Marie Antoinette never said those silly words; "Let them eat cake , if they have no bread!" She was unusually kind to her maids.. Both she and the King marched bravely and quietly to be cruelly executed Robespierre screamed all the way to the Guillotine as he had botched his suicide attempt...
Marie is one of my heroes. She was every bit what I imagine a queen to be when she went to her death. As for the other guy, it doesn't surprise me at all that a coward who used others to do his dirty work would die a coward.
Marie's question wasn't out of disdain for the poor of France, but a symptom of her ignorance, due to the way she had been sheltered all of her life. She was told the people have no bread and she asked, "why don't they eat cake?" (Q'illes mangent du gateau?). It wasn't malicious; it was simple innocence.
@@104thDIVTimberwolf No she didn’t utter any such words. This “version of history”appeared many years after her death, but there is no basis in fact that she ever uttered such words.
@@trollmeistergeneral3467, very likely true. Apocryphal or not, had she said it, it would have been out of ignorance and genuine caring, not the malice that the Paris Commune claimed it was.
A fine monarch, both liberal to his people and the times. He was a devout and pius Roman Catholic and ruled France better than most, indeed far better than his murderers were too. He died a martyrs death and a true historical review of Louis is quickly awed by his faithfulness and desire to help his people. As so often occurs, when a king is turned into a martyred one, he was followed by a blood thirsty regime that lacked humanity or any hope for its people. The terror led the way to disaster and its vicious cruelty knew no bounds.
The Bourbon dynasty was not a popular dynasty by the time of King Louis XVI, so I am not sure if he died a martyrs death in the eyes of the French people.
@@Rodricus-3644 The fact remains...for his time he was most liberal and desired the wellbeing of his people. Uncertain of what the French thought of him or otherwise at the time of his death. Like Charles I in England or the Rissian Tsar he went to his death as a martyr, even if he was hated at the time by some, most martyrs are. The historical fact remains this ..that his reign was far more noble and kindly than the revolution that murdered him.
@@1965Tofik well that is an opinion, shared by many...rejected by equally as many. Ideas on good or bad kingship are not made from a historical perspective but from a moral one that depends upon how and what we expect.
I think the French revolution had everything to do with a small number of men wanting power and nothing to do with famine. The people were simply manipulated into carrying out the will of power-hungry men.
@@y3puGnxg Does it matter if it's a small number of people in the UK or the EU that have all the power? The only ones who should be in control of the UK is the UK not the EU.
@@Ieatpaste23 few people? Lol the king tried to implement democracy by dividing 3 group of representatives, the nobles, the clerics, and the peasants but rather than giving the peasants which was the biggest population in france a bigger voice he decided to give these 3 groups an equal voice. You know what happened next? The nobles collaborated with the clerics to stop the peasants to the point the peasants decided to establish their own representative body.
You know, it seems rather karma played a BIG part in the revolution. Robespierre executed the king, and later down the road, he was executed. So, yea, karma bit him in the butt...HARD.
Actually you should truly check out the facts , the French army and French parliament used the royals as a escape goat . They had plundered insane amounts of money 💰. trying to keep conquered lands abroad!. The French people were totally fooled!.
The same with Charles I, for when The Restoration occurred, Charles II ordered Cromwell to be posthumously executed (12 years after the execution of Charles I) and his head placed on a pike pole outside of Westminster Hall (removed in 1685).
@@fabianwylie8707 And the French people are fooled to this day thinking that they have had any involvement with starting the Revolution when, in fact, they were its victim. But we can understand why when the history books lie about the real instigators and beneficiaries of the Revolution, the same who are leading the whole world to its demise through the globalist organisations of the elite.
I've seen a total of one of my very many bullies receive "Karma." He picked on another boy in a football game, and his fronts were busted. All my other antagonists went on to even more success. What happened to that boy was just an anomaly.
1:20 NOT the most flattering image of Louis XVI, to say the least. The fact that the image is bordered by tricolor ribbons indicates this could be a Revolutionary caricature of him. Tussaud biographer Kate Berridge stated that from 1793 until Marie's death in 1850, there's no record of Louis XVI or Marie Antoinette's heads being part of her exhibit. No mention of either head in the Tussaud wax exhibition catalogs, newspaper articles about the exhibition etc. Both heads first appeared in an 1865 Tussaud exhibit, when her two sons were running the business. The revolutionaries went so far as to burn the items in Louis' cell (furniture, clothes etc). It's unlikely they would've allowed a wax image of the head to be made, since it could be reproduced over and over from its original mould.
People forget that the main reason France was in economic distress was the support of the American Revolution, which could not have been won without the money, troops, supplies and more from France. This had a lot to do with Louie and Marie Antoinettes downfall.
I feel like the king and queen went to their execution with great poise and grace. So much dignity for such an unjust death. They did not deserve it especially the Queen Consort.
Regardless of what the facts are about King Louis and Queen Marie..there is great sadness that lingers inside of me for both of them..every time I look at this period of France's history....I don't know if it's ever mentioned that one factor that led to the French revolution was that France funded the American revolution which severely drained its coffers..leaving France without money to support itself and its people...and what followed was an unfolding that no one anticipated..
Also the French were expecting favorable trade for it's exports to the new USA. Instead trade between Britain and the new USA resumed at a similar level as before. In fact Britain's saved funds as it's navy no loner had to protect these ex colonies from pirates.
