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Amid frustration of not having earned a single academy award, he saw his brother as a threat and subsequently had him locked away with the intention of never having him interact with anyone ever again. He just couldn't find it in himself to have his own brother murdered. This is the story of his compromise.
"...the real father of King Louis the 14th. King Louis the 14th was quite old at the time of his miraculous birth..." That really is miraculous to be old at the time of ones own birth! Woops LOL
Considering Louis XIV had a younger brother as well, it seems like a lot was done if you believe the "not Louis XIII's son" theory. Also, given the literally religious view of the divine right of kings of the day, it's a stretch that they'd subvert it.
Maybe the Man in the Iron Mask is just a title given to any prisoner that is forced to wear an iron mask? To me that seems like the best explanation for why there is so much inconsistency with the records.
Actually, some reports say that the mask wasn't in Iron at all but looked that way because of the colour or something like that......it's been a while since I read on the subject but from what I remember there are records of such a prisoner whose identity was hidden, wasn't allowed to speak, was under constant surveillance, etc but the iron mask itself is debated....Maybe I'm remembering wrong.
@@Lanwarder he did wear an iron mask because the cure of grasse saw him by the public fountain,st mars was giving him water,he almost suffociated in it,so they didn't do it afterwards. it was velvet mask afterwards someone once heard it was about the kings marriage inthe 1760s,i think
Fascinating stuff! Can't believe this is still a mystery - thanks for shedding light. I don't personally give a shit about the ads cuz I know how to use the slider on a video player.
This is a ground breaking discovery, this would mean he actually was of royal blood, hence the desired unorthodox treatment and activities, kept to be secret.
I absolutely loved the book "The Count of Monte Cristo" & read it several times as a kid. Also thought some of the movies based on the book were pretty fun.
From what I remember of that story, I always had the feeling Dauger was allowed to serve Fouquet because Fouquet already knew the man's "secret". Prior to his disgrace Fouquet was holding the office of "chancellor of the exchequer" (superintendant des finances), so he must have been private to almost every State secret. And as he was already lucky to have had his life spared, it's unlikely he would have spilled the beans on Dauger. If you want to understand the extent of Fouquet's embezzlment that led him into prison, just check out the "Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte", or better come visit it. It is said the Mirrors Gallery in Versailles had to be extended a couple of meters by Louis XIVth to best his Minister's own castle... Now as to the identity of the man itself, no clues. There's a constant administrative trail followinfg Saint-Mars and _his_ prisonner from prison to prison, but it's been deliberately obscured. I don't think personnaly it was something as fancy as an unknown brother of the King, but most likely someone who was _supposed_ to be dead already, and kept as an asset in case revealing he was very much alive could prove an advantage. For instance a foreign spy.
i wonder if it concerned the would be queen,sun king wanted to marry a mancini sister fouquet seduced women in royal court like maintenon and possibly the queen
Likely has to do with millennia of tempering the stomach to handle it, us being a traditionally omnivorous species as where dogs were carnivorous, and I'm sure bacteria in each species gut has something to do with something as they are vastly different.
I started watching these videos because I love history and odd things, but the longer this guys beard gets the more I want to stay and see how long he’ll let it grow 😍😍
Candace Farrell There is a choice. Do it at the beginning or at the end. I get that sponsors are vital, but it detracts from the content and people are likely to stop watching if it becomes a regular thing.
What if the man in the iron mask wasn't one person, but a role - a symbolic figure like Batman or the unknown soldier? That would explain the mask and going out of the way to keep him alive, right?
Another fact... The man once threw a plate out of the window with a message scratched into it. The peasant who found it handed it into the warder. The only thing that saved the peasant from being executed was the fact that he could not read.
@@BlackHearthguard No that's not how this works. Anyone who is a consumer of your content gets a voice on how you advertise to them. If you want people to actually enjoy your shit, it's not hard to listen. Not doing so is exactly how you lose profit and consumers. No consumers = no profit. If someone has a patreon and asks for money that way, they shouldn't also be including this many advertisements in their show. I know plenty of youtubers who don't even give advertisements on every video let alone this many. All of them survive just fine on patreon.
+Dino_Spamoni : If you wish to sermon or preach, then do it by example, something you didn`t do. The people providing this channel can take or consider suggestions, but I doubt that they want to be bossed or bullied. So, state your criticisms correctly, or else just shut up.
On his end, it was actually smart to put the ad in the middle of the video, because people might be less likely to click off or avoid the ad, rather than having people click off when the ad at the end of the video starts.
@@pyrix This doesn't prevent that though. They just skip it in the middle by clicking a few bars over. I do it all the time. I have never watched the ads. There is absolutely no way to force people to watch ads. It reminds me of the dumb choices companies make that end up costing them more than it does to just deal with the problem like everyone else does (Coke shooting themselves in the foot over and over again). You can't stop some things like people skipping ads. Trying to do so only ends up making them resist harder and annoys your base. I'd suggest being transparent and not trying to annoy people intentionally.
It is a great idea. It makes the ad much more valuable and means we get much more content since their revenue increases. If you feel like making massive donations on Patreon, maybe the ads won't be there anymore.
@@v5red No it doesn't, people just skip it anyways. It's not hard to just click a few bars over and be right into the video again. So it just annoys people and doesn't force people to watch them. You can't FORCE people to watch ads.
Thanks for this video. The Man in the Iron Mask is one of my favourite novels, although mainly because of its mischievous portrait of Louis XIV and his court.
