Lol. What were you expecting, lots of orgies, sex and debauchery then, bet you were well disappointed when you saw it was about the lack of their personal hygiene? :D :D :D :D
@grass flowerz Wana see HOW clean civilized and super-hygenic YOUR people are by comparison? ua-cam.com/video/YQjec7Pohgo/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/M5__rWswzbo/v-deo.html
Your saying this reminds me of a famous Japanese Horror movie in which the actress ghost craws right out of the TV screen. Ew, that stinky smell is just vaporing straight up into the air through my phone🤢😷😂
Bruh, you high too? I thought about that phrase for a while...like future people will think our cleansing practices are shitty too. I wonder. 🤔🤔🤔 ...like the 3 seashells in that one movie. 🤣🤣🤣
Karen Chastain, it kind of did, how many royals are around today, nobody wants to procreate with that and probably why they were incestuous because nobody else was that grotesque. They try and make it as if nobody was worthy and to keep the bloodline pure, but it’s because they were so disgusting, they had no other choice.
This was a really interesting part of history to learn about. I can’t imagine living an entire year of my life having only one bath, that’s just disgusting 🤢. I’m so grateful for indoor plumbing, soap, clean water and just the entire healthier way of life we all can enjoy now.
My family had no indoor plumbing-water was from a well, heated on a wood stove, and a bath was in a metal tub, but what a job! We did not bathe often, Generations of healthy farmers lived this way, also the water was shared among the children...for us it was fun.
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@Mrs Neanderthug Wana see HOW clean civilized and super-hygenic YOUR people REALLY are by comparison? ua-cam.com/video/YQjec7Pohgo/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/M5__rWswzbo/v-deo.html
Same here I guess my mind is in the gutter lmao. I can't imagine being in those times, then again I would be in the history known for being the well dressed smelling hygienic women of the times. JK
In 1500's, a French messenger or ambassador, I can't remember very well, came to the capital city of The Ottoman Empire, Istanbul. He was shown to the Turkish Hamam to wash off after his long journey. Apparently after he bathed he said that he felt freshened and he thought people should do this once a year. The baths were normally used almost every day. The Ottoman dude must be like wtf??
When the Japanese first met the europeans they were appalled even thier enemies the koreans and the Chinese bathed daily this why they called them barbarians in china the term was stinky devils some still do on the sly lol
+Davey Houston "Hehehe, Europeans stink because we all know they didn't bathe while even the most primitive people bathed" Yeah, I love normie knowledge of history. Yes, Europeans bathed. They bathed in the Middle Ages, ffs. Even the Russians bathed using saunas.
The Red Sterling Mc'Bae Painters aren't paid to make them look like anything other than flattering. Probably like old age photoshop. Could be that they looked all gross and inbred in reality
I am an artist, so I am fully aware of the "artistic liberties" XD And hey, at least the paintings and the framing made for some great decor. Though I am sure there were beautiful people then. I like the palace's splendor, the items, paintings, makeup, perfumes, wigs, and clothes. That's the gorgeousness I was speaking of. However, in all that splendor. everything stinks. Bittersweet. If I stayed at the palace, I'd stay in that bathtub and use it as intended.
Well, at least they hid their imperfections with fabulous makeup, false teeth, wigs, etc. All of the gorgeous royal splendor might make up for it..... it you breathe through your mouth. :D
I have visited Versailles and I remember that they told us how they used to throw their business out of the windows and more disgusting things. Honestly, if you think about the sewerage system the ancient Greeks,and later their Byzantine empire, had hundreds and thousands years before Versailles, you’d think that this was unacceptable for a palace that magnificent.
How could they have the ability to build such a masterpiece as the palace, and not be able to work out toilets for the most basic of bodily functions? Boggles the mind.
Me too. People are so scared to offend in the modern era. I used to think I hated history, until the internet came around and I could get the whole unfiltered picture from international journalists. There is nothing worse that being forced to memorize 1000 dates and names of "important historical figures" without any context or information to even make them seem human. The only thing I remember from my AP Euro book is the image of Louis XIV in his red high heels. I knew there had to be a good story there!
Basically they didn't believe in bathing, they threw chamber pots out the windows and women had to give the illusion of cleanliness all the time with lead makeup and white linens for everyone. You might be able to find another documentary on the subject with captions.
Ditto, I'm deaf as well....and I saw your comment and skipped ahead to find it not captioning anymore. Thank you, now I won't feel as disappointed in 5 mins into the clip.
The grossest thing described in this was the use of wigs. She said their hair was already very very greasy and oily and then throw some powder on it and cover it with a big heavy wig that made their heads sweat even more and were "infested with parasites" 😓
my water pipes had an under ground leak....i was without running water for two days....i sponge bathed but didn't wash my hair......i was going NUTS with unwashed hair for 2 DAYS..........wth? never washing your hair? bugs, sweat, grease, powder, dandruff, wigs.............?
i think in those periods where aristocracy wore wigs excessively they wore their natural hair very short. does not take away from the filth that much, though.
@@mrsx7944 nah its cos she put led on her face but the led made her face look weird so to cover it up she put more led on it and so on. i feel bad for women back then, led in everything for them
@@lemoncreme847 actually, she caught smallpox, wich left scars on her face and body, then she started wearing makeup, to hide them, but it only made it worse, and she put more and more layers, and that destroyed her life
So very, very grateful for indoor plumbing and cheap soap- not to mention modern medical science. I love learning about history, but wouldn't trade places even with the richest man of any previous era.
I fully agree! On Finnish tv an author of historical novels, Ms Kaari Utrio, was asked in which epoch she would like to have lived! Without hesitation she replied, "Today"! The host wanted to know why she didn't want to live in the times of beautiful maidens and handsome knights. She replied that she had only to think of two things: toothache and appendicitis, that in those times were lethal but that today are trivial problems.
A lot of women where malnourished or just sick, so periods would be usually light or skipped for the majority of lady peasants. You'd think women with heavy and reagular periods would be more desirable for their fertility.
Whenever I watch a hollywood movie depicting this time period and they show a couple in a passionate love scene, I cringe! haha Can you imagine the stench in the room? And their horrible breaths... "Oh mon amour, let's go take a romantic walk along the pissing wall". 😂
Yes. The answer to the problem was so simple. Use some soap and water. Brush your teeth with a rag/brush and some type of powder. I'd have become a nun. No way am I going to sleep with my man that's dirty. Not going to happen. If you were a nun, you were fed, had a place to live and was revered by your community. I'd take a vow of silence to not sleep with stinky, disgusting men.
That would be a great art project: Try to make Versailles stink for one week as it used to, using artificial scents. Place life sized puppets "urinating" and "shitting" in corners and so on. I bet that especially Japanese tourists would not like this at all! But you could hand out small doses of French perfume at the entrance to make the overall smell complete.
No way would the royalty allow anyone including themselves to use their house as a toilet. In fact the many layers of clothing was to protect the expensive furniture. It’s more likely that jealous people later went there to piss and defecate on it when it was a historic landmark. They may have had physician guidance to not bathe too frequently, but for sure they used a place to do just that and probably delayed it more by about a week. I do believe they wanted the whitest skin and wore powders and creams. Their physicians could have been right. After all, they could afford the best.
Jessie Banana I lived in Paris for a year and to this day many French still have poor hygiene. The smell on the Metro sometimes was so putrid it made my eyes water. Many French even today don't bathe as often was they should. This is still a part of French culture. Perfumes are used to "cover" body funk. Unfortunately that mix of funk and perfume is worse than than funk itself.
THE MOORS, (WHEN THEY RULED IN EUROPE 700+YRS), LARGELY INTRODUCED REGULAR BATHING, HYGIENE, TOILETS, RUNNING WATER, HEALTHY CUISINE, FRUITS &SPICES, GOVERNMENT &LAW, ACADEMICS, READING &WRITING &THE SCIENCES, STREET LAMP LIGHTING, GARBAGE COLLECTION, MEDICINE &SURGERY etc...
I wonder if the trend began because of rampant drunkenness and intoxication from old-fashioned drugs because intoxicated people tend to do that outside bars. Versailles was a place where people partied all the time without much responsibility, and the prevalence of love triangles, political sabotage, and other court intrigue would lead to emotional stress that some of them would've reacted to by becoming addicts.
I can't believe that was even tolerated. Imagine going through the hallways or a gallery, only to come across piles of shit and puddles of piss. If I were king, anyone who did that would be seized, beaten and fined, no matter what class they belonged to. Same for those who's pets were not properly house broken.
