Versailles, France: Ultimate Royal Palace - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite 

Yeah,tax payers money lol

open the pod bay doors, hal.

@@rat1709 I'm afraid I cannot do that, Rat.

unfortunately, they were sent to the guillotine....

@@mookie5972 The King himself only used Royal Revenues, including Québécois taxes. However Colbert, his Finance Minister essentially, got him to include French tax, hence the exorbitant price on the peoples.

Angela The Angel it would of been a parking lot or Gas station if they did demolish it.

they’ve worked very hard sine WW II to make it like you see here.

Angela The Angel such a shame the tuileries palace was destroyed though

Lynne Jenkins what do you mean?

@@HAMID___ the palace was left in ruins until around 1950

Same :')

Wow awsome🙃

Yes very tru e great presenter

lol ii hope uu dont ever say something like this again

What a great thought, thank you I agree.

Go see the Italians one. So beautiful and different styles for every region. For example, go check "Reggio di Caserta" guys.

@kroooassant.

@kroooassant why you can't man? If you wanna go you should go. If it makes you happy.

@kroooassant oh ok, I don't wanna be invasive. Hey, have a great day. I hope you'll do what you love in your life❤️.

kroooassant You sound like a Russian person pretending to be someone else.

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Did you get to go back? I'm going for the first time soon!!

At least Buckingham palace still houses royalty All the flip flops and crocs in Versailles are a shame

Buckingham Palace wasn't built by an absoutle monarchy. Why does France have these grand palaces? Because they had absoutle monarchies at the time when the grander styles arrived in Europe. England was done with absoutle monarchies when this was being built. Parliament were in control. Buckingham Palace was originally a Manor House and then converted into a palace by King George IV, who never had this sort of power. There was simply no need for a British king or queen to live like this because they didn't need to show off their unchallenged power. They had to get money from Parliament at this point and Parliament never really gave British kings or queens that much money. In fact, British monarchs at this point weren't that wealthy compared to their European counterparts because Britain became a Constitutional Monarchy before a lot of other European nations. If Britain was an absolute monachry when they had their power and glory they could've easily built something like this but 10x larger and grander- but they never needed to when they were the superpower in Europe.

Yes France has the best architectural beauty but Britain had the best empire!🇬🇧

This comment thread is silly when you consider the truth that all empires and luxurious palaces are just vestiges of oppressive, unjust States that used their power to crush common folks. There is no inherent greatness in structures and symbols that reflect imperial authoritarianism. You can marvel at the artistic value of it or at the sense of history that it evokes. But you can never be proud of symbols of tyranny, suppression and authoritarianism.

No not my winter palace

M P ya jackass peasant!!!

The video is 7 minutes I went to Versailles 2 days back to back walked and biked on the Gardens I still didn't think it was enough Versailles. So....

Very very nice

Liked your comment, it is so on my bucket list. Have gotten funny vibes in other places, its interesting.

Well, from gossips i heard, Napoleon resided in versailles and his wife slept in the queen’s bedroom and all she had was nightmares and she felt her presence was haunting this room and she asked not to be in the palace again, which is why they left versailles and stayed in the grand trianon. Its said versailles is haunted with Louis XVI and Antoinette’s ghosts and i even heard at night they see her carriage enter the palace. Interesting gossips tho lol i want them to be real for somereason.

lilMissF0F0 wouldnt antoinette haunt the trianon more? Afterall, she was the one who established trianon.. and there are stories that were published as books i think (?) That people have seen ghosts of antoinette and her guests having a party at trianon

Luna Miere i would believe it. The petit trianon was so dear to her. But i think they resided in the grand trianon more and for the petit trianon i heard that napoleon renovated the hamlet and gifted it to his second empress since shes related to antoinette and is obsessed with her too

lilMissF0F0 i went to France and I went to Versailles but I never knew that

Moisés Gaulês I went the same year as you but I went in March

I went in 2009 or 2010 and it was the best experience of my entire life

I wish to go soon :(

At the time of Louis XIV, the royal garden was part of a royal park four times larger than the current gardens (1977 acres today against nearly 8000 acres). It was surrounded by a forest. Louis XIV, like most French monarchs, loved hunting.

Me too😀

More like varc saiiii

Not easy for English people to say Versailles ^^ i m french, so easy to say this 🙂

/vɛʀsaɪ/ ≈ VERy, SAd, eYE

Me too lol

+MeLexdy No, you should read. To be quick: Help to the american revolution (estimated to 3 trillion current dollars in gold + navy + weapons + men) > huge debt > collapse > bourgeois seeing an opportunity to take the power > people in the streets > Robespierre > Anarchy > Napoleon.