People should stop complaining about Simon doing an ad-read during the video. Sponsorships, like those provided by Backblaze in this example, are an integral part of keeping channels afloat - especially channels like this one that is run by several people. Yes, I'm aware they have Patreon, but not everyone can or will pledge to that, and therefore it's not a guaranteed source of revenue for a channel putting out the amount of quality content TIFO do, so sponsored ad-reads are usually a more efficient way of bringing in enough money to keep everything rolling on. UA-cam itself is very difficult at the moment, with older videos earning lower money per ad than newer videos, so it's not like TIFO can even rely on their back catalogue to consistently bring in revenue. For the time it takes for Simon to do a 30-second ad-read (usually an amount of time dictated by the sponsoring company) you could quite easily check your text messages or twitter or even write a to-do list of what you hope to do with the rest of your day, something productive. It's not like it even lasts that long within the confines of this 13+ minute video. Please show Simon and the rest of TIFO some respect as creators, who are just trying to earn a living bringing you this free, high-quality content on a daily basis. Keep doing what you're doing, TIFO. You're doing awesome stuff here!
I'm EXTREMELY ashamed to admit that my entire knowledge of this time in history was most definitely ruined [in my childhood] by watching the animated TV series: 'Dogtanian And The Three Muscehounds'!!!
You know I kind of Wonder now. why you can't tell how old an anime is by its animation? Cuz it can be a brand new and use an old animation style. To each his own I guess
Based on the non-fiction book "The Black Count" by Tom Reiss, Alexandre Dumas's "The Count of Monte Cristo" was heavily modeled on Dumas's father, who was one of Napoleon's generals in Egypt, and who was captured and held in prison in Italy. You might find that an interesting story to investigate.
I think being some rather fit and handsome servant with at lest a passing resemblance to one of the king's relatives selected to service the queen and provide an heir to the kingdom, Is the most likely theory. He may have very simply been a valet in his regular duties at the palace where he was spotted by the Cardinal or perhaps the Queen and therefore selected for the task. Any man called upon to serve his country by boinking the queen and providing an heir to his country would certainly be grateful to God and to the king he had helped produce. If that is the case it seems very likely that the king would have known that the valet was his father. It's also totally possible that this very same valet was the illegitimate child of some other Noble since keeping Mistresses was not exactly a quiet thing. It would be quite ironic if the impotent King was actually employing the services of his own illegitimate nephew. Since there is plenty of record of Louie the 12th having Mistresses also. Being a bastard or son of a bastard even a royal bastard means him serving as a valet would have been totally normal. When bastards were not killed outright or banished from the country, keeping them close to home was the other common option of the era. If that was the case it would seem keeping him around certainly paid off.
TIFO, First... regarding your video... As always... interesting and fun. Some of the same old, but some new... keep at it... On the ad(s)... My only ever dislike of commercial advertisement over the web has been simple. From popups to the random assortment generated and stuck into video placement, they tend to have one thing in common. Third party code... Either through cookies or from other invasive routines, this practice has always sat ill with me as a security risk to my machine in general... And in recent years particularly, it has only been proven outright. For you to put together an ad-placement inside your presentation, thoughtful enough to avoid all outsider-wares and cookies seems to be a service to me. For that, graciously as possible, I thank you. I think there's still something to be said for creativity (maybe a segway improvement... or even just something laughable to go with the ideal) but I can honestly approve of the practice of your supporting positive sponsors while avoiding outside influxes of unknown code bombarding my computer when I only clicked (in point of fact) to see what it was you had to say on a subject. So whether it was adpocalypse or some other drive that made you post the ad in the first place, I say "good on you"... And "damn the haters"... Pay them no heed as everyone on the web just seems to want everything given freely until the whole system comes crashing down. They either do not understand or do not care that someone still has to do real work and still deserves some real compensation for it to continue building even decent content. :o)
I don't think it's the fact that an ad is present that is annoying people. It's the fact that it's a 50 second ad smack dab in the middle of a video that already had an ad at the beginning that people find annoying.
gnarth d'arkanen What annoys me is the fact that companies in ads, especially the longer ones, are using my WIFI (also electricity) without my permission, for times, up to sometimes 2 minutes. If one is on some sort of timed budget plan, then that ad buy is basically stealing from those the ad is aimed at, which is at least annoying.
gnarth d'arkanen - I'm actually appalled that "Today I Found Out..." actually has a Patreon when they make plenty of money from UA-cam ad revenue AND their sponsors.... Patreon should be reserved for those that *CAN'T* get ad revenue because of UA-cam's strict censoring guidelines. It's pretty fucked that viewers are ALREADY paying to help support those that actually NEED it...but now these guys (TIFO), who are already raking in the ad/sponsor money, have the nerve to ask us for MORE???
Honey Bee 86, SURE TIFO is just RAKING in the cash... Cash and more cash from the poor under privileged viewers... That's why they have thousands and thousands of little minions on the top of the line computers scouring the world over for information to serve up to you and me daily... Right? No. There are three... COUNT THEM... Three (3) guys total who actually work on any/all of their presentations. So to have the unmitigated gall to suggest that they don't have any right to ask, remind, bitch, whine, cry, and carry on for revenue improvement is simply asinine. Sorry if you find ad-placement in the middle of presentations annoying. Sorry if you find the excessive length of their ad's or sponsored announcements annoying. BUT if there were no ads, and everyone on YT had originally just paid up to support it, it would have only cost about ten bucks ($10 US) a month per user to do so... Ad revenues are in serious peril since the "ad-pocalypse" situation which led YT to start the severity of their censorships... I agree that there NEEDS to be a serious push-back on these marketers who want nothing more than to turn YT into Cable TV... But TIFO can't be blamed for seeking just a little better for their own... It's easy to see a polished and professional looking, "sleek" finished product and just assume it's done by a factory full of paid employees. It's easy to assume it's the work of savvy guys in a full blown studio and they're practically top-level executives who spend more time chasing secretaries or whining about the wine menu at a five-star restaurant than actually doing anything. It's easy to assume Simon is a grand-poobah of super-stars and has women throwing themselves at him on every street corner (have you checked the cancer sections lately?)...But it simply isn't true. They're three guys who have a little technical savvy and worked out this channel over Skype and/or Discord, while they each have separate lives (both professionally and personally). As for those who face the excruciating censorship? Yes, it sucks. BUT that's an issue to take up with YT. Or maybe, when enough creators have gone to build greater content elsewhere, and just kept their channels on YT to post Vanilla crap to swamp it to death... maybe that's the kind of movement online that would teach the YT exec's a thing or two about why we left Cable for the net in the first place. :o)
To the people who always say "but he NEEDS ads to make these videos". No one is arguing that. Yes he does. Ads are very much necessary. TWO OR THREE MINUTE LONG ADS THAT ACTUALLY INTERRUPT THE FLOW OF THE CONTENT MID VIDEO ARE NOT. That's totally unnecessary. Tons of UA-camrs get by without doing that. What part of that is difficult to understand?