Louie’s “nursemaid” was definitely his real mother(in terms of actually raising him). I was shocked to hear that he was so attached to her until her passing.
you'd be surprised. Most royal nursemaids/governess would stay with the child until their deaths. They usually became a chaperone once the child was an adult. Elizabeth the first "governess" kat Ashley stayed with her until her death. The children were super attached to these women who raised them and they were treated really well and came from good families.
Sadly the mothers weren’t allowed to raise their children. Even though that awaited child, especially a son was wanted they’d send them off right after birth. No wonder a lot of these royals were dreadful, sad adults. No real love or affection, though a few rare ones did genuinely care for the children and had lasting relationships like Kat Ashley w/Elizabeth I.
even Louis's great-grandson Louis XV affectionately called his nursemaid "Maman", especially since that nursemaid practically saved him from the royal physician Fagon, who bled to death not only Louis XIV, but also his grandson Louis _le Petit Dauphin_ (the son of Louis _le Grand Dauphin_ who had predeceased Louis XIV) & his wife (both the parents of the future Louis XV)
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It's because, despite the blueprints already there, they just were not taken into consideration. Having clean, drinkable water, baths and efficient sewage system in rich people's homes were all things already common for ancient romans(and french as well, since most regions of France were conquered by the Empire), but I imagine they just really REALLY believed in the unhealthy power of water and for some reason didn't build any toilet for servants, so they let them piss all over their precious pavements and wall paper without rules. This is why, to this day, some of us italians may frequently refer to french people as "savages". I know I do lmao 😁
@Robert R Funny how you think we come from communities of corruption. Just because the youth and young men are assholes does not make the community a bad place. We actually have a lot of peace and we have so much untapped potential and talent. It would blow you into a whole other universe. So do not let your ignorance show its face.
it is taught in our schools (asia pacific) that our ancestors (islanders) bathe daily in rivers and deepwells and pools and scrub their bodies with lye and other organic soaps, virgin coconut oil, and use guava tree twigs with bristled ends to brush their teeth. The royals had a more luxurious bath chambers and latrines. These islanders washed their behinds after taking #2, something we still do today thereby the modern bidet toilets. Stinking is a sign of disrespect. So I guess my ancestors were far more advanced when it comes to hygiene.
Same here. Most from Centralmerica shower 1st thing in the morning, even if there's no running water, just a bucket, no warm water. Also, before going on on a meeting, date, etc, so more than 1x per day. I was shocked at how little central Europeans shower. I know people who bathe their kids only on Saturdays.
I don't know about all the French, but Marie Antoinette and her court bathed daily. This is described in detail in many histories. She had to stand in the tub while her clothes were examined carefully one by one. When her family was captured while trying to escape and brought back to Paris, the first thing she did was call for a bath.
The tooth operator ripped off the entire upper palate. Of everything I watched/heard in this video, this is the one that haunts me most. That tooth doctor must not have made it alive.
Lexi Grimbrooke All an illusion created by the artist. 😉 I saw in another documentary that portrait painters during those times would paint the royals as "politely as possible". Remember...the majority of the royals were SEVERELY inbred to "preserve their royal bloodline." Some of them had facial abnormalities, & disfigurements. To avoid upsetting the royals or bruising their ego...the painters would drastically minimize the appearance of any marks, scars, or disproportionate features in his his paintings.
Lexi Grimbrooke no different than women transforming their faces with makeup today. Or even going as far as plastic surgery to permanently change the natural look of their face or bodies.
Benjamin Franklin was a large dude, in his older years, at least, if you go by the portraits. Several of those early American patriots were large men. They met in upstairs rooms to discuss strategies, in a time when air conditioning had not yet been invented. They drank lots of beer. They smoked tobacco in briar pipes. Needless to say, it must've gotten mighty stinky in those strategic planning sessions... Even in 1812, when the Madison family fled the white house, there was no air conditioning. Even in 1864, during the civil war, no air conditioning. Even in the 1870s, when the coward George Custer was riding around all over the west, murdering innocent women and children, still no air conditioning...
@@CrazyBear65 That's a fair statement. But they were also geographically in cold sections of the US, no? You can do without somethings if you have no choice though. Like microwaves, cell phones, etc. The white wigs is what I don't get but I guess that was trendy back then.
Sean McGuire, For the life of me, I can’t wrap my mind around how someone becomes noseblind to SHIT AND years upon years, lifetimes of it. These people were completely trash, nobody can withstand certain stenches, that of death and crap, unless they are dead and shitty individuals.
I visited versai I actually got lost there spent whole afternoon till I found my group. They didn’t even know I was missing until the tour was over 4 hours later lol
they didn't build that place they inherited it from the Tartarians. who were giants. take a look at the doorways, the mirrors where no normal human could see themselves.... that giant key....
@@taliesinhalliday medieval Europe too, in 13th century Paris there were over 20 public bath houses. It was during the renaissance when hygiene declined.
I've come across quite a many stories describing the "cleanliness" of the European aristocratic society in particular during the 16/17/18th centuries but never knew the extent of the same. Quite an informative documentary.
Maybe I have a dirty mind BUT my first thought was... with ALL THE SEX these people were having .. basically no one wash their butt?.. OMG!!! And this is why you should never judge a book by its cover.
@@afroatheist-isnowafroantit6154 Knew a lady who was from Trinidad and her and her husband moved to Paris where they experienced a great deal of racism from the Parisians especially in crowded areas in public. She said they’d pull away from them in a crowd as though they smelled bad or something. Then added “the reason the French are so famous for their perfumes is due to their bathing habits. Nothing smells as bad as perfume poured over a dirty body”. And this was in the late-80’s
From my understanding, Marie-Antoinette was one of the first to institute regular full immersion bathing etiquette. She would add luxurious items to her bath - lily bulbs, almonds, lemons and oranges, flowers, and so on. It was another notch against her in some circles of the royal court.
I'm referring to Marie-Antoinette's influence on the French court, which she brought with her from Austria. But as an aside, Africans - I assume you mean African blacks when you say blacks - were not the only civilization that bathed; the Ancient Romans were notoriously obsessed with bathing. So too were the Indians, or so I've read.
Holy crap that story @ 32:50 about Louis XIV and his upper palate being ripped out!!!! I have never appreciated modern dentistry so much after hearing that story!
@@joliearanda6481 why? Lol. He literally tried to rip his tooth out to hard and took a big chunk of his upper roof of his mouth with it and it never healed and was always infected
Imagine travelling back in time bringing with you soaps, shampoos and various toiletries from today, introducing them to the monarchs as well as the habit of daily showering.
Not that they did, but, I can't imagine not at least rinsing after their periods or occasionally before or after sex w whatever the king used to wash his hands & shave w/. I can't recall the name, just that it was mostly alcohol. Otherwise, excluding the normal stinky smell, the stinky rash that develops in damp skin folds would occur & be painful.
Odd how Europe was so backwards when it came to to hygienes compare to other "less developed" societies. The aztecs and the Mayans had excellent hygiene
@@m1sh474 No...I'm just saying ALL cultures have their faults.....Cultures are VASTLY different the world over and they ALL have massive faults of some sort.
I can barely stand skipping a day or two of showering.. I don't know how they managed to go years without bathing! Maybe perfumes covered the stench a bit but they probably felt so gross and uncomfortable!
Imagine being an African slave, used to cleanliness, held captive by people who didn't understand what that was. The recently captured must have thought they were monsters on so many levels.
@Mrs Neanderthug The Moors still wiped themselves with their left hand when no sponge or shit rag was available. Let's face it, no culture had the luxury to have what we have today with our mass production and technologies of our modern sewer systems; septic tanks, city sewer systems, water treatment plants, water works using wells and/or water surface treating for making potable water. Theory of germs and chemistry was not yet established. Even through parts of the early 1800's many people abide by the now completely wrong theory of the humors and chemistry was still in the realm of magic of wizards with the mystical name alchemy. A pharmacy had the Latin origin meaning storehouse/warehouse name apothecary with many other languages still using the term such as Germanic and Slavic languages still having that root term.
@Mrs Neanderthug The Moors were the Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, and Malta during the Middle Ages. The Moors initially were the indigenous Maghrebine Berbers. The name was later also applied to Arabs. Moors are not a distinct or self-defined people, and the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica observed that "The term 'Moors' has no real ethnological value." Europeans of the Middle Ages and the early modern period variously applied the name to Arabs, North African Berbers, and Muslim Europeans. So they were not blacks...
YES The past has a Lot of amazing high quality items. The people who Made These Things payed Attention to detail, know with Mass production our products lost their Soul. I would Love to travel Back in time to shop!!!!!
The reason people were married in the spring was because it was safe to bathe you wouldn't get sick like in the winter. Also the flowers were to mask a smell, that's why women carried a bouquet and a man wore a flower. Interesting.
