What It Was Like To Live At Versailles 

Versailles: History’s first reality show.

So THIS is why France got rid of their royalty

“On Wednesdays we wear pink!” -Louis XIV

Louis showing people that he was eating Louis showing people that he was sleeping Louis showing people that he was doing private business Basically Louis XIV is one of first Vlogger before Vlog itself was founded.

Damn imagine thinking you’re above everyone and your whole home smells like utter poop

So basically it was like living at frat house

Imagine trying to have a morning quickie but the morning clothes crew comes in.

Versailles: Home of the original Kardashians

A lavish palace with a hundred servants and exotic animals, but no bathroom? What kind of bizarro world is this? 😟😟😟

Bruh imagine your house smelled like a middle school boys locker room took 17 dumps a day

I imagine Louis laughing to himself. “Look at these fools, they can’t overthrow me because they’re watching me take a shit”

Everyone:" I share my life on social media. I'm a star" King Louis:" Hold my wine"

The last thing I want to see when I wake up is another person, let alone 100. Yikes

King Louis XIV invented mukbangs

King Louis’s friend: “can I bring my cat over?” King Louis: “no” King Louis’s friend: “can I bring my lion?” King Louis: “yes, of course”

I've visited the palace of Versailles and it's really hard to wrap your mind around just how massive this place really was. We were there for about 3 or 4 hours and only had time to go into about 5 or 6 rooms. I've also visited Shakespeare's hometown and his childhood home. Although he didn't reach his prime time of success until after his death, it's shocking to see just how lavish the lifes of royals really were/are. Even in comparison to people who were even incredibly well respected and admired for their contribution to art.

"What do you do for a living?" "I'm the King's piss boy"

How about a video on the life of a Chinese concubine

"I got to throw the kings diarrhea away this morning!" "Oh franscuia your so lucky"

Looking at this I think how often we forget what a huge privilege running water and plumbing is. It is easy to forget how far humanity has come. Saving lives as well as noses!

No wonder Europeans have such a great perfume industry... Imagine the effort it takes to cover that stench

LOUIS XIV WOULD SURELY LOVE LIVESTREAMING HIMSELF TODAY.

The palace looks very grand but it is is difficult to imagine life without hot and cold running water and baths.

Just wait until people of the future talk about how unbearable it was to live now.

what it was to live during the Ming Dynasty. yep i wanna see that.

When he pronounced coucher as couch I felt that

Sounds like my 3yr old she requires an audience for everything. I guess Louie never grew out of his threes!

The purpose of Versailles was to just party and keep the nobles docile while Louis centralized the kingdom, he certainly had his privacy when he wanted.

An erudite explanation of the origin of the French perfume industry.

Mom: when are you going to get a real job? Me: but mom, I collect the chamber pot!

My ancestors the Charpentier lived at Versailles and descended from ancient Kings of France. Marc Antoine Charpentier, a famous French composer and Jeanne Baptise Charpentier, a famous artist to the court of France. In the year 1790 the family fled to Canada where other Charpentier(s) had settled as early as 1745 to start a new life when so many nobles and royals were losing their head to the guillotine.

something about the slight sarcasm in his narration just makes every video he does perfect

Cats wouldn’t have lived among all that human stench anyway.

This sounds like a nightmare.

The fact that this was so normal to them. Ive tried to wrap my head around that for years.

Imagine bad breath and body odor with heavy clothing without deodorant must be so hot 🥵

that sounds awful. Imagine the life of a commoner

I’m so glad I wasn’t born back then. No bathing,bad smells and absolutely no medical care. No thanks!

It sounds like hell on Earth, frankly.

At Versailles there were no children other than those of the Royal family. Nobles had to lodge their children in the village of Versailles or keep them home at their domains. The various offices awarded to the nobles were shared by quarter, so that four times as many nobles could have posts. So even if you were the carrier of the royal bedpan it was only 3 months a year. In his younger days Louis likes to hunt, so that courtiers who could ride and shoot had an advantage.

I went to Versailles 50 years ago this month. I’m glad they got the stench out by then.

They basically had a live audience reality tv show

I’ve been to Versailles, it is amazing though in terms of architecture and art

An important facet of Versailles court life was dance. You mention the frequent parties; many featured dance, of course. But, apart from the dance performances by the resident dance corps -- with whom Louis himself, an accomplished dancer, would perform -- balls attended by the courtiers consisted almost entirely of solo and couple choreographies by the courtiers, each in turn as all the others watched. Baroque dance is the ancestor of modern ballet, and is just as involved and difficult to master. So, a large part of how Louis kept his courtiers busy was for them to have to keep learning and practicing high-level dance skills. Their standing in court life strongly depended on their dance performance abilities.

Could you please make a video on the 20s and how the discovery of king Tut’s tomb affected fashion of the time?

Literally just started learning about this in school, will link teachers

I really like this series. Just one minor comment: the king's morning and evening dressing rituals are pronounced "le-vay"(to wake up) and "coo-shay"(to go to sleep)!

I visited the palace of Versailles on a week long school trip to France when I was 13. I remember just how beautiful and lavish it was which jarred with the fact that our teachers had told us about the unhygienic toilet habits of it's residents. They didn't just go in chamber pots but would find a quiet corner or secluded cubby hole and relieve themselves right there! This along with all the animals doing the same thing, and the fact that the people didn't exactly wash regularly meant the palace reeked! Also I love this channel but the word courtier isn't pronounced like the brand Cartier, I wouldn't have mentioned it but he just wouldn't stop saying it in the video!