On a side note, getting files off a computer is easy. The hard part is deleting them. If you were to take the harddrive out, and smash it with a hammer then light on fire, you MIGHT be able to get rid of the files. Otherwise, just get a usb to harddrive plug for $12 off amazon and pull your own files.
I am confused with the theory explained at 8:40. Simon Whistler said, "Another theory is that he was actually the real father of King Louis the fourteenth. You see, King Louis the fourteenth was quite old at the time of his miraculous birth, but an heir was needed lest Louis the thirteenth's brother, Gaston de Orléans, become King (something certain powerful entities, like Cardinal Richelieu and the Queen herself, would have likely been against for various political reasons). Thus this particular theory states that the Cardinal and Anne arranged for another man to father the child. As with the other theories, though, there is little in the way of actual evidence to back it up but at least it would explain why the prisoner would be so fond of the King, despite that same King having had him imprisoned for all of his life. Of course, would a King really allow his own father to function as a servant, assuming he knew, and if he didn't know, why keep him alive or even imprison him at all?" So who was the supposed child of the prisoner, King Louis the fourteenth, or King Louis the fourteenth's "son", or Kind Louis the thirteenth's "son", or am I just way off? How can King Louis the fourteenth be "quite old at the time of [his own?] miraculous birth" having the prisoner being his father?
Could it actually be "You see, King Louis the THIRTEENTH was quite old at the time of his (Louis XIV) miraculous birth..."? Louis XIII was quite old and thus could not have borne a child (the future Louis XIV), so Richelieu and Anne got hold of another man's child and claimed that this child was borne between her and Louis XIII. If this is true, then this could explain why this man (in the iron mask) would be so fond of the (future) king (Louis XIV). There is another similar alleged conspiracy surrounding the birth of Chinese Emperor Qianlong.
@@ferrarim5p75 thats wrong sun kings father was in 30s,this is quoting dutch progranda which was trying to say sun king is a bastard. to found out fathers age see wikipedia,report back please plus prisoners was born about 1643
It’s bad enough to be locked up in-isolation in prison during the Tudor Period of Europe but in addition to that, having to wear an iron mask that I’m sure was insanely uncomfortable is truly horrific. Personally I don’t think I could have gone through that level of inhumanity.
Watching a special on "The Man the Iron Mask," a historian said the the mask was more likely a cloth or similar covering, the book mentioned in here being where the idea of an iron mask came from. Also, the historian said that some documents suggested the possibility that the prisoner chose to wear the mask. Either truth, this has always been an interesting topic for me (excluding DiCaprio's portrayal as it's artistic licence).
Etienne du Jonca’s (the King’s Lieutenant of the Bastille) journal clearly states that the man always wore a mask of black velvet, possibly a “loo” mask, a type of half mask, when being moved around the Bastille. This diary is still in existence, so we know the exact date of the prisoner’s arrival at the Bastille and when he died, the 19th. November, 1703 by the French calendar. Now one oddity emerges from the info we have on the Mask’s death - his age was then estimated at 45 years, which if at all accurate puts him about 12 years old when arrested in the Dunkirk/Calais area by Vauroy. Quite a bit of St. Mars correspondence with Minister Louvois has survived and is reprinted in several early books on the Masked Man. It lacks any clues about an early-aged person when arrested. It is time to separate the known evidence still in the French archives from the rest of the fake news which surrounds this story. Our M. d’Oger, d’Auger, Dauger, Danger, (or similar actual name - name spelling in those days was very variable), has to be the prime suspect, but there are others not entirely able to be eliminated, including a valet named La Rivière, and Ercole Mattioli. However if it is not Dauger who died in the Bastille, then where, while in St. Mars hands between Pignerol and the Bastille, did he actually die ? And irrespective of his place of death, what had Dauger (possibly not his real name) done to deserve up to 34 years of imprisonment at enormous cost , when in those days he could easily have been tried, convicted, and executed ? For anyone really interested in this subject first consult the published books from the early 1800’s onwards, especially those containing items from the French archives. Start with the 1826 book by George Agar Ellis, and finish with books by Paul Sonnino and Peter Curran. Other authors are e.g. Tighe Hopkins, Marius Topin, John Noone, Harry Thompson, A.S. Barnes, and the latest by Josephine Wilkinson. And if you are curious about what Dumas actually knew about our mystery prisoner, then read his “Man In the Iron Mask (an Essay)” his non-fiction research, and not his fictional last Musketeer novel “Ten Years Later”
@@danMdan when a prisoner died in bastile, they gave false names and ages because that was the law in those days. he did wear an iron mask once ,but he almost suffocalted, so they didn't do that from then on. interestingly the 2 people trying to spring fouquet from prison approached him,he said leave me alone and told st mars about it,perhaps thought i am being tested by st mars whether i will try to escape
@@PaulRumbold-wk5re Agreed. As i understand it the "steel mask" could have been an invention of St. Mars when coming to St Marguerite island, as the evidence of DeJunca clearly in his own handwriting says a "masque de velours noir", Nov. 1703. And the memory of the Palteau peasants was of an upper face "loo" mask. But after so long away from the world why was it necessary to use any mask by then, on way to the Bastille, and in the Bastille - unless it was just to create the impression of someone who was really no-one. Whatever, do you accept it was the "prisoner from Dunquerque" originally taken to Pignerol by Vauroy in 1669?