That was so interesting. I’ve been to Versailles. I did see one beautifully painted bath tub. Loved seeing much of the interior spaces again in this video. Thank so much.
@@mrsx7944It is bigger than it looks on screen. Hard to imagine until you are there and it is very easy to get lost especially on the gardens that wrap around like a circle!
One's "natural smell" has played an important role since we've evolved from apts i.e. since there was no language during that time the only way apts knew who their mates were was thru his/her natural smell, bc body hair traps natural smells in so their mates recognized them immed. And since everyone's "natural smell" is different they knew for sure he/she was the right one. We've used our sense of smell to identify our mates for millions and still use "natural smells" to identify who's important to us to us to this day. It seems funny now, but millions of yrs ago it was serious stuff. Take care and...plz continue washing. 😊
very interesting! Kind of takes away some of the romantic illusions of this time frame. It's hard to imagine life with these practices in place. I guess everyone just went along with it as the norm.
Great video, really enjoyed watching and learning about this!! Also absolutely disgusting and finding myself more grateful than ever to have modern plumbing. Would pay to see a movie depicting the actualities of the palace.
These acts of behavior came from being made by force to mimic the ways of the Europeans aka French & whatever else they want to call themselves. Unfortunately some still follow these forced upon traditions. Lots of the original ways were beat out of the original man. Therefore the barbaric ways still exist.
@@erinusgardner what you are talking about is Zoonosis and the fleas ticks are know as vectors. But still hygiene is a huge distribution of disease and how it spreads because we eliminate disease from urine, and feces so if someone has a plague and defecated/urinated in the water or wipes his posterior with his bare hand then makes food for others, touches others it most certainly is that hygiene plays a huge roll still of the quick spread of Plagues may start from said zoonosis, to vector, to humans but it is surely then spread with no plumbing or basic hygiene.
mildadr3a......U must be referring 2the hu-man/caucasians & NOT the original indigenous hue-men, who brought & taught civilization 2the entire planet, directly from our celestial inculcators!!
I worked with people -in another English speaking country- who didn't bathe very often, wore dirty clothes to work and many women didn't comb their hair. Try riding a bus to work in the hot summer smelling others bad body odor and unclean clothing. Not fun!
I was in Versailles in 1998 inside the palace. There was a very unusual odor in the air. I cannot really describe it other than maybe the plaster inside the walls with a bilogical scent. Never smelled anything like it before. As a report of European history of hygiene, I can honestly tell you that my grandmother didn't bathe (born in 1902), didn't bathe her child (my father) and even when I took my father to the doctor and asked the doctor to clarify that bathing in water did not give you a cold, as he had believe this superstition his whole life. I remember as a child my mother brought a big tin tub into the kitchen to bathe me. I do not remember how often. So grateful to live now in a country where commercials teaching people about hygiene were the most useful commercials ever broadcasted to the immigrant masses who didn't bathe. Thank God today almost everyone bathes or showers and we don't need to douse ourselves in heavy perfume. The soap scent is sufficient and refreshing. Small miracles mean a lot!
My Mother was born in 1925 and she was a very strange bird, If we went to the beach she never went into the Ocean, she did not like swimming or anything to do with water, I never saw her ever drink a glass of water and She must have bathed while we were at school because she just did not like water.
The cleanest people are often the one's you wouldn't expect. Some of the dirtiest are considered more middle/upper class even today. Can't tell you how many wyt people I know who don't bathe regularly or use anything more than a bar of soap to rub around. We were taught "dirt doesn't fall off, gotta scrub it off" with hot soapy water.
I bet if you lived in Versailles you wouldn't even notice the stench. Just like how smokers never ever smell the cigarettes in their abode or their clothes. My grandmother used to say "Your own dirt won't kill you". Amen to that!
Read about what happened to Women who had no provider during that period. That was called love and served a double purpose of giving that woman a home for life.
I think you all missed it. Watch the video again. She was his wet nurse. Royalty did not breast feed their infants. That woman not only was what we think of as a nanny, she breast fed him and raised him. She was more his mother than his birth mother.
@@truthbetold3550 They had all those huge, gorgeous fountains at Versailles. I guess since they thought water made you sick (and it probably did if you drank it then) they wouldn't, but we'd be jumping in there after two days when we couldn't stand ourselves anymore. The smell must have been awful under all those beautiful clothes.
I can’t imagine living in a time when human beings conjured up such grandeur. The expansiveness of their imaginations and the skills of the artisans who created these magnificent palaces, cathedrals, castles throughout Europe is breathtaking. The lack of imagination in modern architecture is depressing.
Slavery , we don’t have slavery and resources and population is humongous now, people are alive for a longer period As an artist even if I want to, government has better priorities over commissioning a literal palace
Wow they really literally meant dirty secrets, didn’t see that coming
Lol. What were you expecting, lots of orgies, sex and debauchery then, bet you were well disappointed when you saw it was about the lack of their personal hygiene? :D :D :D :D
@@kimgrattage2395 that's EXACTLY what I thought it was going to be
For real!! I was like 😳
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One of my history profs once told us that if we ever traveled back in time, the first thing we would notice is the smell.
Ew
@@ReenyNY yeah, that was my reaction too lol
I've heard that too...besides body odor the horses shat everywhere in the streets and people didn't clean it up.
Just traveling to another country u can smell a different odor from what u are use to in your own. (Not bad or not good, but different)
When they did bath which was rare. The whole family would bath in the same water. The father then the mother right on down to the youngest child.
"It was appearance that counted, what you saw, not the truth".
Sounds like Instagram.
Feather Black - Very good observation!
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Humanity never really changes.
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@Feather Black No, it sounds like America.
I would’ve hated being a servant having to clean up that nastiness 🤮
True
Eat it!!! Manger manger manger!
Me too i would have despised it
And did they ever brush their teeth?
@@chiklachikla7641 Would anybody have enjoyed it?
One of the most revealing historical documentaries ever made. We usually hear about the art, the wars, and love stories.
@grass flowerz Wana see HOW clean civilized and super-hygenic YOUR people are by comparison? ua-cam.com/video/YQjec7Pohgo/v-deo.html
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@@afrobane12 damn, everywhere I go
No, usually we hear about how dirty and bad all western history is.
Indeed. Thats why i was fascinated back then, until now..
It's very interesting
How the hell did I get here and why did I watch the whole thing?!?!
Rinieri lol I’m asking myself the same thing !!!!!
Halfway thru and wondering same.
Me too
The power of knowledge rape people through their eyes to the brain. ;)
Lolol!!!! 🤣💜
I can smell this documentary.
Yes good one!!!!! Watching why nose up the whole time
me too
Your saying this reminds me of a famous Japanese Horror movie in which the actress ghost craws right out of the TV screen. Ew, that stinky smell is just vaporing straight up into the air through my phone🤢😷😂
Yuck and I just ate and I'm getting sick lol hearing this is disgusting
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This is where the saying "stinking rich"came from 🤪
They were seriously filthy rich lol
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Wow now i understand why this saying came along
No, it came from the rich dead, who were buried in the church.
That is astounding.
This is why France is the world leader in Perfumes.
Kelissa - 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Exactly!
Kelissa- that is exactly correct!
Kelissa oh my 😂😂😂
Kelissa ha ha:)
“Each Era is convinced that they’re clean”
Me: ...but right now we are clean...right...?
Bruh, you high too? I thought about that phrase for a while...like future people will think our cleansing practices are shitty too. I wonder. 🤔🤔🤔
...like the 3 seashells in that one movie. 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah yeah same thought LMAO!
I'd you are only using toilet paper on the loo and not water, then no, u r not clean.
How many women I see don't wash their hands after they go to the bathroom is gross.
These days I saw a survey that said MANY Americans wear the same underwear for days at a time. I was like WHAAATT
This is why French perfumes are so well made lol 😂
so STRONG AND PUNGENT.. STINKY lol
And many people had syphillis.....not a great place to hang out
@@sirisgoddess lol love your comment!!!! Filth & filthyness lol!!!! I'm clean now in both senses of the word & high life not poo fumes lol!!!! ;)
Kelly Robinson hhhhhh
That strong smell is ambergreese it come from the anal gland of a whale. Truth. Look it up
Imagine how itchy it would be to have several layers of filth on your body.
That skin would be ripe for funguses.
@@oklahomaisok agreed
Why did you think they got the plague?
@@nfspbarrister5681 D:
@@nfspbarrister5681 i thought it came from China through rats on ships
Am I the only one who thought „dirty secrets“ wasn’t about hygiene?