There were two more reigning Kings of France. They were Kings Louis XVIII and Charles X. While the son of King Louis XVI never reigned, he is classified as Louis XVII. It was the crazy support of the American revolutionaries that bankrupted France and led to the circumstances that caused the French revolution.
not entirely true. France was in big trouble financially because of Louis XIV's extravagance, war mongering and the massive amount of money he spent on Versailles. He also expelled the Huguenots from France, which was stupid because the huguenots were the skilled labor class. Louis XV also dug France's financial woes even deeper. His son, Louis XVI inherited the huge financial mess that his father and grandfather created. And France did not finance the american revolution to support the americans. They did it to thwart the power of the british.
Please note Louis XVI was not the last king of France. That honour, if it can be called that, went to Louis XVIII, who except for a short period in 1815 ruled from April 1814 until September 1824.
As already mentioned, Frances help to the American Colonies for independence, cost France not just financially but politically. The turmoil which insued the revolution resulted in the terror and the rise of Napoleon. Tragic how so many lost their lives.
Some of the "poor souls murdered by the revolutionaries" were revolutionaries themselves. History is never as simple as our understanding of it. There was no "good" or "bad" at this time in history, just as any other time. That said, human nature at its worst had its day at the time. I, myself, have a soft for Marie Antoinette, and I wept when I read accouts of her final days. That said, she was of many.
They did DNA testing on blood stained cloth that wrapped Louis's head, according to 23&me he is a common ancestor to me, I showed no substantial French DNA , weird stuff
Please note that the French guillotine was a ' human' way of executing people (not sure about modern ways). And the guillotine was derived from an earlier device known as the ' Scottish widow'.
Any ‘revolution’ is barbarous and brutal - they always become worse than the supposed oppressive regimes they seek to replace as the prophets of the new righteousness!
Perhaps King Louis shouldn’t have let his people starve while he lived lavishly and spent their money irresponsibly. It wasn’t mob rule, it was poetic Justice. Read a history book.
@@jerseymike4135 please do not project modern values on pre-industrial aristocratic societies. The pomp and circumstance of the court at Versailles served the purposes of the early modern state. The roots of the French revolution are far-reaching (I am going to cover them in a short comment), but what is perceived today as lavishness is a very minor one. Louis XVI himself was a pious, charitable man with a simple life. The bulk of pre-industrial state expenses was on the military, and in 1789, France was a nearly bankrupt country, in particular because of its support to the American insurgents, and besides plagued by a bad grain harvest because of disastrous weather conditions in 1788-1789.
Louis XVI could have peacefully become a constitutionnal monarch, as provided by the new French constitution, but he never really adhered to the new institutions. He was tried and sentenced to death for high treason (the revolutionnaries found a significant correspondance with the emigrated French nobility and Austria, which planned a military invasion of France aimes at reestablishing the monarchy of divine right). Same for Marie- Antoinette.
I have always been terrified thinking what a human being may think and feel approaching to the place of his execution, regardless whether by firing, hanging or anything else
I cannot imagine what different minds think at such times. Awful. Nothing to do with bravery. Brave? What brave at such a time!? An extremely private time in the mind despite a crowd around.
I love how the King Louis XVI relic, which is blood on a handkerchief from his execution matches the mummified head of King Henri IV of France, the relic sample were tested at two laboratories with the same results. The relic sample is most consistent with G2a3b1a samples and contains unusually high, rare values for markers DYS385B and DYS458 in this haplogroup G subgroup. Subsequent testing in 2012 on a mummified head, purportedly that of King Henri IV of France, revealed that typing of a limited number of Y-STR's showed a Y-Dna haplogroup of G2a. Researchers said "Five STR loci [from the sample taken from the head] match the alleles found in Louis XVI, while another locus shows an allele that is just one mutation step apart. Taking into consideration that the partial Y-chromosome profile is extremely rare in modern human databases, we concluded that both males could be paternally related." The two French kings were separated by seven generations." But all that is thrown into the bin because three descendants of the House of Bourbon do not match either relic or head, it is me likely they are not male line descendants of those kings. For the record my longest DNA segment I share with King Louis XVI through the relic is 13.22 cM, and I also share Illyrian DNA with him. Illyria provided over 20 Emperors to the Roman Empire. Decius, ruled AD 249-251 Herennius Etruscus, ruled AD 251 Hostilianus, ruled AD 251 Claudius II "Gothicus", ruled AD 268-270 Quintillus, ruled AD 270 Aurelian, ruled AD 270-275 Probus, ruled AD 276-282 Diocletian, ruled AD 284-305 Maximianus "Herculius", ruled AD 286-305 Constantius Chlorus, ruled AD 305-306 Galerius, ruled AD 305-311 Severus II, ruled AD 306-307 Constantine I, ruled AD 306-337 Licinius, ruled AD 308-324 Constantius II, ruled AD 337-361 Jovian, ruled AD 363-364 Valentinianus I, ruled AD 364-375 Valens, ruled AD 364-378 Gratian, ruled AD 375-383 Valentinianus II, ruled AD 375-392 Constantius III, ruled AD 421 Valentinian III, ruled AD 425-455 Anastasius I, ruled AD 491-518 Justin I, ruled AD 518-527 Justinian I, ruled AD 527-565 Justin II, ruled AD 565-578
The authenticity of the blood on the hankerchief is unproven though. And there have always been rumours of infidelity by some queens like Anne of Austria - in her case with Cardinal Mazarin. The authenticity of the alleged head of Henry IV is also in doubt. We do have confirmed hair of Marie Antoinette though because its a match with Louis XVII's (the son of Louis XVIs) heart.