@@Wolfe911 The facts have been too long distorted by the writings of Voltaire and Dumas; one with political motives, and t'other by the book selling romances of Dumas.
@@PaulRumbold-wk5re Agreed on that. I think your steel mask may have origin from Voltaire, and the occasion being arriving on St. Marguerite from Exiles. Remember Mattioli was not transferred to St. Marguerite until years later.
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So, bascally "nobody actually knows" + "The ruse/Mask" actually served its purpose. Very clever of A. Dumas for using it, really. As with D. Brown's noels, I'm stikcing with the truth, but enjoy the "noveliztion/dramatization" very much. :)
Just going to spitball my own theory. Just a guy who looked exactly like the king. Couldn’t have someone like that around because of the obvious threat to the throne. Yet an enterprising mind might see that having a body double around would be useful in case the king had need for one... so, lock the gentleman up under strict rules. And take care of him.
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That I'm a chronic masturbator ☻
The man in the iron mask was the only prisoner in France at the time who was forced to wear a iron mask
Hmmmmm
It was Leonardo DiCaprio.
brilliant ) FYI it could be him, had he not drowned on Titanic.
Amid frustration of not having earned a single academy award, he saw his brother as a threat and subsequently had him locked away with the intention of never having him interact with anyone ever again. He just couldn't find it in himself to have his own brother murdered. This is the story of his compromise.
Matthew Familia wrong date
I knew it!
Lmao
He must have really pissed someone off
But not enough to get him killed?
jmchez No. Keeping him in isolation for 4 decades in a mask is way worse than death.
Thoughts on Hans Landa?
Oooo r u Italian
"...the real father of King Louis the 14th. King Louis the 14th was quite old at the time of his miraculous birth..."
That really is miraculous to be old at the time of ones own birth! Woops LOL
He was born a few months early. Implying that he was conceived out of wedlock. A big whoops for the royal couple.
Considering Louis XIV had a younger brother as well, it seems like a lot was done if you believe the "not Louis XIII's son" theory. Also, given the literally religious view of the divine right of kings of the day, it's a stretch that they'd subvert it.
I used to tell people that I was born at a very young age...
Bottom line... the mask worked!
Ya but I still wish we new 100persent
Yeah XD
Truth. Sad but truth.
Maybe the Man in the Iron Mask is just a title given to any prisoner that is forced to wear an iron mask? To me that seems like the best explanation for why there is so much inconsistency with the records.
Actually, some reports say that the mask wasn't in Iron at all but looked that way because of the colour or something like that......it's been a while since I read on the subject but from what I remember there are records of such a prisoner whose identity was hidden, wasn't allowed to speak, was under constant surveillance, etc but the iron mask itself is debated....Maybe I'm remembering wrong.
@@Lanwarder he did wear an iron mask because the cure of grasse saw him by the public fountain,st mars was giving him water,he almost suffociated in it,so they didn't do it afterwards.
it was velvet mask afterwards
someone once heard it was about the kings marriage inthe 1760s,i think
This ends like all the Atlantis and Holy Grail 'documentaries': "We may never know."
And if he gets a itchy nose???
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He head buds the wall
Fascinating stuff! Can't believe this is still a mystery - thanks for shedding light. I don't personally give a shit about the ads cuz I know how to use the slider on a video player.
I appreciate how he does sponsors, like it's relevant and he clearly believes in it, videos are awesome as always!!
“The Man in the Velvet Masque” just wouldn’t have been quite as stimulating in advertising campaigns….so, sure, I get it…
skip to 6:41 to not watch the Sponsor add
thanks :)
Not all heros wear capes
Yay people being leeches....I guess you hope this channel fails to turn a profit
Thx
+tyler belanger +v5red he has no way to know how many people skipped portions of a video and is paid the same amount, so you just wasted your time
Do one about why the US state of Maryland has such an odd shape. There are a few bits of info out there but I think you could present it much better.
Yeah but nobody cares. Whats that stupid states shapes show
Maybe it was a giant conspiracy...
...to confuse future historians.
"lets get right back into the video*
advert them immediately plays. : |
Ad block is your friend.
You can blame youtube for that.
so you would rather have the ad play in the middle of a sentence?
He was heavily invested into BD/SM, hence the mask and the servant ..
This is a ground breaking discovery, this would mean he actually was of royal blood, hence the desired unorthodox treatment and activities, kept to be secret.
The sound you made when describing your frying computer was spot on!
I absolutely loved the book "The Count of Monte Cristo" & read it several times as a kid. Also thought some of the movies based on the book were pretty fun.
I come from Pinerolo (Pignerol under French rule, in the north west of Italy) and we have a whole festival about the Man in the Iron mask
That's really neat!