No, at least there's one more, me.
nope not the only one
me
Eugen B. Oh okay I was so confused for the first 5 mins 😂
@@jaysimming2388 I was confused too....lol🤣
I thought this was going to be “spilling the tea” not spilling the pee 😂
Uuuha ha ha 😂😂😂
Skye Kiere same 😂😂😂
lmaooooo
SCREAMING 😂😂
Shut up lol
You would think the smell alone would serve as birth control!
Makes the saying 'for king and Country' have a whole other ring to it 🤣
Karen Chastain, it kind of did, how many royals are around today, nobody wants to procreate with that and probably why they were incestuous because nobody else was that grotesque. They try and make it as if nobody was worthy and to keep the bloodline pure, but it’s because they were so disgusting, they had no other choice.
They all went nose blind.
@@laurellmccann6193 ok but it probably looked 👀 stinky as hell, too! No wonder they got sick to death
That got me to crack up like an egg, lol.
This was a really interesting part of history to learn about. I can’t imagine living an entire year of my life having only one bath, that’s just disgusting 🤢. I’m so grateful for indoor plumbing, soap, clean water and just the entire healthier way of life we all can enjoy now.
Yes, but there are still Third World countries that do not have enough water let alone indoor plumbing.
My family had no indoor plumbing-water was from a well, heated on a wood stove, and a bath was in a metal tub, but what a job! We did not bathe often, Generations of healthy farmers lived this way, also the water was shared among the children...for us it was fun.
Thank the moors !!
@@tessieoshea6904 That doesn't mean you can't at least splash on some water every now and then.
yes i cant imagne
can make beautiful water fountains but cant make proper sewers and toilets🤣
***FYI: The HIGHLY ADVANCED &SPLENDI-FEROUS MOORS BUILT ALL OF THOSE GRANDIOSE, MAGNIFICENT BUILDINGS. Eg: THEY BUILT THE ACADEMIES, AQUEDUCTS, CHURCHES, LIBRARIES, PAVED ROADS, PUBLIC BATHS, SCHOOLS, STREET LIGHTS, THEATRES &UNIVERSITIES, etc...The europeans DID NOT build those fountains, nor ANY stone structures in Europe. THEY DID NOT HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE &SKILLS 2DO SO. &THEY DIDN'T CREATE NOR INVENT ANYTHING; EVERYTHING THEY HAVE WAS TAUGHT BY &/OR STOLEN FROM BLACK &BROWN CULTURES &PEOPLES. INCIDENTALLY: THE PITCH BLACK, NO. AFRICAN MOORS WERE THE MAIN CATALYSTS THAT CONTRIBUTED 2THE European RENAISSANCE, AFTER HAVING RULED THERE 700+YRS. THE ITALIAN POPE ALEXANDER VI, PATRIARCH OF THE DE-BAUCHED, DECADENT &DEPRAVED BORGIA FAMILY; WAS THE POPE WHO GAVE HEAVILY INDEBTED, ROGUE PIRATES &MERCENARIES (LIKE CRISTOFORO COLOMBO), THE "RIGHT" 2EXPEL THE HIGHLY ADVANCED & CIVILISED MOORS FROM Europe. HE ALSO ISSUED 2'KING' FERDINAND &'QUEEN' ISABELLA OF SPAIN, THE FALSE &POSSIBLY FORGED DOCUMENT: "DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY" (BASED ON THE EQUALLY FICTITIOUS &...? "DONATIONS OF CONSTANTINE"), WHICH GAVE THE "Conquistadores" CARTE BLANCHE 2MURDER INDIGENOUS, NATIVE AMER-INDIANS (WHICH WAS LATER APPLIED 2BLACK AFRICANS AS WELL, 2INITIATE THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE), STEAL THEIR LANDS, SEIZE THEIR RESOURCES &SHARE THEM WITH THE CORRUPT, IMMORAL POPE &HIS CRONIES!!! Furthermore, the current images of a caucasian 'Jesus', were actually based on paintings of Pope Alex VI's yngst son: Cesare Borgia (who is suspected 2have murdered his older brother, Rodrigo, out of jealousy). His images were juxtaposed on the ORIGINAL ICONS OF THE EGYPTIAN GOD-MAN/MAN-GOD, HORUS.THEREFORE, "JESUS" WAS, IS &ALWAYS WILL BE A BLACK MAN, WITH LOCKS SIMILAR 2LAMB'S WOOL (AS THE BIBLE SCRIPTURES ACCURATELY DESCRIBES HIM)!! ***Do ur diligent rsrch & study, AS I HAVE!! I CHALLENGE U 2PROVE ME WRONG ON ALL COUNTS, IF U DARE!! LET THE HUNT BEGIN!!!
The irony of it all... 🙄😆
@@ameliavanderveere8708 Educate them❤
@Mrs Neanderthug Wana see HOW clean civilized and super-hygenic YOUR people REALLY are by comparison? ua-cam.com/video/YQjec7Pohgo/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/M5__rWswzbo/v-deo.html
@@ameliavanderveere8708 Blah, blah, blah. And by the way, Jesus was NOT a Blackman! Really!
i clicked on this thinking they were gonna spill some tea :/
SAMEDT
they spilled piss :-O
LOOK OUT BELOW!
it's tea alright... shitty tea
Definitely did only imagine how disgusting the romance was.
I thought it meant dirty secrets as in: Affairs, murder, etc.
Wow.
Edit: Oh, shit!! Where did all these likes come from?! The hell???
Harper Black same
Same here I guess my mind is in the gutter lmao. I can't imagine being in those times, then again I would be in the history known for being the well dressed smelling hygienic women of the times. JK
I think alot of us were thinking that!
I am too.. I thought that my English is bad.. Because I am Indonesian
Click bait got us all lol
Welcome to another episode of: WHERE WILL UA-cam BRING ME TODAY DURING THE PANDEMIC
Can you imagine the bacterial buildup?? Especially after sex? *puke*
imagine his mistress had to go down on him 😅😜😂😂
:'D hahahahaaa dirty bastards
Sweaty Betty
Wonder how many women actually died from UTI’s??
@@nicolekelly7580906 men as well
In 1500's, a French messenger or ambassador, I can't remember very well, came to the capital city of The Ottoman Empire, Istanbul. He was shown to the Turkish Hamam to wash off after his long journey. Apparently after he bathed he said that he felt freshened and he thought people should do this once a year. The baths were normally used almost every day. The Ottoman dude must be like wtf??
lol, I can believe the didn't know of tooth twigs at least.
It's funny because the Franks and the Turks had similar bathing procedures at one point.
The Turks had baths and cleanliness loooong before while everyone else was tossing piss and shit out the windows
When the Japanese first met the europeans they were appalled even thier enemies the koreans and the Chinese bathed daily this why they called them barbarians in china the term was stinky devils some still do on the sly lol
+Davey Houston
"Hehehe, Europeans stink because we all know they didn't bathe while even the most primitive people bathed"
Yeah, I love normie knowledge of history. Yes, Europeans bathed. They bathed in the Middle Ages, ffs. Even the Russians bathed using saunas.
Upside: Everything and everyone looks drop-dead gorgeous.
Downside: Everything and everyone smells like butt.
The Red Sterling Mc'Bae
Painters aren't paid to make them look like anything other than flattering. Probably like old age photoshop. Could be that they looked all gross and inbred in reality
I am an artist, so I am fully aware of the "artistic liberties" XD
And hey, at least the paintings and the framing made for some great decor.
Though I am sure there were beautiful people then. I like the palace's splendor, the items, paintings, makeup, perfumes, wigs, and clothes. That's the gorgeousness I was speaking of.
However, in all that splendor. everything stinks. Bittersweet. If I stayed at the palace, I'd stay in that bathtub and use it as intended.
Well, at least they hid their imperfections with fabulous makeup, false teeth, wigs, etc. All of the gorgeous royal splendor might make up for it..... it you breathe through your mouth. :D
Resting Bitch Face 😆 *exactly*
NoICantGetUTickets lol 😂
I have visited Versailles and I remember that they told us how they used to throw their business out of the windows and more disgusting things. Honestly, if you think about the sewerage system the ancient Greeks,and later their Byzantine empire, had hundreds and thousands years before Versailles, you’d think that this was unacceptable for a palace that magnificent.
MY LORD! Thank you soap, bath tubs, hot water, bathrooms, showers, towels, etc. God bless them all.
Right
I read this with Tiny Tim's voice "God bless them all!"
Fr💀💀💀
Lmaoooo thank god soap to be honest and especially deodorant because a lot of people today do not use that shit still 💀
Why thank god for something men made😋
How could they have the ability to build such a masterpiece as the palace, and not be able to work out toilets for the most basic of bodily functions? Boggles the mind.
Because hyginical standards were then very different from today's, they even thought bathing was dangerous for health.