@@mango2005 The head was known as Henry IV for nearly 200 years and passed among private collections, and by the most miraculous coincidence it matches as grandfather to grandson the blood on the handkerchief of XVI lol. They're actually of the two monarchs because of the provenance of the head. The coincidence is too much otherwise. An investigation into the handkerchief found they matched very closely, proving the truth of both claims. It is only when the house of Bourbon were tested and it was found none of them matched either artifact that they demanded a second investigation, and it was suddenly found the head and the blood aren't actually the two monarchs lol. Except these two independently owned artifacts match each other at the level of grandfather and grandson. The modern House of Bourbon don't match these independently owned relics, so they're not of the House of Bourbon. I assume the failed match doesn't even meet a simple shared cM total of hundreds with long chains of 10cM and above.
@@palastofhistory4026 I am affraid there was no such king. Prince Henry could have been become Henry V in 1871 but for some complicated and political resaons (and not only thé famous white Bourbon flag affair) he didn't
@@laurentdevaux5617 iam afraid there was Charles X Adbicated in 1830 Not long after that Louis XIX (Aka the 20 minutes king) also Adbicated Infavor of Henry Afterwich Henry V became king of France For seven days until louis philippe was proclaimed king of the French
Compare to medieval barbaric decapitations, for examble: Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury was executed by decapitation, it took 11 strikes to cut head off by a butcher boy, and her neck and shoulders were hacked.
Perhaps, but being hanged, drawn and quartered or burned at the stake would be much much worse. I think the guillotine, compared to the other two methods I mentioned, is merciful.
I think you treat the whole matter quite superficially. The Kings wasn’t deposed at first by the revolution, he had to accept the constitution and was still recognized as Head of State. His arrest came after he and his family tried to flee to the Austrian Low Countries (now Belgium), this being high treason because Austria, like all other European powers, had declared war on the new French regime. So the Royal Family was abandoning the nation and the people to join the forces which were attacking France. The revolution didn’t came because of the money spent by the Royal Family, it was caused by multiple causes and the major one was that nobility and clergy weren’t submitted to taxes, while the rest of the people were.
Tres juste. Le roi essayait de réformer mais les classes privilégiées, qui étaient majoritaires au parlement, l’en ont empêché. Le roi n’avait pas autant de pouvoir que l’on croit. S’il a tenté de fuire avec sa famille, c’est que de toutes façons , ils étaient en grand danger, les effusions de sang, les meurtres ont commencé dès le 14 juillet 1789
Madame Tussaud did not make a wax mold of Louis XV's decapitated head. She never claimed to have done so. This claim only appears after her death, when her sons revamped the "Chamber of Horrors," and suddenly put Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI's heads in the chamber. Prior to this, they had only been in the 'royalty' section, with figures that included their children, described as being done from life. This fact applies to your video about Marie Antoinette as well.
Hey same thing for me from 23&Me. I got the following …… royal paternal line belonged to haplogroup G. In a more recent study, however, a different set of researchers tested three living men who are direct descendants of the Bourbon kings. Their efforts revealed that the male lineage of the House of Bourbon is actually a branch of haplogroup R-M405, from which your paternal line also stems. R-M405 common ancestor
I think it would have been the same outcome. I think it had nothing to do with famine, but power. A group wanted more power than the king was willing to give them. If the famine didn't happen this group would have used something else.
Maybe if read the bible about what the Pharoah experienced with the merchants, he would have sent his army to the warehouses where the grain had been hoarded to arrest the Jacobins before people were starving.
They didnt help their cause by turning down alliances with moderate revolutionaries that were offered to them by Lafayette, Antoine Barnave and Mirabeau. They actually helped the campaign of the Girondin Petion over Lafayette because the Queen hated the latter. The Iron chest in the Tuileries palace had mountains of documents showing the king was in league with France's enemies and was using public money to frustrate the revolution.
@@MsPoyee - All in Europe during that time… what I learned some History lesson even punishment had it’s own classification being Burning alive or Beheaded..
@@MsPoyeeGuillotine was fast and burning at the stake could be prolonged. Breaking on the wheel which the guillotine replaced could take days before death a person died.
@@redmi9834 When was the last Guillotine held in France ? I heard that during the French Revolution, some 20,000 people were guillotined, some got killed just for disapproving of the revolution.
@@MsPoyeechâtiment pour quel crime ?.😅 Jeanne d’Arc a été brûlée par des envahisseurs anglais .notre bon LouisXVI a été victime de la cupidité des grands bourgeois et de la franc maçonnerie. La grande majorité du peuple désapprouvait ce bain de sang, et la plupart des 20.000 guillotinés étaient complètement innocents. Sans oublier les genocide en Vendée
I’d give this one a C. Wrong about last king, wrong about revenue (a very small portion went to the court, though people believed otherwise), repeats three different sources without noting that or or the inconsistencies, and foregrounds the head story without producing it or saying why. Also, what happened to the body subsequently? NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
I recommend an account in the historical book "the French Revolution" by Nesta Webster. It will debunk all of the present day lies and misconceptions out by today's "Newspeak"
There was a revolution earlier in England and they executed King Charles I. Parliament wanted more power. It was a revolution although they don’t call it that. So the English revolution had already happened at this point.
@@daniakalaina There has always been wars, and probably always will, but this was different, they even followed after people with portable guillotines, who had fled overseas, tells you about the mentality of these people.