+Doney Hon E Napoleão forçou a fuga da família real portuguesa, aliada do U.K, em 1808 para o Brasil, o que ocasionou com o tempo na nossa independência em 1822 e a instauração do primeiro reinado no império do Brasil.

Fillipe Azevedo I don't understand Portuguese Fillipe. I'm french. I speak french, english, spanish, italian, german and latin. Do you speak one of those language my friend?

Doney Hon My english is not good but... After rise to the power, Napoleon forced the Portuguese royal family, ally of the U.K, to flee to Brazil in 1808. What, in time, resulted in our independence in 1822, and the establishment of the First reign. - Sorry for my english :/

Fillipe Azevedo Your english is fine Filllipe. Thank you for the information. I didn't know that.

Or the king of Bavaria?

Und was haben diese Figuren mit dem Palast zu tun ? Sie haben diese Gebäude NICHT erbaut sondern nur BESETZT. # TARTARIA... Darum brauchen wir NIEMALS die bekannten Bewohner für irgendetwas zu bewundern - sie waren schließlich NICHT die Erbauer 🤷

Well, you're right, comparing the Kings, he was more powerful. He was the state. Victoria's empire was far less ruled be herself and instead ruled by "her" government, the parliament and the prime minister. But comparing Empires, Victoria's was probably the most powerful empire the world had ever seen and probably ever see again. If you would compare actual absolute monarchs, the empress Catherine the Great of Russia is a more suited contestant vs the Sun King.

Queen Victoria was a constitutional monarch while King Louis XV was an absoutle monarch in two completely different centuries. King Louis XV literally saw himself as a God and built this palace so grandly to show that off and the fact he was unchallenged. Here Louis XV was in complete control, while Queen Victoria wasn't, her Parliament was. And Victoria had an entire historic age named after her and no one can question she ruled a very large and very powerful empire. Queen Elizabeth I (the Virgin Queen) is more comparable to him.

In terms of cultural influence Victoria was more powerful. In terms of power certainly Louis XV. Two different monarchs at different time frames.

*Roman Empire has entered the chat

Louis XIV, not the XV, Louis XV were a little bit a lame king....

Pandemonium Lig well actually the architectural brilliance of the palace is the splendour of all of France

The gardens are amazing, obviously for modern standards they are magnifique, but imagine the same gardens with hundreds of fountains pumped with gravity with exotic trees in an area where it was a swamp.

You can watch on RU-vid several Videos about the Versailles gardens.

Pandemonium Lig ya jackass snob!!!

7 minute video my friend you need to watch the whole thing it's over 40 minutes or an hour I think

+freelancelady wrong ! after revolution, France had 2 emperors and 3 kings. Napoléon Ier, Louis XVIII, Charles X, Louis-Philippe et Napoléon III.

Louis XVIII, Charles X were never crowned though.

freelancelady actually it wasn't just a handful of people, in fact he lived at the palace with his entire court THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE and also he did open the palace to the public and they were allowed inside as long as they were dressed properly

freelancelady why didnt you count ottomans

Charles X is the last king to be crowned in Reims...

Why? It only meant somebody had bloodthirsty ancestors.

@@adrianaloborec2205 I am fascinated also because the region of my ancestors (Abruzzo) and my town (Chieti) was dominated by noblemen of different ranks together with Catholic authorities.

He actually looks good

You know nothing.

@@bobduvar Marie Antoinette's execution was just sexist

@@marianne6440 lol

France was never broke stop your bulshit the revolution was a choice by the people we even do it again in 1830 and 1848 ! No King in France ! We are the descendant of one people , one people we do not need a fuc**g king

@@rachelsombo9045 the people revolted because the King ran out of money to support the government. He levied heavy tax on the already crushed peasantry while the nobles and clergy did not pay any which lead to anger and resentment which then in turn lead to revolution.

Are u joking

@@gianmattia13 doubtful

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@@serolatei9262 ftg

@@leroiarouf1142 .

The most famous as far as I know (you forgot them) remain Peterhof in Russia and Caserta in Italy. I'm not sure you mentionned all the German little palaces too.

I'm sorry but you are very wrong. All those palaces have completely different styles.

What a complete barnacle.

Versaille the largest castle in the world ever built

Interesting

bhushan magdum more like Chinese

Because some Asians are rich that they do nothing than traveling.

In all France, they love France culture food and everything

That’s because most Europeans have seen places like this. I live in Amsterdam and I pass by the Royal Palace everyday and lost count how many times I’ve been inside that place. Most Europeans who can afford it will go to places outside of Europe. The history and traditions of Europe are still so heavily integrated in the the Europe of today that palaces like this are a lot less special to us than they are to people who have never seen something like it.

Tu as raison j'habite à Versailles et je peux te dire que les chinois, j'en vois beaucoup beaucoup beaucoup.