@@eliasvitola8277 *in France and its surroundings not the same standards as other places like most of Asia and Africa for instance
Wow!! That's exactly what I was thinking
They only liked beautiful stuff.Not care about Hygiene
Because they nasty
I visited Versaille years ago ... I learned more from watching your video than from my actual visit.
FairwayJack me too😃
Me too. People are so scared to offend in the modern era. I used to think I hated history, until the internet came around and I could get the whole unfiltered picture from international journalists. There is nothing worse that being forced to memorize 1000 dates and names of "important historical figures" without any context or information to even make them seem human. The only thing I remember from my AP Euro book is the image of Louis XIV in his red high heels. I knew there had to be a good story there!
@@giabarrone7422 This is so true. I have learned so much about history and retained it from UA-cam than my actual history classes.
Me too 😁😂
I'm a deaf man who enjoys history. At first closed captions worked then stopped after like 6 minutes. I'm disappointed :(
Thank you kindly
Captions definitely need to be more prominent. I'm sorry they weren't on here. I use them sometimes when the kids are asleep.
They were nasty af...THE END. ( Trust me , thats an accurate summary)
Basically they didn't believe in bathing, they threw chamber pots out the windows and women had to give the illusion of cleanliness all the time with lead makeup and white linens for everyone.
You might be able to find another documentary on the subject with captions.
Ditto, I'm deaf as well....and I saw your comment and skipped ahead to find it not captioning anymore. Thank you, now I won't feel as disappointed in 5 mins into the clip.
The grossest thing described in this was the use of wigs. She said their hair was already very very greasy and oily and then throw some powder on it and cover it with a big heavy wig that made their heads sweat even more and were "infested with parasites" 😓
my water pipes had an under ground leak....i was without running water for two days....i sponge bathed but didn't wash my hair......i was going NUTS with unwashed hair for 2 DAYS..........wth? never washing your hair? bugs, sweat, grease, powder, dandruff, wigs.............?
i think in those periods where aristocracy wore wigs excessively they wore their natural hair very short. does not take away from the filth that much, though.
Ms.MonicaPyle imagine lices having a feast!
Ms.MonicaPyle lice do not like greasy hair
@@sherriheavner1842 I know. They can't lay eggs on it. I do lice checks in my classroom every once in awhile 😉
The title of the documentary is a lot more literal than I expected..
Now I know why french perfumes are so expensive. The fragance lasts for days and days and days ....
Maria Som they certainly perfected it right?
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And also "some" perfumes are made of whales poo
@@angelsantos7033 I thought ambergris was more like stomach wax
Queen Elizabeth I was considered a cleanliness fanatic because she would bathe once a month "whether she needed it or not."
Eeeeeewwwwww. That's probably why she had horrible skin..
@@mrsx7944 nah its cos she put led on her face but the led made her face look weird so to cover it up she put more led on it and so on. i feel bad for women back then, led in everything for them
@@mrsx7944 no she put on led on her face. They didnt know in that period of time it was poison
@@lemoncreme847 actually, she caught smallpox, wich left scars on her face and body, then she started wearing makeup, to hide them, but it only made it worse, and she put more and more layers, and that destroyed her life
@@mariaclaramajin9906 close enough lol
So very, very grateful for indoor plumbing and cheap soap- not to mention modern medical science. I love learning about history, but wouldn't trade places even with the richest man of any previous era.
John Sinclair The only reason they wouldn’t want to be here is because of the requirements for bathing.
I thank God often for modern conveniences. Most take these splendid things forgranted.
You are a very very intelligent lady.
I fully agree! On Finnish tv an author of historical novels, Ms Kaari Utrio, was asked in which epoch she would like to have lived! Without hesitation she replied, "Today"! The host wanted to know why she didn't want to live in the times of beautiful maidens and handsome knights. She replied that she had only to think of two things: toothache and appendicitis, that in those times were lethal but that today are trivial problems.
Abby D. They are now all dead 👽😰😱
Imagine having a heavy period or bad diarrhea back then...Eww
A lot of women where malnourished or just sick, so periods would be usually light or skipped for the majority of lady peasants. You'd think women with heavy and reagular periods would be more desirable for their fertility.
Hahahha
@ashamed2bewhite. And who put yo ass in shackles lol
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I am vomiting right now.. poor people..🤢🤢🤢
Whenever I watch a hollywood movie depicting this time period and they show a couple in a passionate love scene, I cringe! haha Can you imagine the stench in the room? And their horrible breaths... "Oh mon amour, let's go take a romantic walk along the pissing wall". 😂
lol 😁😂😂
So romantic. 🤩😍😘😋
ugh! an uncircumcised man that never washed anywhere , surprised it didn't just fall off from the funk. Who would want to mate with that, lol
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@@tablet2016 I literally LOLed and I really don't know how to explain why. 🤣😆🤣 People heard me.
It's so bizzare to know that they spend a fortune to hide their bad odour while water is just free and soaps cost a very less amount.
Yes. The answer to the problem was so simple. Use some soap and water. Brush your teeth with a rag/brush and some type of powder. I'd have become a nun. No way am I going to sleep with my man that's dirty. Not going to happen. If you were a nun, you were fed, had a place to live and was revered by your community. I'd take a vow of silence to not sleep with stinky, disgusting men.
Clean water wasn’t cheap nor available then. U can’t judge the past with your current prejudices
@@annacostello5181 lakes and rivers would be better than nothing
@@aspenenglish4976 You're not supposed to "sleep" with "men" anyway.
@@ChocolateMilk.. true. I was trying to be kid friendly.
This really alters my view of Versailles. It's hard to image such a beautiful place spoiled by poop and piss everywhere.
That would be a great art project: Try to make Versailles stink for one week as it used to, using artificial scents. Place life sized puppets "urinating" and "shitting" in corners and so on. I bet that especially Japanese tourists would not like this at all! But you could hand out small doses of French perfume at the entrance to make the overall smell complete.
If all of this is true come on
No way would the royalty allow anyone including themselves to use their house as a toilet. In fact the many layers of clothing was to protect the expensive furniture. It’s more likely that jealous people later went there to piss and defecate on it when it was a historic landmark. They may have had physician guidance to not bathe too frequently, but for sure they used a place to do just that and probably delayed it more by about a week. I do believe they wanted the whitest skin and wore powders and creams. Their physicians could have been right. After all, they could afford the best.
@@chineseslaves1971 now this is denial on a different level...were you watching the same documentary we were!!! your true history is poop and piss...
Jessie Banana I lived in Paris for a year and to this day many French still have poor hygiene. The smell on the Metro sometimes was so putrid it made my eyes water. Many French even today don't bathe as often was they should. This is still a part of French culture. Perfumes are used to "cover" body funk. Unfortunately that mix of funk and perfume is worse than than funk itself.
WE ALL THANK WHO EVER INVENTED SOAP & TOOTHPASTE BUT MOST OF ALL WATER. THANK U GOD
Africans
And all the people said ' Amen '.
THE MOORS, (WHEN THEY RULED IN EUROPE 700+YRS), LARGELY INTRODUCED REGULAR BATHING, HYGIENE, TOILETS, RUNNING WATER, HEALTHY CUISINE, FRUITS &SPICES, GOVERNMENT &LAW, ACADEMICS, READING &WRITING &THE SCIENCES, STREET LAMP LIGHTING, GARBAGE COLLECTION, MEDICINE &SURGERY etc...
Cont'd:...THE EGYPTIANS/ETRUSCANS/ETHIOPIANS, (ALL BLACK PEOPLE) TOO, PRIOR 2THE MOORS.
Arabs discovered soap.
People relieving themselves anywhere in the house is just plain weird and disgusting...
Still happens in many countries. China for example.
I wonder if the trend began because of rampant drunkenness and intoxication from old-fashioned drugs because intoxicated people tend to do that outside bars. Versailles was a place where people partied all the time without much responsibility, and the prevalence of love triangles, political sabotage, and other court intrigue would lead to emotional stress that some of them would've reacted to by becoming addicts.
@@erinjay8431 yea, still gross
I can't believe that was even tolerated. Imagine going through the hallways or a gallery, only to come across piles of shit and puddles of piss. If I were king, anyone who did that would be seized, beaten and fined, no matter what class they belonged to. Same for those who's pets were not properly house broken.
I had to rewind and make sure id heard right. Unimaginable.
Louie’s “nursemaid” was definitely his real mother(in terms of actually raising him). I was shocked to hear that he was so attached to her until her passing.
you'd be surprised. Most royal nursemaids/governess would stay with the child until their deaths. They usually became a chaperone once the child was an adult. Elizabeth the first "governess" kat Ashley stayed with her until her death. The children were super attached to these women who raised them and they were treated really well and came from good families.