No relation to the video, but I'm a fan of Peñarol football team so I absolutely had to say hello to you as you are from that town :)
From what I remember of that story, I always had the feeling Dauger was allowed to serve Fouquet because Fouquet already knew the man's "secret". Prior to his disgrace Fouquet was holding the office of "chancellor of the exchequer" (superintendant des finances), so he must have been private to almost every State secret. And as he was already lucky to have had his life spared, it's unlikely he would have spilled the beans on Dauger. If you want to understand the extent of Fouquet's embezzlment that led him into prison, just check out the "Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte", or better come visit it. It is said the Mirrors Gallery in Versailles had to be extended a couple of meters by Louis XIVth to best his Minister's own castle...
Now as to the identity of the man itself, no clues. There's a constant administrative trail followinfg Saint-Mars and _his_ prisonner from prison to prison, but it's been deliberately obscured. I don't think personnaly it was something as fancy as an unknown brother of the King, but most likely someone who was _supposed_ to be dead already, and kept as an asset in case revealing he was very much alive could prove an advantage. For instance a foreign spy.
i wonder if it concerned the would be queen,sun king wanted to marry a mancini sister
fouquet seduced women in royal court like maintenon and possibly the queen
Wait, the Man in the Iron Mask is a sequel to the Three Musketeers? I never knew that!
Why are so many human foods fatal or otherwise dangerous for dogs?
Likely has to do with millennia of tempering the stomach to handle it, us being a traditionally omnivorous species as where dogs were carnivorous, and I'm sure bacteria in each species gut has something to do with something as they are vastly different.
I started watching these videos because I love history and odd things, but the longer this guys beard gets the more I want to stay and see how long he’ll let it grow 😍😍
Love this channel, but the advert in the middle threw me off and I lost focus on the story. :/
Tbh I'd rather have this than a normal youtube ad in the middle of a video.
Me too, but sponsors help fund this content so there's not much choice. 🙁
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but theres both
Candace Farrell There is a choice. Do it at the beginning or at the end. I get that sponsors are vital, but it detracts from the content and people are likely to stop watching if it becomes a regular thing.
that "spilling coffee on my computer" story sounds made up.
The ad ends at 6:45
The Man in the Iron was important enough to keep him isolated and for some reason, the king didn't just decide to kill.
Has there ever been any thought to exhuming the body?
It would be a disgracful act to dig up a body already buried under the name it's given.
all bodies were disinterred and in catacombs
What if the man in the iron mask wasn't one person, but a role - a symbolic figure like Batman or the unknown soldier? That would explain the mask and going out of the way to keep him alive, right?
Griffith from Berserk. Mystery solved.
Count matthioli driven insane and his valet
Another fact... The man once threw a plate out of the window with a message scratched into it. The peasant who found it handed it into the warder. The only thing that saved the peasant from being executed was the fact that he could not read.
Wow! I wonder what the paper said. Poor guy might have even been kidnapped.
thats was an huguenot that did that.
@@deborahminter6231 that was a plate supposedly,but a wooden bowl
@@PaulRumbold-wk5re makes sense.
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so you support them on patreon then? Literally the only people who have a legitimate complaint are those who do.
@@BlackHearthguard No that's not how this works. Anyone who is a consumer of your content gets a voice on how you advertise to them. If you want people to actually enjoy your shit, it's not hard to listen. Not doing so is exactly how you lose profit and consumers. No consumers = no profit. If someone has a patreon and asks for money that way, they shouldn't also be including this many advertisements in their show. I know plenty of youtubers who don't even give advertisements on every video let alone this many. All of them survive just fine on patreon.
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I love keyboard cowboys like you that think they determine who's opinions are valid. Get a life loser!
@@BlackHearthguard
Spoken like the true keyboard cowboy that you are.😁
Please place add at the end or very beginning, almost left thinking it was over. Keep up the good work.
I want to find out about the London animal cull of WWII.
I would also like to reccomend the anime version of the Count of Monte Cristo
This is the best channel on UA-cam, no question 👏🏻
Ads are whatever. You guys deserve money for all your hard work. But as everyone is saying: find a different way of doing it.
Dino_Spamoni just fucking deal with it
how about fucking no, delta u mannerless fuck
+Dino_Spamoni : If you wish to sermon or preach, then do it by example, something you didn`t do. The people providing this channel can take or consider suggestions, but I doubt that they want to be bossed or bullied. So, state your criticisms correctly, or else just shut up.
There's already an ad in the video, an ad for backblaze
On his end, it was actually smart to put the ad in the middle of the video, because people might be less likely to click off or avoid the ad, rather than having people click off when the ad at the end of the video starts.
Cool!! Great video again, Simon.
thanks for the insightful review of the video
How did you finish watching so fast?
I like to think that Simon isn't reading these things, but memorizes everything.
The way your are doing ads is beyond frustrating. Please do them at the end!
But people don't stick around at the end. Myself concluded.
@@pyrix This doesn't prevent that though. They just skip it in the middle by clicking a few bars over. I do it all the time. I have never watched the ads. There is absolutely no way to force people to watch ads. It reminds me of the dumb choices companies make that end up costing them more than it does to just deal with the problem like everyone else does (Coke shooting themselves in the foot over and over again). You can't stop some things like people skipping ads. Trying to do so only ends up making them resist harder and annoys your base. I'd suggest being transparent and not trying to annoy people intentionally.
Then he wouldn't get paid as much for them numbnut.
0:50 reminds me of that key & peele sketch at the french restaurant
Today I found out how to do a backup.
A backup of what?
The count of monte cristo is my absolute favorite book! I highly recommend it
xBlackDawnx May I ask why? I tried reading it because I LOVED The Three Musketeers, but Count of Monte Christo was just so long and boring for me...
Simon I thought we talked about this ad in the middle of the video already. Didn't we decide it was a bad idea?