Weird fact : Louis XIV took two baths in his entire life.

When this mans pronounced “coucher” “COW-CHUURRR” instead of “coo-shay” my 7 years of French died.

I enjoyed this video but what I'd very much like to see is an in depth doco about the many underground rail systems of the world. Their inception, building techniques, engineering difficulties and pesos, responsible etc. Many thanks. I love your channel.

Thanks for another GREAT video.

if you speak french this episode is soooo painful lmao.

only royalty could turn a delicious dinner into an uncomfortable fashion show

A+ video! LOVE IT! That is an unforgettable history!

This a great knowledge to know about them. I would love to hear more about them & what they do. Great video.

I love history!

I visited Versailles a few years back. Its so beautiful now, you wouldn’t imagine how disgusting it must’ve really been back in the day lol

Versailles is literally Louis XIV, it is his incarnation into a palace and the symbol absolutism.

Short, sweet, and informative!

No wonder Marie Antoinette would always scape to the petite trianon everytime she could.

It would be so great if you guys actually cited your sources in the description of the videos, or listed them at the end of the video. Not only would that seriously improve your overall credibility and allow teachers to make better use of these videos as student resources, it would allow viewers who are interested in learning more to seek the information directly from the same source that you got it from. And of course, the actual historians who did the research deserve some credit too.

This video should have been longer lol I loved it!!! Love your channel! New sub here! 🖐️

I absolutely love your voice, it's sarcastic and entertaining.

The "er" in _"lever"_ and _"coucher"_ are NOT pronounced like they are in English, but are pronounced as "eh" like the "ae" in "reggae"

It almost sounds like a twitch streamers life, people watching all their mundane daily tasks.

This is a very charming place, I hope I can return to visit sometime in the future when all this is over. Seeing and sharing places like this is why I love traveling and make videos so much!

Marie Antoinette perfectly summed up the reality show that was life in Versailles "How disagreeable! How tiresome!"

One reason that Louis had the courtiers waiting on him hand and foot was that when he was a child the nobility tried to revolt and take over the throne. Louis,once he had power, had all the nobility come to court where he could keep his eye on them by making them become his...servants.

I can't believe that even the Palace of Versailles was full of shit during this time.

Wonderful!!! Do more!!!!!

What a visit ! Thank youu

This was very very interesting!!! Thank you...

Good stuff guys. Keep it coming.

My grandpa lives very close to the palace and when my mom was younger she worked as a tour guide there

That place is beautiful I was lucky to visit Versailles 3 months ago

The trustworthiness of this channel is so hit and miss that I can't bring myself to subscribe. I'm afraid your leading many people astray with some of your videos for the sake of regularly scheduled postings.

Imagine living in a home you can easily get lost into or never find your ways out lol

AMAZING AND LOVELY VIDEO I LOVE KING LOUIS 14TH AND HAPPY EASTER 2020!!

The chalice from the palace.....etc. Thanks Danny Kaye !!

I would of hated to have people dress me in the evening and morning

While the French peasants starved literally. No wonder they stormed the palace!

I was in Paris las April and loved it so much I'll be going back for a longer stay. Versailles will be one of the highlights of my next trip tfs

This is so full of inaccuracies, I just can’t.

I feel like a nobleman wouldn’t take a massive dookey in the palace hallway, but hey idk 🤷‍♂️

I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL!!!!!!!! Edit: Thank you for liking my comment Weird History! It’s such an honor!

You did pretty good on the french pronounciations ilke grand couvert and chateau, but man, coucher and lever lol. A coucher sounds like a frat party lol. Thx for the vid man.

I have been there. The gardens are really spectacular!

I guess introverts just DIED. Whew! Never could have done it!!!

“lev-ay” and “coo-shay”, darling.

The most beautiful palace I've had the pleasure of visiting

Me, a cat lover, seeing that cats were banned from the palace: "Well I hope you like rats."

"The King Was a Baller." My New Favorite Way of Describing Historical Figures. XD

Thank you, great video! I would love to see a video on one during the mid evil period!

Wow I like how the music fades in and out. You don’t always hear it and think about it usually you just accept it.

I'd just watch every video with this guy's narration

Cool video, how about you do another french video in the future about the Poisons Affair.

The amount of misinformation in this video is almost painful. The idea that courtiers were relieving themselves all over the place is just absurd and has been disproven so many times. Not only were there chamber pots, there were also precursors to the bidet, which allowed one to wash after you were done with your business. There was also bourdeloue available for women to use, which they did frequently due to their wide pannier making it easy to conceal. Did some guys whip it out and pee outside? Well duh, because literally all guys do that. Were people just shitting in corners of the most luxurious palace in Europe at the time? Absolutely not. Also, the lever/coucher weren't jobs the king and queen demanded the nobles perform. Louis XIV decided to strip a lot of practical power away from the higher ranking nobles, and in order to appease them after his move to Versailles (the middle of nowhere is a hard place to run a country from), he came up with the concept of lever/coucher. The idea was that if they had such direct, personal access to the king, he couldn't forget them. Most monarchs found this extremely intrusive and hated it, but it was what was expected, and an easy way to keep a lot of powerful people pacified.

Woah that was something wild. I would want to go to the party but I'm not sure I would wanted to be a courtier nor live in that cold house. Thanks 👍

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