@@syd1764 I think that’s lovely
They weren’t raised by their actual mothers so these people were their real parents in their minds.
Sadly the mothers weren’t allowed to raise their children. Even though that awaited child, especially a son was wanted they’d send them off right after birth. No wonder a lot of these royals were dreadful, sad adults. No real love or affection, though a few rare ones did genuinely care for the children and had lasting relationships like Kat Ashley w/Elizabeth I.
even Louis's great-grandson Louis XV affectionately called his nursemaid "Maman", especially since that nursemaid practically saved him from the royal physician Fagon, who bled to death not only Louis XIV, but also his grandson Louis _le Petit Dauphin_ (the son of Louis _le Grand Dauphin_ who had predeceased Louis XIV) & his wife (both the parents of the future Louis XV)
Seems odd that people who could create such an architectural and engineering masterpiece would not think of sanitation.
Incidentally, Ru aware of the fact that Europe was named in honor of an Afrikan Female Royalty, named EUROPA?? Also, Scotland was named in honor of an EGYPTIAN Princess named SCOTA, 1of the dghtrs of AKHEN-ATEN!! ** I suggest that U Do ur diligent rsrch &uncover the hidden "Our [TRUE]-STORY", NOT 'HIS- [lying]-story'. Happy Hunting!
It's because, despite the blueprints already there, they just were not taken into consideration.
Having clean, drinkable water, baths and efficient sewage system in rich people's homes were all things already common for ancient romans(and french as well, since most regions of France were conquered by the Empire), but I imagine they just really REALLY believed in the unhealthy power of water and for some reason didn't build any toilet for servants, so they let them piss all over their precious pavements and wall paper without rules.
This is why, to this day, some of us italians may frequently refer to french people as "savages". I know I do lmao 😁
They didn't build nothing all that was built was by blk kings in the dark ages white people had just had come out the cavrs
J F because they did not, that’s a myth. The Moors and Egyptians were the true engineers.
@Robert R Funny how you think we come from communities of corruption. Just because the youth and young men are assholes does not make the community a bad place. We actually have a lot of peace and we have so much untapped potential and talent. It would blow you into a whole other universe. So do not let your ignorance show its face.
it is taught in our schools (asia pacific) that our ancestors (islanders) bathe daily in rivers and deepwells and pools and scrub their bodies with lye and other organic soaps, virgin coconut oil, and use guava tree twigs with bristled ends to brush their teeth. The royals had a more luxurious bath chambers and latrines. These islanders washed their behinds after taking #2, something we still do today thereby the modern bidet toilets. Stinking is a sign of disrespect. So I guess my ancestors were far more advanced when it comes to hygiene.
You said it , lady!
Same here. Most from Centralmerica shower 1st thing in the morning, even if there's no running water, just a bucket, no warm water. Also, before going on on a meeting, date, etc, so more than 1x per day. I was shocked at how little central Europeans shower. I know people who bathe their kids only on Saturdays.
AMEN! it’s amazing that our ancestors were humble compared to what the French had, but were still cleaner than them LOL.
Yessss!!!! I love this comment!!
I don't know about all the French, but Marie Antoinette and her court bathed daily. This is described in detail in many histories. She had to stand in the tub while her clothes were examined carefully one by one. When her family was captured while trying to escape and brought back to Paris, the first thing she did was call for a bath.
I need another bath after watching this.
😆 lol good one
Baths are unhygienic as well.
I wanna live in my tub and shower now.
Im just going to burn myself. nothing cleanses like fire.
😂😂😂😂
The tooth operator ripped off the entire upper palate.
Of everything I watched/heard in this video, this is the one that haunts me most. That tooth doctor must not have made it alive.
He probably got executed after that mishap.
They all looked absolutely gorgeous in their paintings, but I cannot be sure they would look quite as stunning in person.
Lexi Grimbrooke All an illusion created by the artist. 😉 I saw in another documentary that portrait painters during those times would paint the royals as "politely as possible". Remember...the majority of the royals were SEVERELY inbred to "preserve their royal bloodline." Some of them had facial abnormalities, & disfigurements. To avoid upsetting the royals or bruising their ego...the painters would drastically minimize the appearance of any marks, scars, or disproportionate features in his his paintings.
What documentary was this luv? I would love to see it
Lexi Grimbrooke just look at as a old school selfie filter. They painted how they want to look :) the Egyptian style was all about that.
Lexi Grimbrooke no different than women transforming their faces with makeup today. Or even going as far as plastic surgery to permanently change the natural look of their face or bodies.
queenjazz, true & now the "painters" use Photoshop too. (men also have surgery, it's not only women).
There goes my romantic image of Versailles .... 😂
I knew it smelled bad back then way before I found this
OMG......you too?. My Starrrzzzzz
I KNO RIGHT?!!
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Same😒
Came for the tea stayed for the terrible hygiene
But Why though lol same
me too
Stan ollie
Same! No regrets but I am forever changed 😂
@grass flowerz po
This documentary actually makes you want to take a bath and do a laundry.
Native Americans bathed. They thought Europeans were very unclean.
and they were right lmao
And they were! As they brought diseases to both the natives Americans and Africa!!!! Nasty foul people!
@@ShayPeee still trying to figure out why africans and native americans hadn't invented the wheel yet while Europeans were experiencing the plague.
Even in the days of King Ramsey or King Nefertiti they bathe regularly. Even Moses and Jesus bathe.
@Mrs Neanderthug don't let your jealousy show too much.
I guess when everyone smells like that , you don't really notice. But if they say you smelled back then, you really had a problem.
Ya but what about itchy? Doesn't stank and itching go together?
Benjamin Franklin was a large dude, in his older years, at least, if you go by the portraits. Several of those early American patriots were large men. They met in upstairs rooms to discuss strategies, in a time when air conditioning had not yet been invented. They drank lots of beer. They smoked tobacco in briar pipes. Needless to say, it must've gotten mighty stinky in those strategic planning sessions... Even in 1812, when the Madison family fled the white house, there was no air conditioning. Even in 1864, during the civil war, no air conditioning. Even in the 1870s, when the coward George Custer was riding around all over the west, murdering innocent women and children, still no air conditioning...
@@CrazyBear65 That's a fair statement. But they were also geographically in cold sections of the US, no? You can do without somethings if you have no choice though. Like microwaves, cell phones, etc. The white wigs is what I don't get but I guess that was trendy back then.
Sean McGuire, For the life of me, I can’t wrap my mind around how someone becomes noseblind to SHIT AND years upon years, lifetimes of it. These people were completely trash, nobody can withstand certain stenches, that of death and crap, unless they are dead and shitty individuals.
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Wine, dry washing, changing clothes ten times a day....ANYTHING but bathing, yes?
Haha😅🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Nazmun Nahar evil water òmó
And shit in a corner 😂
What is dry washing
@@mayaj291 The really ghetto version of a whores bath!
I visited versai I actually got lost there spent whole afternoon till I found my group. They didn’t even know I was missing until the tour was over 4 hours later lol
It is very easy to get lost there especially the gardens!
Pathetic they spent so much on luxury and architecture, but lacked basic sanitary etiquettes, should have learnt something my ancestors....
they didn't build that place they inherited it from the Tartarians. who were giants. take a look at the doorways, the mirrors where no normal human could see themselves.... that giant key....
Methinks you don't like your in law... For obvious reasons. XD
@tinasprincess It's an historical fact that Versailles was built around an old hunting lodge or chateaux. This was done over the years by Louis XIV.
I dont understand.......Even Egypt during the Pharaoh's time had bathrooms
They even shaved off their hair thinking that hair holds dirt and bacteria and then wears wigs instead.
@@taliesinhalliday medieval Europe too, in 13th century Paris there were over 20 public bath houses. It was during the renaissance when hygiene declined.
@@herodotus945 but why during the renaissance , the hygiene has been declined ?? cant get ..
@@Venusus17 they brought syphilis from America and started to fear that it spreads in bath houses.
@@herodotus945 aw thanks for answer !
Imagine being in Church and suddenly hearing the sound of someone pissing, I would die of laughter!!
Ale30 or pooping!😂😂😂
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And also how it smelled in the church while everyone were gathered in there worse...on a very hot summer day 🤮
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Absolute nightmare
I've come across quite a many stories describing the "cleanliness" of the European aristocratic society in particular during the 16/17/18th centuries but never knew the extent of the same. Quite an informative documentary.
So this is where the saying "Smells like a French whore." comes from. Too much perfumes and not enough washing. Thanks for the likes!