Vous avez eu Cromwell et les persécutions anti Catholiques en grande Bretagne, en Ecosse et surtout en Irlande , qui ont duré des siècles. Cela n’est pas mieux , il me semble
Let this moment in history be a lesson to anyone that think they can rule by divine right. The arrogance is incredible and louis as a result his cut clean off
One of the greatest tragedies in human history. The lies and the scapegoating of their majesties were atrocious. They didn’t deserve their fate. 😔 What happened to the children was an even greater tragedy. 😢
a story>> don "t know about its truth, but.........Louis was not a galaxy brain--- on the nite of July 14 th 1789 }} la Bastille s fall-------Louis wrote ONE word in his dairy }}} RIEN......Nothing.......}} and 4 years later that Nothing cut his head; off...
Madame Tussaud-infamous? What made her infamous? Surely famous or now globally known attraction. The poor use of the English language by this channel should see it removed from YT. This is at the same intellectual level as a child’s primary school presentation
Above a certain level, it is impossible to see below a certain level. The system was working perfectly well until the Freemasons came along... Then the peasant suddenly had a problem with being a peasant, because they were incited against the nobles. When I come across this story, it always upsets me because it is all based on a big lie ! I'm not saying that the nobility were not somewhat conceited, but it is natural above a certain level, but mass murder is by no means the solution to this !
Vidéo intéressante. Mais à 7:47, quand vous dites «Vive la Nation! Vive la République», ça aurait été bien que vous consultiez un Français pour prononcer ça. C'est vraiment caricatural.
Peasants very RARELY owned enough land to farm. Grow grains, as to hunting ? Again most forests ,land owned by nobility. It was a death penalty to be caught hunting on those lands.
The next time you have one of these historic happenings to tell,please,please get a narrator with a good,strong voice recount the facts,a person that everybody can easily understand,the person narrating about king Louis 16 is terrible,pronunciation is horrible and not easily understood unless you place your telephone very close to your ear(just an oplnion)
@Tony Trott No, it didn't actually in the early years. It was a bunch of fanatics that caused so much bloodshed and then started to eat each other. One after one, the heads, even the so-called revolutionaries, started to role.
You all need to get yourself a new narrator who can actually pronounce names and words right and get your facts straight they were murdered not executed.
STU.Ive followed this young lady for quite awhile. Generally she's always spot on in facts n her pronunciations are quite spot on too. You get youtube free . Don't like her history channel? Then f@#% off n find one of the 1000s of other history youtube channels.
Marie Antoinette never said those silly words; "Let them eat cake , if they have no bread!" She was unusually kind to her maids.. Both she and the King marched bravely and quietly to be cruelly executed
Robespierre screamed all the way to the Guillotine as he had botched his suicide attempt...
Marie is one of my heroes. She was every bit what I imagine a queen to be when she went to her death. As for the other guy, it doesn't surprise me at all that a coward who used others to do his dirty work would die a coward.
To be honest when she heard that the people invaded the Bastile, I heard she to ran towards her husband.
Marie's question wasn't out of disdain for the poor of France, but a symptom of her ignorance, due to the way she had been sheltered all of her life. She was told the people have no bread and she asked, "why don't they eat cake?" (Q'illes mangent du gateau?). It wasn't malicious; it was simple innocence.
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No she didn’t utter any such words. This “version of history”appeared many years after her death, but there is no basis in fact that she ever uttered such words.
@@trollmeistergeneral3467, very likely true. Apocryphal or not, had she said it, it would have been out of ignorance and genuine caring, not the malice that the Paris Commune claimed it was.
A fine monarch, both liberal to his people and the times. He was a devout and pius Roman Catholic and ruled France better than most, indeed far better than his murderers were too. He died a martyrs death and a true historical review of Louis is quickly awed by his faithfulness and desire to help his people.
As so often occurs, when a king is turned into a martyred one, he was followed by a blood thirsty regime that lacked humanity or any hope for its people. The terror led the way to disaster and its vicious cruelty knew no bounds.
Raymond King Louis XVI was a great man and a poor king. He was unfit for the position. He knew it, and yet he ruled. We all know how his reign ended.
The Bourbon dynasty was not a popular dynasty by the time of King Louis XVI, so I am not sure if he died a martyrs death in the eyes of the French people.
@@Rodricus-3644 The fact remains...for his time he was most liberal and desired the wellbeing of his people.
Uncertain of what the French thought of him or otherwise at the time of his death. Like Charles I in England or the Rissian Tsar he went to his death as a martyr, even if he was hated at the time by some, most martyrs are.
The historical fact remains this ..that his reign was far more noble and kindly than the revolution that murdered him.
@@1965Tofik well that is an opinion, shared by many...rejected by equally as many.
Ideas on good or bad kingship are not made from a historical perspective but from a moral one that depends upon how and what we expect.
His ignominious ending seems to be prima facie evidence that he was not a good king. Happy subjects don’t usually behead their monarchs.
I think the French revolution had everything to do with a small number of men wanting power and nothing to do with famine. The people were simply manipulated into carrying out the will of power-hungry men.
indeed similar to Brexit.
@@y3puGnxg Does it matter if it's a small number of people in the UK or the EU that have all the power? The only ones who should be in control of the UK is the UK not the EU.
As usual
@@Ieatpaste23 few people? Lol the king tried to implement democracy by dividing 3 group of representatives, the nobles, the clerics, and the peasants but rather than giving the peasants which was the biggest population in france a bigger voice he decided to give these 3 groups an equal voice. You know what happened next? The nobles collaborated with the clerics to stop the peasants to the point the peasants decided to establish their own representative body.
@@harukrentz435 None of that happened.
You know, it seems rather karma played a BIG part in the revolution. Robespierre executed the king, and later down the road, he was executed. So, yea, karma bit him in the butt...HARD.
