtre designed Greenwich Park.

So Mme de Pompadour was the Ghyslaine Maxwell of her day, interesting.

Oh my God they actually had to censor a documentary?

Is there a part two to this? That goes into the Revolution?

Hey! I know that guy! LOL The actor that plays Louis is Stanley Weber. He also played the Comte St. Germain in Outlander Season 2! 😊

My problem is with the casting of Du Barry. She was notoriously BLONDE.