😂😂😂😂damn that's cold
Good one 😂
Moulin rouge
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...And suddenly, Pepé Le Pew makes a whole lot more sense. ಠ~ಠ
Brandy McNamee
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lol
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Brandy McNamee this was European standard so everyone in Europe stank in those days including the mcnamee
Brandy McNamee lol
Maybe I have a dirty mind BUT my first thought was... with ALL THE SEX these people were having .. basically no one wash their butt?..
OMG!!! And this is why you should never judge a book by its cover.
Ewww lmao 😂
Maybe they eventually do after peeing or pooping, still it’s pretty gross 😖
@@AuntiePortia baaahaaaa
I guess I must have a dirty mind too😳, because that was LITERALLY the same thought that I had 😂👍🏽.
Can you imagine all those clothes you have to take off for a spur of the moment quicky.
I remember the term,"Smelling like a French ho," from a friend.....😂 Cracked me up.....
If you're a blk atheist that means you've been listening to white ppl too much
Half a bottle of cheap perfume poured over a dirty body….
@@mrsx7944 It means, I'm smart. I look to science.
@@oklahomaisok It's a euphemism, now. But, yes. The French Women.
@@afroatheist-isnowafroantit6154 Knew a lady who was from Trinidad and her and her husband moved to Paris where they experienced a great deal of racism from the Parisians especially in crowded areas in public. She said they’d pull away from them in a crowd as though they smelled bad or something. Then added “the reason the French are so famous for their perfumes is due to their bathing habits. Nothing smells as bad as perfume poured over a dirty body”. And this was in the late-80’s
From my understanding, Marie-Antoinette was one of the first to institute regular full immersion bathing etiquette. She would add luxurious items to her bath - lily bulbs, almonds, lemons and oranges, flowers, and so on. It was another notch against her in some circles of the royal court.
Richie Beck She did many firsts in France that many French hated.
I'm referring to Marie-Antoinette's influence on the French court, which she brought with her from Austria. But as an aside, Africans - I assume you mean African blacks when you say blacks - were not the only civilization that bathed; the Ancient Romans were notoriously obsessed with bathing. So too were the Indians, or so I've read.
OH! I'm sorry! I didn't even realize that. Blonde moment. I deleted my comment.
Richie Beck it takes a woman 😛
She was also from Austria, not France, her countries customs not the French.
Holy crap that story @ 32:50 about Louis XIV and his upper palate being ripped out!!!! I have never appreciated modern dentistry so much after hearing that story!
I said this on Behind Mansion Walls! 😆😆😝
@jonwhatever- looks like there is nothing you appreciate! What a loser!
Supposedly a Russian ambassador to France said Louis XIV "stunk like a wild animal." I can believe it!!
@Glorfinniel it's not true , the first ambassador Russia sent to France was at the time Louis XV was king , not louis XIV . ..
@@liliks14 Then it was Louis XV. Apparently stinking ran in the family.
Russians did have indoor plumbing.
Paris still smells like a wild animal
@@ashg7219 it's better to be a drunken Barbarians than a smelly animal...
1.King louie be like "I'm the s**t".
2.u can get pink eye real fast back then.
3.our king is coming. I can smell him coming.
😂😂😂
Poor sun king,he would have us executed
@@deepad4546 i probably would've volunteered for an execution.
@@bigbadbootydaddyjz6895 lol,I agree .
Just finished watching Versailles .
@@deepad4546 Me too
I can't believe everyone is focusing on how the king smelled and not that his dentist ripped out part of his mouth
I literally gagged at that part 😱 thank god for modern competent dentistry.
Why
@@joliearanda6481 why? Lol. He literally tried to rip his tooth out to hard and took a big chunk of his upper roof of his mouth with it and it never healed and was always infected
Oh my yes. Can you imagine that scene? I didn’t even know it was possible to do that. Must have been horrific.
Can you imagine the smell of rot that would emit from his mouth?
Can you imagine meeting the Sun King during “the rising of the king” and being like, “Damn Louis, you nasty!”
Dear God. 😞😂😂
Usa is called dirty bottoms now.by europeans.
LMFAOO
Meanwhile his wife just causally hikes her dress and pees all over the floor!!
I have to admit. I thought this documentary would be about romantic affairs and flirtatious games of court....not Pepe le pew. Good one, you got me.
Pepe le what? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@MiezzMiezz The hopeless romantic skunk...
@@jazzycoles7146 lol
@@afroatheist-isnowafroantit6154 Facts
I thought the same and still ended up watching the whole thing!! ugh!
Imagine travelling back in time bringing with you soaps, shampoos and various toiletries from today, introducing them to the monarchs as well as the habit of daily showering.
Who else was making a face through this whole video?
me lol
I realized that I was grimacing when I read this comment. 😂 Ugh!!
Me disgusting
Me.
@z DO NOT CUSS ON A PUBLIC FORUM!!!!! CONVERT TO THE TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC FAITH!!!!
IVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR THE LONGEST!!!!
IMAGINE GETTING YOUR PERIOD!!!! OR AFTER GIVING BIRTH!!!!🤢🤢🤢🤢
Ewwww ... it's bad enough as it is. I would be mortified if I had to live back then and trying to keep clean during all of that.
Not that they did, but, I can't imagine not at least rinsing after their periods or occasionally before or after sex w whatever the king used to wash his hands & shave w/. I can't recall the name, just that it was mostly alcohol. Otherwise, excluding the normal stinky smell, the stinky rash that develops in damp skin folds would occur & be painful.
@@triciasullivan3432 Amen to that.
My vagina just shriveled up and died. Thank you 😐
wow stop being so ignorant.. they had chamber maids to sponge them off.
Odd how Europe was so backwards when it came to to hygienes compare to other "less developed" societies. The aztecs and the Mayans had excellent hygiene
Love Me Please!!! The french have always had a reputation as being unclean
I agree but those examples are wrong. Aztecs and Mayans were highly developed societies.
@@bluesageful are you really comparing what colonizers did, damage so great that still affects societies in ex-colonies with ancient culture? Jfc.
@@m1sh474 No...I'm just saying ALL cultures have their faults.....Cultures are VASTLY different the world over and they ALL have massive faults of some sort.
@@bluesageful Yet your comment has nothing to do with my original comment.
This was a really well made video. Thank you.
Fun fact; many Swiss people to this day refer to a dry wash as 'French Shower'.
And us Americans call it "A whores bath" 😆
Some call it a Russian bath. In Spanish btw. When I was younger, I thought they did this in Russia because it was very cold over there 😅
Whats a dry wash?
In my country we call it a french bath when people just put perfume on to mask smells instead of bathing, lol.
April B It’s not a Russian bath in Spanish is un baño polaco
Fun fact: the miniature chamber pots that women carried them are still often confused with gravy boats, and are often displayed in museums as them!
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That explains the shapes of some "gravy boats".
@@TheLoveweaver haha yup!!
@@TotosTales what do you mean?
Ew 😂🤣
I can barely stand skipping a day or two of showering.. I don't know how they managed to go years without bathing! Maybe perfumes covered the stench a bit but they probably felt so gross and uncomfortable!
And dirty wigs
It’s what you get used to
I agree. Imagine going without shaving as well so your legs and arm pits were just as hairy as a man's. 🤢
Imagine being an African slave, used to cleanliness, held captive by people who didn't understand what that was. The recently captured must have thought they were monsters on so many levels.
Never thought of that interesting
All that money and no bathrooms.
1 tub at that
@Mrs Neanderthug The Moors still wiped themselves with their left hand when no sponge or shit rag was available.
Let's face it, no culture had the luxury to have what we have today with our mass production and technologies of our modern sewer systems; septic tanks, city sewer systems, water treatment plants, water works using wells and/or water surface treating for making potable water.
Theory of germs and chemistry was not yet established.
Even through parts of the early 1800's many people abide by the now completely wrong theory of the humors and chemistry was still in the realm of magic of wizards with the mystical name alchemy.
A pharmacy had the Latin origin meaning storehouse/warehouse name apothecary with many other languages still using the term such as Germanic and Slavic languages still having that root term.
@Mrs Neanderthug The Moors were the Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, and Malta during the Middle Ages. The Moors initially were the indigenous Maghrebine Berbers. The name was later also applied to Arabs. Moors are not a distinct or self-defined people, and the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica observed that "The term 'Moors' has no real ethnological value." Europeans of the Middle Ages and the early modern period variously applied the name to Arabs, North African Berbers, and Muslim Europeans. So they were not blacks...
The makeup items are so beautiful! A modern-day makeup company needs to recreate some of the items for a collection.
YES The past has a Lot of amazing high quality items. The people who Made These Things payed Attention to detail, know with Mass production our products lost their Soul. I would Love to travel Back in time to shop!!!!!
The Stinky Collection. The Hide Your Pus-filled Pimples Collection. The Hide Your Syphilitic Sores Collection.