Actually you should truly check out the facts , the French army and French parliament used the royals as a escape goat . They had plundered insane amounts of money 💰. trying to keep conquered lands abroad!.
The French people were totally fooled!.
The same with Charles I, for when The Restoration occurred, Charles II ordered Cromwell to be posthumously executed (12 years after the execution of Charles I) and his head placed on a pike pole outside of Westminster Hall (removed in 1685).
@@fabianwylie8707 And the French people are fooled to this day thinking that they have had any involvement with starting the Revolution when, in fact, they were its victim. But we can understand why when the history books lie about the real instigators and beneficiaries of the Revolution, the same who are leading the whole world to its demise through the globalist organisations of the elite.
What is Karma?
I've seen a total of one of my very many bullies receive "Karma."
He picked on another boy in a football game, and his fronts were busted. All my other antagonists went on to even more success. What happened to that boy was just an anomaly.
1:20 NOT the most flattering image of Louis XVI, to say the least. The fact that the image is bordered by tricolor ribbons indicates this could be a Revolutionary caricature of him. Tussaud biographer Kate Berridge stated that from 1793 until Marie's death in 1850, there's no record of Louis XVI or Marie Antoinette's heads being part of her exhibit. No mention of either head in the Tussaud wax exhibition catalogs, newspaper articles about the exhibition etc. Both heads first appeared in an 1865 Tussaud exhibit, when her two sons were running the business. The revolutionaries went so far as to burn the items in Louis' cell (furniture, clothes etc). It's unlikely they would've allowed a wax image of the head to be made, since it could be reproduced over and over from its original mould.
People forget that the main reason France was in economic distress was the support of the American Revolution, which could not have been won without the money, troops, supplies and more from France. This had a lot to do with Louie and Marie Antoinettes downfall.
I feel like the king and queen went to their execution with great poise and grace. So much dignity for such an unjust death. They did not deserve it especially the Queen Consort.
so you know for a fact that he didnt commit treason?
There is no place for any monarchy anywhere.
They are parasites.
WHAT?! While I am antimonarchy, they were guilty retrospectively. There was no way to defend against this claim.@@Boro87
They were given enough chances btw, They just felt like they could keep betraying everyone... so they did..
Regardless of what the facts are about King Louis and Queen Marie..there is great sadness that lingers inside of me for both of them..every time I look at this period of France's history....I don't know if it's ever mentioned that one factor that led to the French revolution was that France funded the American revolution which severely drained its coffers..leaving France without money to support itself and its people...and what followed was an unfolding that no one anticipated..
Also the French were expecting favorable trade for it's exports to the new USA. Instead trade between Britain and the new USA resumed at a similar level as before. In fact Britain's saved funds as it's navy no loner had to protect these ex colonies from pirates.
Vous faites une analyse tout à fait juste. Washington s’était engagé à rembourser le gouvernement Français, mais n’a pas tenu sa parole.
@@jaimequimaime-autrementnon2500To be fair it's not like America had any money to give anyway after independence lol
There were two more reigning Kings of France. They were Kings Louis XVIII and Charles X. While the son of King Louis XVI never reigned, he is classified as Louis XVII. It was the crazy support of the American revolutionaries that bankrupted France and led to the circumstances that caused the French revolution.
without king lois financial and arm support george washington could have been defeated capture.charge and hang by king george.
not entirely true. France was in big trouble financially because of Louis XIV's extravagance, war mongering and the massive amount of money he spent on Versailles. He also expelled the Huguenots from France, which was stupid because the huguenots were the skilled labor class. Louis XV also dug France's financial woes even deeper. His son, Louis XVI inherited the huge financial mess that his father and grandfather created. And France did not finance the american revolution to support the americans. They did it to thwart the power of the british.
There was also the Orleanist monarch, King Louis Philippe, who reigned from 1830 until 1848
I love all your videos. Very interesting.
Please note Louis XVI was not the last king of France. That honour, if it can be called that, went to Louis XVIII, who except for a short period in 1815 ruled from April 1814 until September 1824.
A self-crowned emperor is not royalty, as well? 😉
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factual history corrections are important,
merci
Ummm Charles X ??? 1824 - 1830
Louis-Philipe - Citizen King from 1830 - 1848 ?
@@JoKeR2280 it is such a fascinating era, that le effected/affected the whole world, eh.🙃
@@talpark8796Napoleon was not a king. He claimed the title Emperor of the French.
As already mentioned, Frances help to the American Colonies for independence, cost France not just financially but politically. The turmoil which insued the revolution resulted in the terror and the rise of Napoleon. Tragic how so many lost their lives.
You didn't show the cast Madame made. :(
because there wasn't one- even the narrative suggests one was never made as there wasn't time and M.Tussaud was probably not even there.
I have always wondered what happened to the bodies of all the other poor souls murdered by the revolutionaries.
Révolutionnaires, starved to death, were poor souls too.
Some of the "poor souls murdered by the revolutionaries" were revolutionaries themselves. History is never as simple as our understanding of it. There was no "good" or "bad" at this time in history, just as any other time. That said, human nature at its worst had its day at the time. I, myself, have a soft for Marie Antoinette, and I wept when I read accouts of her final days. That said, she was of many.
Where is the picture of the casted head as shown on your thumbnail... was this a click bait😅
thats not click bait..
So where is the mould to see in this video other than the teaser?
Although royals are not better than other people they are also not worse. Resentment against them is mostly just jealousy.
Correct.envy
They did DNA testing on blood stained cloth that wrapped Louis's head, according to 23&me he is a common ancestor to me, I showed no substantial French DNA , weird stuff
The French republic it's birth was drenched in blood and bears the stain to this day.