It is a great idea. It makes the ad much more valuable and means we get much more content since their revenue increases. If you feel like making massive donations on Patreon, maybe the ads won't be there anymore.
i say they want unskipple ads give up Patreon
Autonomoustoker
As my mother used to say when I tried this tactic on her "you deciding is not the same as "we"".
"we" Did the creators of the video agree with anyone?
@@v5red No it doesn't, people just skip it anyways. It's not hard to just click a few bars over and be right into the video again. So it just annoys people and doesn't force people to watch them. You can't FORCE people to watch ads.
Thanks for this video. The Man in the Iron Mask is one of my favourite novels, although mainly because of its mischievous portrait of Louis XIV and his court.
I liked the doppelganger idea. those poor folks probably caught a whole lot of shit during those days.
He was Leonardo DiCaprio, of course. There, I've saved you 13 minutes and 37 seconds of your life.
no, Robert Downey Jr.
it was John Cena.......
Rao Arslan Shahid explains why no one saw him...
True, there was an Iron Man mask, so technically an iron mask, but the missiles and red paint job are kind of a deal-breaker.
Crimson Halo no, it was the legend 27
People should stop complaining about Simon doing an ad-read during the video.
Sponsorships, like those provided by Backblaze in this example, are an integral part of keeping channels afloat - especially channels like this one that is run by several people.
Yes, I'm aware they have Patreon, but not everyone can or will pledge to that, and therefore it's not a guaranteed source of revenue for a channel putting out the amount of quality content TIFO do, so sponsored ad-reads are usually a more efficient way of bringing in enough money to keep everything rolling on.
UA-cam itself is very difficult at the moment, with older videos earning lower money per ad than newer videos, so it's not like TIFO can even rely on their back catalogue to consistently bring in revenue.
For the time it takes for Simon to do a 30-second ad-read (usually an amount of time dictated by the sponsoring company) you could quite easily check your text messages or twitter or even write a to-do list of what you hope to do with the rest of your day, something productive. It's not like it even lasts that long within the confines of this 13+ minute video.
Please show Simon and the rest of TIFO some respect as creators, who are just trying to earn a living bringing you this free, high-quality content on a daily basis.
Keep doing what you're doing, TIFO. You're doing awesome stuff here!
Thank you for condescending tone and complete disregard of why people have a problem with ads in middle.
Love the Count of Monte Cristo. Only book I have read recreationally
Dumas is interesting just like his father honestly, you gotta do a story on him if you haven't yet
I just wanted to comment before I could possibly have watched the entire video. I'm sure its great and informative.
Is the word felt (as in fabric) related to felt (past tense of feel)? If so, how did that come to be?
If only you had a machine that connected to an entire universe of knowledge...
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Not all heroes wear capes.
Simon’s one tuft of chest hair sneaking out of his shirt stole all my attention
You mean Leonardo DiMacchiato.
7.07 black felt, or black velvet??
(You say felt, subs say velvet....)
I think this person was the only survivor from a crashed alien saucer.
I'm EXTREMELY ashamed to admit that my entire knowledge of this time in history was most definitely ruined [in my childhood] by watching the animated TV series: 'Dogtanian And The Three Muscehounds'!!!
Awesome content! I love your videos.
I can't help but notice that you flail your arms like you're attempting flight.
Love your channel, but ads in the middle of the video are f*ucking annoying.
Try using a ad blocker.
Wich is 100% skippable with a mouse click ✌
The idea that it was his father makes the most logical sense.
Bob ... it was bob.
stop complaining about the ad guys jeez! they need money and it really isnt that bad..
Back blaze sounds like a brand you would own
Re-upload?
This would be a great topic to revisit on Decoding the Unknown
In the middle of the video it turns into a commercial genius
Where is the lovely BGM?????
Subscribed !
You know I kind of Wonder now. why you can't tell how old an anime is by its animation? Cuz it can be a brand new and use an old animation style. To each his own I guess
the king's body double being kept in reserve with his own permission....the perfect servant.
Quite mind-spinning stuff. Keep up with this.
My guess is the lover of the wife of someone important!
There were five books in The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas not three.
Is this Destro?
Based on the non-fiction book "The Black Count" by Tom Reiss, Alexandre Dumas's "The Count of Monte Cristo" was heavily modeled on Dumas's father, who was one of Napoleon's generals in Egypt, and who was captured and held in prison in Italy. You might find that an interesting story to investigate.
I read the comments during the commercial.
I think being some rather fit and handsome servant with at lest a passing resemblance to one of the king's relatives selected to service the queen and provide an heir to the kingdom, Is the most likely theory. He may have very simply been a valet in his regular duties at the palace where he was spotted by the Cardinal or perhaps the Queen and therefore selected for the task.
Any man called upon to serve his country by boinking the queen and providing an heir to his country would certainly be grateful to God and to the king he had helped produce.
If that is the case it seems very likely that the king would have known that the valet was his father.
It's also totally possible that this very same valet was the illegitimate child of some other Noble since keeping Mistresses was not exactly a quiet thing.
It would be quite ironic if the impotent King was actually employing the services of his own illegitimate nephew. Since there is plenty of record of Louie the 12th having Mistresses also.
Being a bastard or son of a bastard even a royal bastard means him serving as a valet would have been totally normal. When bastards were not killed outright or banished from the country, keeping them close to home was the other common option of the era. If that was the case it would seem keeping him around certainly paid off.
problem is prisoner says i was born about 1643 to bastile doctor day before death, when was king born
all theories should start from known facts.
👍!👍! Good job & thanks for knowledge.
There are often ads in the middle of podcasts.
As is said in Australia: Calm your farm!
This man just gave me a tv type commercial in the middle of my UA-cam video
TIFO,
First... regarding your video... As always... interesting and fun. Some of the same old, but some new... keep at it...