There is! The company is called Besame Cosmetics. Modern makeup in vintage styles!
yess arsenic foundation 😍
@@danamuller5016 Makeup products were not high quality back then. They were full of deadly chemicals that would eat away at the skin.
The reason people were married in the spring was because it was safe to bathe you wouldn't get sick like in the winter. Also the flowers were to mask a smell, that's why women carried a bouquet and a man wore a flower. Interesting.
If true, very interesting comment!
YAKKKKKKK
That was so interesting. I’ve been to Versailles. I did see one beautifully painted bath tub. Loved seeing much of the interior spaces again in this video. Thank so much.
I'm jealous. Is it as beautiful as they say?
@@mrsx7944It is bigger than it looks on screen. Hard to imagine until you are there and it is very easy to get lost especially on the gardens that wrap around like a circle!
I just imagine Marie Antoinette arriving to Versailles for the first time smelling those kind of essences.
One's "natural smell" has played an important role since we've evolved from apts i.e. since there was no language during that time the only way apts knew who their mates were was thru his/her natural smell, bc body hair traps natural smells in so their mates recognized them immed. And since everyone's "natural smell" is different they knew for sure he/she was the right one. We've used our sense of smell to identify our mates for millions and still use "natural smells" to identify who's important to us to us to this day. It seems funny now, but millions of yrs ago it was serious stuff. Take care and...plz continue washing. 😊
Man if royalty were this dirty imagine how dirty the peasants were
Nick mag+
Easy to judge when you are living
In modern day washing was a luxury people then could not afford
Then
They said some people used to bathe in the river, so probably the peasants in the countryside at least
were cleaner.
Did u also know that the peasants back then had healthier teeth than the royals? Guess what?
Like today, poor people keep themselves cleaner
No wonder why plagues were rampant
very interesting! Kind of takes away some of the romantic illusions of this time frame. It's hard to imagine life with these practices in place. I guess everyone just went along with it as the norm.
John M: no anaesthetics either. Poor Louis XIV had surgery on an anal fissure with no anaesthesia.
John M no air conditioners... No heat... Much less central a/c units or central heating in the home
Daisy Juice hopefully less dirty and stupid than this lot. But I'm not holding my breath
Yes I just started season 2 on Netflix and I will see it with different eyes. I guess EVERYBODY was nose blind at this point.
I know!!! I have a book on King Louis- I have no idea how he stood it and not only that, but survived it with no nasty infection!
Great video, really enjoyed watching and learning about this!! Also absolutely disgusting and finding myself more grateful than ever to have modern plumbing. Would pay to see a movie depicting the actualities of the palace.
All thanks to Arabs islamic Civilisation
😂😂😂😂 Im reading the comments! Tonight I have my nice shower with lavender shower gel, very refreshing and CLEAN. 👌🚿🛀
Damn Straight, sister! Thank God for showers!
Jessica your cleanliness is sending my mind to the gutter. Lavender......ummmm
I am LITERALLY bathing and then showering tonight! 😂😂
Y’all had Plague because y’all was nasty 🤢
These acts of behavior came from being made by force to mimic the ways of the Europeans aka French & whatever else they want to call themselves. Unfortunately some still follow these forced upon traditions. Lots of the original ways were beat out of the original man. Therefore the barbaric ways still exist.
Monique Green and America has the odd case still of plague rabbies dogs running free could go on but I get hand ache if I did
Nikki Nichols think you find barbaric acts happen in Africa
Yeah, it was filth. Lack of proper hygiene will cause plague to spread.
@@erinusgardner what you are talking about is Zoonosis and the fleas ticks are know as vectors. But still hygiene is a huge distribution of disease and how it spreads because we eliminate disease from urine, and feces so if someone has a plague and defecated/urinated in the water or wipes his posterior with his bare hand then makes food for others, touches others it most certainly is that hygiene plays a huge roll still of the quick spread of Plagues may start from said zoonosis, to vector, to humans but it is surely then spread with no plumbing or basic hygiene.
Wow I will never look at Versailles the same way again.
Sometimes I’m utterly amazed that humans have survived this long at all. 😅
Same.
mildadr3a......U must be referring 2the hu-man/caucasians & NOT the original indigenous hue-men, who brought & taught civilization 2the entire planet, directly from our celestial inculcators!!
The comments are so funny ，better than the story 😂
9:08 pm watching this and reading the comments having me cracking up.
Yeah 😂😂
Completely agree :):)
It’s a wonder anyone survived until 50!
hermioneinc hahaha me I can't survive in a day without taking a bath
so that's why Looney toons had the character Pepe la Pew (skunk).
Sandy Orellana 😂😂😂
Sandy Orellana haha it makes sense
So great!,, historically true
Sandy Orellana tee hee:)
Sandy Orellana mind blown
Such beautiful dresses! That’s all I can see, gorgeous dresses, architecture, furniture! Lovely 💖
There’s people at my school who think they’re living in this time period
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😂
LMFAO 😂
😂🤣😆
I worked with people -in another English speaking country- who didn't bathe very often, wore dirty clothes to work and many women didn't comb their hair. Try riding a bus to work in the hot summer smelling others bad body odor and unclean clothing. Not fun!
I was in Versailles in 1998 inside the palace. There was a very unusual odor in the air. I cannot really describe it other than maybe the plaster inside the walls with a bilogical scent. Never smelled anything like it before. As a report of European history of hygiene, I can honestly tell you that my grandmother didn't bathe (born in 1902), didn't bathe her child (my father) and even when I took my father to the doctor and asked the doctor to clarify that bathing in water did not give you a cold, as he had believe this superstition his whole life. I remember as a child my mother brought a big tin tub into the kitchen to bathe me. I do not remember how often. So grateful to live now in a country where commercials teaching people about hygiene were the most useful commercials ever broadcasted to the immigrant masses who didn't bathe. Thank God today almost everyone bathes or showers and we don't need to douse ourselves in heavy perfume. The soap scent is sufficient and refreshing. Small miracles mean a lot!
My Mother was born in 1925 and she was a very strange bird, If we went to the beach she never went into the Ocean, she did not like swimming or anything to do with water, I never saw her ever drink a glass of water and She must have bathed while we were at school because she just did not like water.
@@lindaweilburg6428 what would she drink in place of water?
@@lindaweilburg6428 wow I didnt know there were such strange humans on this earth
The cleanest people are often the one's you wouldn't expect. Some of the dirtiest are considered more middle/upper class even today. Can't tell you how many wyt people I know who don't bathe regularly or use anything more than a bar of soap to rub around. We were taught "dirt doesn't fall off, gotta scrub it off" with hot soapy water.
I’m sure you couldn’t smell something in 1998, it’s not like century old smells have somehow been retained - it’s downright moronic 😅
I bet if you lived in Versailles you wouldn't even notice the stench. Just like how smokers never ever smell the cigarettes in their abode or their clothes. My grandmother used to say "Your own dirt won't kill you". Amen to that!
I saw a video a couple weeks ago that showed that some of the things burned for fumigation as a protective against plague, actually did work 😳🙌🏽
I've never heard a documentary say "stinky" so much.
i cant stop laughing at this comment who wrote this documentary
SO THE MEN HAD STINKY DICKS
Not that many docos stink this badly
Soooo, a 50 year old man still needed a good morning kiss from his nanny... Ok.
That's so cute the king needs kisses off his nanny lol
Read about what happened to Women who had no provider during that period. That was called love and served a double purpose of giving that woman a home for life.
His Nanny was problably closer to him than his actual parents...
I think you all missed it. Watch the video again. She was his wet nurse. Royalty did not breast feed their infants. That woman not only was what we think of as a nanny, she breast fed him and raised him. She was more his mother than his birth mother.
When you refuse to grow up
It's easier to take a shower then go through all this...
Lol seriously!!!
Correct me me if I'm wrong, but I don't think they had showers in those days. Silly goose!
@@truthbetold3550 yeah showers were not invented until the 1900s-1920s I think and even then were for rich, prior to that it was only bathtubs
@@truthbetold3550 They had all those huge, gorgeous fountains at Versailles. I guess since they thought water made you sick (and it probably did if you drank it then) they wouldn't, but we'd be jumping in there after two days when we couldn't stand ourselves anymore. The smell must have been awful under all those beautiful clothes.
I can’t imagine living in a time when human beings conjured up such grandeur. The expansiveness of their imaginations and the skills of the artisans who created these magnificent palaces, cathedrals, castles throughout Europe is breathtaking. The lack of imagination in modern architecture is depressing.
Slavery , we don’t have slavery and resources and population is humongous now, people are alive for a longer period
As an artist even if I want to, government has better priorities over commissioning a literal palace