N'importe quoi
If you would care to translate please.
The meaning is Nonsense
I disagree obviously but thank you for being courteous enough to reply.
Your voice is very soothing.
What happened to the cast of his head?
Please tell me im not the only American watching this at 5am.
Horrifying, Brutal, Mob Rule, Disgusting, Such was the time in the history of Europe.
Please note that the French guillotine was a ' human' way of executing people (not sure about modern ways). And the guillotine was derived from an earlier device known as the ' Scottish widow'.
Any ‘revolution’ is barbarous and brutal - they always become worse than the supposed oppressive regimes they seek to replace as the prophets of the new righteousness!
and many times thereafter
Perhaps King Louis shouldn’t have let his people starve while he lived lavishly and spent their money irresponsibly. It wasn’t mob rule, it was poetic Justice. Read a history book.
@@jerseymike4135 please do not project modern values on pre-industrial aristocratic societies. The pomp and circumstance of the court at Versailles served the purposes of the early modern state. The roots of the French revolution are far-reaching (I am going to cover them in a short comment), but what is perceived today as lavishness is a very minor one. Louis XVI himself was a pious, charitable man with a simple life. The bulk of pre-industrial state expenses was on the military, and in 1789, France was a nearly bankrupt country, in particular because of its support to the American insurgents, and besides plagued by a bad grain harvest because of disastrous weather conditions in 1788-1789.
Louis XVI could have peacefully become a constitutionnal monarch, as provided by the new French constitution, but he never really adhered to the new institutions. He was tried and sentenced to death for high treason (the revolutionnaries found a significant correspondance with the emigrated French nobility and Austria, which planned a military invasion of France aimes at reestablishing the monarchy of divine right). Same for Marie- Antoinette.
I have always been terrified thinking what a human being may think and feel approaching to the place of his execution, regardless whether by firing, hanging or anything else
you're not brave then
@@spudspuddy Would you in such a case?
I cannot imagine what different minds think at such times. Awful. Nothing to do with bravery. Brave? What brave at such a time!? An extremely private time in the mind despite a crowd around.
@@sheilaottley7208 Simply terrifying
we're all heading towards the same fate every day... we just don't like to think about it
I love how the King Louis XVI relic, which is blood on a handkerchief from his execution matches the mummified head of King Henri IV of France, the relic sample were tested at two laboratories with the same results. The relic sample is most consistent with G2a3b1a samples and contains unusually high, rare values for markers DYS385B and DYS458 in this haplogroup G subgroup. Subsequent testing in 2012 on a mummified head, purportedly that of King Henri IV of France, revealed that typing of a limited number of Y-STR's showed a Y-Dna haplogroup of G2a.
Researchers said "Five STR loci [from the sample taken from the head] match the alleles found in Louis XVI, while another locus shows an allele that is just one mutation step apart. Taking into consideration that the partial Y-chromosome profile is extremely rare in modern human databases, we concluded that both males could be paternally related." The two French kings were separated by seven generations."
But all that is thrown into the bin because three descendants of the House of Bourbon do not match either relic or head, it is me likely they are not male line descendants of those kings.
For the record my longest DNA segment I share with King Louis XVI through the relic is 13.22 cM, and I also share Illyrian DNA with him. Illyria provided over 20 Emperors to the Roman Empire.
Decius, ruled AD 249-251
Herennius Etruscus, ruled AD 251
Hostilianus, ruled AD 251
Claudius II "Gothicus", ruled AD 268-270
Quintillus, ruled AD 270
Aurelian, ruled AD 270-275
Probus, ruled AD 276-282
Diocletian, ruled AD 284-305
Maximianus "Herculius", ruled AD 286-305
Constantius Chlorus, ruled AD 305-306
Galerius, ruled AD 305-311
Severus II, ruled AD 306-307
Constantine I, ruled AD 306-337
Licinius, ruled AD 308-324
Constantius II, ruled AD 337-361
Jovian, ruled AD 363-364
Valentinianus I, ruled AD 364-375
Valens, ruled AD 364-378
Gratian, ruled AD 375-383
Valentinianus II, ruled AD 375-392
Constantius III, ruled AD 421
Valentinian III, ruled AD 425-455
Anastasius I, ruled AD 491-518
Justin I, ruled AD 518-527
Justinian I, ruled AD 527-565
Justin II, ruled AD 565-578
The authenticity of the blood on the hankerchief is unproven though. And there have always been rumours of infidelity by some queens like Anne of Austria - in her case with Cardinal Mazarin. The authenticity of the alleged head of Henry IV is also in doubt. We do have confirmed hair of Marie Antoinette though because its a match with Louis XVII's (the son of Louis XVIs) heart.
@@mango2005 The head was known as Henry IV for nearly 200 years and passed among private collections, and by the most miraculous coincidence it matches as grandfather to grandson the blood on the handkerchief of XVI lol. They're actually of the two monarchs because of the provenance of the head. The coincidence is too much otherwise.
An investigation into the handkerchief found they matched very closely, proving the truth of both claims.
It is only when the house of Bourbon were tested and it was found none of them matched either artifact that they demanded a second investigation, and it was suddenly found the head and the blood aren't actually the two monarchs lol.
Except these two independently owned artifacts match each other at the level of grandfather and grandson.
The modern House of Bourbon don't match these independently owned relics, so they're not of the House of Bourbon. I assume the failed match doesn't even meet a simple shared cM total of hundreds with long chains of 10cM and above.