On the ad(s)... My only ever dislike of commercial advertisement over the web has been simple. From popups to the random assortment generated and stuck into video placement, they tend to have one thing in common. Third party code... Either through cookies or from other invasive routines, this practice has always sat ill with me as a security risk to my machine in general... And in recent years particularly, it has only been proven outright.
For you to put together an ad-placement inside your presentation, thoughtful enough to avoid all outsider-wares and cookies seems to be a service to me. For that, graciously as possible, I thank you. I think there's still something to be said for creativity (maybe a segway improvement... or even just something laughable to go with the ideal) but I can honestly approve of the practice of your supporting positive sponsors while avoiding outside influxes of unknown code bombarding my computer when I only clicked (in point of fact) to see what it was you had to say on a subject. So whether it was adpocalypse or some other drive that made you post the ad in the first place, I say "good on you"... And "damn the haters"... Pay them no heed as everyone on the web just seems to want everything given freely until the whole system comes crashing down. They either do not understand or do not care that someone still has to do real work and still deserves some real compensation for it to continue building even decent content. :o)
I don't think it's the fact that an ad is present that is annoying people. It's the fact that it's a 50 second ad smack dab in the middle of a video that already had an ad at the beginning that people find annoying.
gnarth d'arkanen What annoys me is the fact that companies in ads, especially the longer ones, are using my WIFI (also electricity) without my permission, for times, up to sometimes 2 minutes. If one is on some sort of timed budget plan, then that ad buy is basically stealing from those the ad is aimed at, which is at least annoying.
gnarth d'arkanen - I'm actually appalled that "Today I Found Out..." actually has a Patreon when they make plenty of money from UA-cam ad revenue AND their sponsors.... Patreon should be reserved for those that *CAN'T* get ad revenue because of UA-cam's strict censoring guidelines.
It's pretty fucked that viewers are ALREADY paying to help support those that actually NEED it...but now these guys (TIFO), who are already raking in the ad/sponsor money, have the nerve to ask us for MORE???
Honey Bee 86, SURE TIFO is just RAKING in the cash... Cash and more cash from the poor under privileged viewers... That's why they have thousands and thousands of little minions on the top of the line computers scouring the world over for information to serve up to you and me daily... Right?
No. There are three... COUNT THEM... Three (3) guys total who actually work on any/all of their presentations. So to have the unmitigated gall to suggest that they don't have any right to ask, remind, bitch, whine, cry, and carry on for revenue improvement is simply asinine. Sorry if you find ad-placement in the middle of presentations annoying. Sorry if you find the excessive length of their ad's or sponsored announcements annoying. BUT if there were no ads, and everyone on YT had originally just paid up to support it, it would have only cost about ten bucks ($10 US) a month per user to do so...
Ad revenues are in serious peril since the "ad-pocalypse" situation which led YT to start the severity of their censorships... I agree that there NEEDS to be a serious push-back on these marketers who want nothing more than to turn YT into Cable TV... But TIFO can't be blamed for seeking just a little better for their own...
It's easy to see a polished and professional looking, "sleek" finished product and just assume it's done by a factory full of paid employees. It's easy to assume it's the work of savvy guys in a full blown studio and they're practically top-level executives who spend more time chasing secretaries or whining about the wine menu at a five-star restaurant than actually doing anything. It's easy to assume Simon is a grand-poobah of super-stars and has women throwing themselves at him on every street corner (have you checked the cancer sections lately?)...But it simply isn't true. They're three guys who have a little technical savvy and worked out this channel over Skype and/or Discord, while they each have separate lives (both professionally and personally).
As for those who face the excruciating censorship? Yes, it sucks. BUT that's an issue to take up with YT. Or maybe, when enough creators have gone to build greater content elsewhere, and just kept their channels on YT to post Vanilla crap to swamp it to death... maybe that's the kind of movement online that would teach the YT exec's a thing or two about why we left Cable for the net in the first place. :o)
gnarth d'arkanen oklo
To the people who always say "but he NEEDS ads to make these videos".
No one is arguing that. Yes he does. Ads are very much necessary.
TWO OR THREE MINUTE LONG ADS THAT ACTUALLY INTERRUPT THE FLOW OF THE CONTENT MID VIDEO ARE NOT. That's totally unnecessary. Tons of UA-camrs get by without doing that. What part of that is difficult to understand?
Your French sounds great Sìmon!One again you've amazed me sir! 👍
lol it was actually terrible
I'm not upset about the ad in the middle at all but I thought this was not allowed under UA-cam advertising guidelines?
Can u do the ad at the start instead? Its wierd if the ad was in the middle
Felt or velvet?? Oh Simon Simon. I need a hero.
I know you have to advertise but can you give us a time stamp to skip or it should be in the beginning or end
On a side note, getting files off a computer is easy. The hard part is deleting them. If you were to take the harddrive out, and smash it with a hammer then light on fire, you MIGHT be able to get rid of the files. Otherwise, just get a usb to harddrive plug for $12 off amazon and pull your own files.
I am confused with the theory explained at 8:40. Simon Whistler said, "Another theory is that he was actually the real father of King Louis the fourteenth. You see, King Louis the fourteenth was quite old at the time of his miraculous birth, but an heir was needed lest Louis the thirteenth's brother, Gaston de Orléans, become King (something certain powerful entities, like Cardinal Richelieu and the Queen herself, would have likely been against for various political reasons). Thus this particular theory states that the Cardinal and Anne arranged for another man to father the child. As with the other theories, though, there is little in the way of actual evidence to back it up but at least it would explain why the prisoner would be so fond of the King, despite that same King having had him imprisoned for all of his life. Of course, would a King really allow his own father to function as a servant, assuming he knew, and if he didn't know, why keep him alive or even imprison him at all?" So who was the supposed child of the prisoner, King Louis the fourteenth, or King Louis the fourteenth's "son", or Kind Louis the thirteenth's "son", or am I just way off? How can King Louis the fourteenth be "quite old at the time of [his own?] miraculous birth" having the prisoner being his father?