Louis Philippe was the last French king, not Louis XVI
Quite true, he was the last French king, but not the last king of France... that was Charles X
Louis philippe was king of the French
Not king of France
The last king of France was Henry V
@@palastofhistory4026 I am affraid there was no such king. Prince Henry could have been become Henry V in 1871 but for some complicated and political resaons (and not only thé famous white Bourbon flag affair) he didn't
@@laurentdevaux5617 iam afraid there was
Charles X Adbicated in 1830
Not long after that Louis XIX
(Aka the 20 minutes king)
also Adbicated Infavor of Henry
Afterwich
Henry V became king of France
For seven days until louis philippe was proclaimed king of the French
@@palastofhistory4026 by that logic, the last undisputed king of France was Charles X. Henri, Count of Chambord's reign is largely disputed
Where is the cast of the head now ? This was not explained, and should have been.
I enjoy the opportunities for learning about the history that you provide. That being said to me decapitation is a horrible way to die.
Compare to medieval barbaric decapitations, for examble: Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury was executed by decapitation, it took 11 strikes to cut head off by a butcher boy, and her neck and shoulders were hacked.
Better than hanging any day. It's instantaneous
Perhaps, but being hanged, drawn and quartered or burned at the stake would be much much worse. I think the guillotine, compared to the other two methods I mentioned, is merciful.
i say we try it on trump after his conviction for treason
@@elizabethhalloway149Biden caught taking bribes as VP from foreign agents. Who's the traitor again?
I think you treat the whole matter quite superficially. The Kings wasn’t deposed at first by the revolution, he had to accept the constitution and was still recognized as Head of State. His arrest came after he and his family tried to flee to the Austrian Low Countries (now Belgium), this being high treason because Austria, like all other European powers, had declared war on the new French regime. So the Royal Family was abandoning the nation and the people to join the forces which were attacking France.
The revolution didn’t came because of the money spent by the Royal Family, it was caused by multiple causes and the major one was that nobility and clergy weren’t submitted to taxes, while the rest of the people were.
Tres juste. Le roi essayait de réformer mais les classes privilégiées, qui étaient majoritaires au parlement, l’en ont empêché. Le roi n’avait pas autant de pouvoir que l’on croit. S’il a tenté de fuire avec sa famille, c’est que de toutes façons , ils étaient en grand danger, les effusions de sang, les meurtres ont commencé dès le 14 juillet 1789
That execution device , the guillotine, is pronounced "gee-o-teen". It's French, as was the man who invented it.
Madame Tussaud did not make a wax mold of Louis XV's decapitated head. She never claimed to have done so. This claim only appears after her death, when her sons revamped the "Chamber of Horrors," and suddenly put Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI's heads in the chamber. Prior to this, they had only been in the 'royalty' section, with figures that included their children, described as being done from life. This fact applies to your video about Marie Antoinette as well.
"Louis XV's decapitated head" typo, Louis XVI.
Very nice 👌
Apparently 23and me says he was my paternal great great great etc grandfather 🤯
Hey same thing for me from 23&Me. I got the following …… royal paternal line belonged to haplogroup G. In a more recent study, however, a different set of researchers tested three living men who are direct descendants of the Bourbon kings. Their efforts revealed that the male lineage of the House of Bourbon is actually a branch of haplogroup R-M405, from which your paternal line also stems.
R-M405 common ancestor
Tussaud, the "d" is silent
Beware of the mob!
If Louis would have looosed his treasury to by food for the masses we are left to wonder how history would have played out.
I think it would have been the same outcome. I think it had nothing to do with famine, but power. A group wanted more power than the king was willing to give them. If the famine didn't happen this group would have used something else.
Maybe if read the bible about what the Pharoah experienced with the merchants, he would have sent his army to the warehouses where the grain had been hoarded to arrest the Jacobins before people were starving.
That was great, but bone chilling, you feel almost as if you were there.
The murder of a king and queen will forever be a stain on the French Nation.
They didnt help their cause by turning down alliances with moderate revolutionaries that were offered to them by Lafayette, Antoine Barnave and Mirabeau. They actually helped the campaign of the Girondin Petion over Lafayette because the Queen hated the latter. The Iron chest in the Tuileries palace had mountains of documents showing the king was in league with France's enemies and was using public money to frustrate the revolution.
this is what weakness leads to
the king should have been more brutal against his critics
that way he could save himself and his family
There were no photograph of his head
Beheaded & Burning alive the darkest punishment in human history which was inhumane & Brutal…
France seemed to have brutal punishment … Guillotined & burnt at the stake (Joan of Arc).
@@MsPoyee -
All in Europe during that time… what I learned some History lesson even punishment had it’s own classification being Burning alive or Beheaded..
@@MsPoyeeGuillotine was fast and burning at the stake could be prolonged. Breaking on the wheel which the guillotine replaced could take days before death a person died.
@@redmi9834 When was the last Guillotine held in France ? I heard that during the French Revolution, some 20,000 people were guillotined, some got killed just for disapproving of the revolution.
@@MsPoyeechâtiment pour quel crime ?.😅 Jeanne d’Arc a été brûlée par des envahisseurs anglais .notre bon LouisXVI a été victime de la cupidité des grands bourgeois et de la franc maçonnerie. La grande majorité du peuple désapprouvait ce bain de sang, et la plupart des 20.000 guillotinés étaient complètement innocents. Sans oublier les genocide en Vendée
There were no photograph at that time, after him the monarchy was never the same again
I’d give this one a C. Wrong about last king, wrong about revenue (a very small portion went to the court, though people believed otherwise), repeats three different sources without noting that or or the inconsistencies, and foregrounds the head story without producing it or saying why. Also, what happened to the body subsequently? NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
"No-one would have anticipated the bloodshed that occurred after [the French Revolution]".
Ummmm. . .
No. 16 is a very unlucky number.. poor Louis
I recommend an account in the historical book "the French Revolution" by Nesta Webster. It will debunk all of the present day lies and misconceptions out by today's "Newspeak"
So... you just read off wikipedia? Is that all?
Very simplified
23andme said I share a paternal line with this dude, lol wiiiiild
It's interesting how this reign of terror never spread to England, different mentalities in the people I suppose.
There was a revolution earlier in England and they executed King Charles I. Parliament wanted more power. It was a revolution although they don’t call it that. So the English revolution had already happened at this point.
@@daniakalaina They didn't execute everyone though, who was suspected of being an aristo, although I suspect things might have gone that way.
True but there was a war and many people died
@@daniakalaina There has always been wars, and probably always will, but this was different, they even followed after people with portable guillotines, who had fled overseas, tells you about the mentality of these people.
Vous avez eu Cromwell et les persécutions anti Catholiques en grande Bretagne, en Ecosse et surtout en Irlande , qui ont duré des siècles. Cela n’est pas mieux , il me semble
he might not live a holy life but certainly had a holy death.
Let this moment in history be a lesson to anyone that think they can rule by divine right. The arrogance is incredible and louis as a result his cut clean off
Stupid click bait. So, what about Louis' head cast?
She never made wax molds of his head....
Both sides of the French Revolution were at fault.
Too much repetition in the narration, and out of sequence. History is always interesting, though.
I'm thinking that soon a lot of American politicians are going to experience the same fate.
Can we do this to Charles the Unwanted?
Is the voice AI? Pronunciation is pants
Content is good tho
R.I.P
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Interesting
And ... what about the real causes of the french revolution ?
Sick and sad
Louis XVI was NOT THE last King of France!!
Macron should see this as he makes his moves??????😊
One of the greatest tragedies in human history. The lies and the scapegoating of their majesties were atrocious. They didn’t deserve their fate. 😔 What happened to the children was an even greater tragedy. 😢
The American Republic was born in revelution as well. And in my opinion even more dramatic.
Everything has devide et impera
This is Life guys, Sad but true
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Murderers adored in the French bloody anthem: l' etandard sanglante est levee! the bloody standard is lifted.
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Guy never had a headache again
What an exciting event for the watchers.
Je ne sais quoi
Wasn't the last king of France
Theyd have had to fight me.
He was not the last king of France!
Interesting roots of the Billion-$-Stock-Company "Madame-Tussauds-Inc."😅
In movies, he's slim and sexy. So I thought he was very good looking. These paintings here though show him as obese with a very full chubby face.
So what?
He put on weight at the revolution as he was not allowed to hunt.
a story>> don "t know about its truth, but.........Louis was not a galaxy brain--- on the nite of July 14 th 1789 }} la Bastille s fall-------Louis wrote ONE word in his dairy }}} RIEN......Nothing.......}} and 4 years later that Nothing cut his head; off...
RIP
Madame Tussaud-infamous? What made her infamous?
Surely famous or now globally known attraction.
The poor use of the English language by this channel should see it removed from YT.
This is at the same intellectual level as a child’s primary school presentation
Whoaaaa calm down there Seabiscuit
Vive le Roé!
Wrong again! It was Charles X!
I found out through DNA I am related to him
Above a certain level, it is impossible to see below a certain level. The system was working perfectly well until the Freemasons came along... Then the peasant suddenly had a problem with being a peasant, because they were incited against the nobles. When I come across this story, it always upsets me because it is all based on a big lie ! I'm not saying that the nobility were not somewhat conceited, but it is natural above a certain level, but mass murder is by no means the solution to this !
Too many wrong things in this documentary, for a history channel no sorry !
Vidéo intéressante. Mais à 7:47, quand vous dites «Vive la Nation! Vive la République», ça aurait été bien que vous consultiez un Français pour prononcer ça. C'est vraiment caricatural.
Madame Tussaud was not infamous
Well, cant help but think they was killed over bread. Why not grow food and hunt?
Peasants very RARELY owned enough land to farm. Grow grains, as to hunting ? Again most forests ,land owned by nobility. It was a death penalty to be caught hunting on those lands.
Or they could have just eaten cake...
Good riddance
Awful writing. Worst delivery.
The next time you have one of these historic happenings to tell,please,please get a narrator with a good,strong voice recount the facts,a person that everybody can easily understand,the person narrating about king Louis 16 is terrible,pronunciation is horrible and not easily understood unless you place your telephone very close to your ear(just an oplnion)
Bas-tee
Louis XVIII was the last king of France. Learn your history before you make a video.
Good riddance to bad rubbish....
Qui est l’ordure ? Vous , sans doutes…..
time the uk abolished the monsrchy
It didn’t lead to good things for France. Be careful what you wish for.
@@helend7542 yes it did
Nope
@Tony Trott No, it didn't actually in the early years. It was a bunch of fanatics that caused so much bloodshed and then started to eat each other. One after one, the heads, even the so-called revolutionaries, started to role.
The House of Lords first.
He seriously deserved it.
You all need to get yourself a new narrator who can actually pronounce names and words right and get your facts straight they were murdered not executed.
STU.Ive followed this young lady for quite awhile. Generally she's always spot on in facts n her pronunciations are quite spot on too. You get youtube free . Don't like her history channel? Then f@#% off n find one of the 1000s of other history youtube channels.