Could it actually be "You see, King Louis the THIRTEENTH was quite old at the time of his (Louis XIV) miraculous birth..."? Louis XIII was quite old and thus could not have borne a child (the future Louis XIV), so Richelieu and Anne got hold of another man's child and claimed that this child was borne between her and Louis XIII. If this is true, then this could explain why this man (in the iron mask) would be so fond of the (future) king (Louis XIV). There is another similar alleged conspiracy surrounding the birth of Chinese Emperor Qianlong.
@@ferrarim5p75 thats wrong sun kings father was in 30s,this is quoting dutch progranda which was trying to say sun king is a bastard.
to found out fathers age see wikipedia,report back please
plus prisoners was born about 1643
FYI Dumas was the best author of all time.
It’s bad enough to be locked up in-isolation in prison during the Tudor Period of Europe but in addition to that, having to wear an iron mask that I’m sure was insanely uncomfortable is truly horrific. Personally I don’t think I could have gone through that level of inhumanity.
he wore one on his first transfer,but you die of blood poisoning in about 2 years of wearing it all the time
Simon, you mentioned Voltaire had issues rigging the lottery; my interest is, ”What is the history of Lotteries;” all forms of Lotteries.
God now that someone pointed out his hand talking I can't not notice it.
love that this video is in 60fps
Watching a special on "The Man the Iron Mask," a historian said the the mask was more likely a cloth or similar covering, the book mentioned in here being where the idea of an iron mask came from. Also, the historian said that some documents suggested the possibility that the prisoner chose to wear the mask. Either truth, this has always been an interesting topic for me (excluding DiCaprio's portrayal as it's artistic licence).
Etienne du Jonca’s (the King’s Lieutenant of the Bastille) journal clearly states that the man always wore a mask of black velvet, possibly a “loo” mask, a type of half mask, when being moved around the Bastille. This diary is still in existence, so we know the exact date of the prisoner’s arrival at the Bastille and when he died, the 19th. November, 1703 by the French calendar.
Now one oddity emerges from the info we have on the Mask’s death - his age was then estimated at 45 years, which if at all accurate puts him about 12 years old when arrested in the Dunkirk/Calais area by Vauroy. Quite a bit of St. Mars correspondence with Minister Louvois has survived and is reprinted in several early books on the Masked Man. It lacks any clues about an early-aged person when arrested.
It is time to separate the known evidence still in the French archives from the rest of the fake news which surrounds this story. Our M. d’Oger, d’Auger, Dauger, Danger, (or similar actual name - name spelling in those days was very variable), has to be the prime suspect, but there are others not entirely able to be eliminated, including a valet named La Rivière, and Ercole Mattioli. However if it is not Dauger who died in the Bastille, then where, while in St. Mars hands between Pignerol and the Bastille, did he actually die ? And irrespective of his place of death, what had Dauger (possibly not his real name) done to deserve up to 34 years of imprisonment at enormous cost , when in those days he could easily have been tried, convicted, and executed ?
For anyone really interested in this subject first consult the published books from the early 1800’s onwards, especially those containing items from the French archives. Start with the 1826 book by George Agar Ellis, and finish with books by Paul Sonnino and Peter Curran. Other authors are e.g. Tighe Hopkins, Marius Topin, John Noone, Harry Thompson, A.S. Barnes, and the latest by Josephine Wilkinson. And if you are curious about what Dumas actually knew about our mystery prisoner, then read his “Man In the Iron Mask (an Essay)” his non-fiction research, and not his fictional last Musketeer novel “Ten Years Later”
@@danMdan when a prisoner died in bastile, they gave false names and ages because that was the law in those days.
he did wear an iron mask once ,but he almost suffocalted, so they didn't do that from then on.
interestingly the 2 people trying to spring fouquet from prison approached him,he said leave me alone and told st mars about it,perhaps thought i am being tested by st mars whether i will try to escape
@@PaulRumbold-wk5re Agreed. As i understand it the "steel mask" could have been an invention of St. Mars when coming to St Marguerite island, as the evidence of DeJunca clearly in his own handwriting says a "masque de velours noir", Nov. 1703. And the memory of the Palteau peasants was of an upper face "loo" mask. But after so long away from the world why was it necessary to use any mask by then, on way to the Bastille, and in the Bastille - unless it was just to create the impression of someone who was really no-one. Whatever, do you accept it was the "prisoner from Dunquerque" originally taken to Pignerol by Vauroy in 1669?
@@Wolfe911 The facts have been too long distorted by the writings of Voltaire and Dumas; one with political motives, and t'other by the book selling romances of Dumas.
@@PaulRumbold-wk5re Agreed on that. I think your steel mask may have origin from Voltaire, and the occasion being arriving on St. Marguerite from Exiles. Remember Mattioli was not transferred to St. Marguerite until years later.
So, bascally "nobody actually knows" + "The ruse/Mask" actually served its purpose. Very clever of A. Dumas for using it, really. As with D. Brown's noels, I'm stikcing with the truth, but enjoy the "noveliztion/dramatization" very much. :)
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Just going to spitball my own theory. Just a guy who looked exactly like the king. Couldn’t have someone like that around because of the obvious threat to the throne. Yet an enterprising mind might see that having a body double around would be useful in case the king had need for one... so, lock the gentleman up under strict rules. And take care of him.