British Reacts To: 'Cabinet Battle #2' - Hamilton Broadway Musical & Animatic
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What's even more disrespectful about Hamilton's line "Lafayette's a smart man, hell be fine" is that Lafayette actually was in trouble. Even though he proposed freedom for France, there was a widespread movement of killing off royalty and nobility. Lafayette was a member of the nobility, and his actions in America as well as his drafting a French Declaration with Jefferson made him a target for radicals. As leader of the royal National Guard, he was held responsible when the king and queen managed to escape, even though he retrieved them just a few days later. Led by Robespierre, the people called for Lafayette's execution. He had to flee for his life, was captured and held in prison for several years, and didn't get out until Napoleon pardoned him. However, Lafayette wouldn't swear allegiance to the new government, so Napoleon sold Lafayette's property and revoked his citizenship. Eventually both were restored, but Lafayette didn't even get an invite when Napoleon held a memorial service honouring George Washington.
Lafayette eventually returned to visit America and was hailed as a hero. He was even offered the position of dictator of France, which he declined. Now he's known as the Hero of Two Worlds.
No thanks to Hamilton, though.
Fun fact: Lafayette proposed the red, white, and blue that would eventually symbolize France. The red and blue were the colours of Paris, along with the white of royalty.
And here I was, thinking to suggest a piece by piece reaction to Les Mis, next. Obviously it is set much later in the French Revolution and it’s a traditional musical, not the genre bending hip hop masterpiece that is Hamilton, but it does throw some history that can be helpful for unintentionally ethnocentric US peeps.
I thought that it was brave to admit you didn’t have the familiarity with French history that some of us might have expected, but then, why would you?
Thanks for the brief history redux, commenter whose name I cannot reference w/o losing my own comment. I did not know any of this about Lafayette, but now I know.
@@happycamper6298 les mes doesn’t take place during the French Revolution. It actually follows an ill faded rebellion that happened about 30 years after the revolution called the June rebellion.
Hi, Xavier! This is one of the most amazing numbers in the musical. The lines about King Louis being "super dead" ... 😆 ... but brings up the problem America had after the French Revolution. Lafayette was indeed French.
I honestly had no idea the King died .. or that there was even a King of France at the time! Turns out this is pretty good for learning things here and there
Have you heard of Napoleon?
The king was indeed beheaded during the French Revolution, it was a historically bloody affair with a lot of people getting beheaded by guillotine
Jefferson: The people are leading
Washington: The people are rioting, there's a difference
Me: technically....the Colonies rioted too
You probably looked this up and know this already but, just in case:
Lafayette was a Marquis. He ran away from home at 16 or 17 to join the military over his family's objection. Eventually he went to America to help in the Revolutionary War. Over the course of yhe War, he was a crazy and brave fighter. He also became very close to Washington and was treated as a surrogate son by Washington. Lafayette's oldest son was actually named after Georgs Washington Lafayette. Later, Lafayette returned to France during the French Revolution and was even one of Marie Antoinette's guards when she was under house arrest.
Hey! Im binge watching all your hamilton vids and i thought u stoped doing then until i saw this one. Cheers!
King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette were indeed arrested and then beheaded in the French Revolution in 1793.
Xavier, I’m so happy you are back with more videos. Please keep them coming!! 😀
Marquis de Lafayette was very much French, part of the aristocracy and military. He was dubbed the Hero of Two Worlds. The treaty with France was enacted through him 6 years before the French Revolution and beheading of King Louis ....XVI? XVI right? And Marie Antoinette (who didn't say let them eat cake).
He returned to France (forget the exact year, it was shortly before the beheadings of the monarchs I think) and he and Jefferson drafted a French Bill of Rights, however there was a year of the Revolution known as the terror wherein everyone who was suspected of being against the revolution was executed.
Lafayette was thought to be against the Revolution so he fled to Austria where he was arrested despite claiming American citizenship (Marie Antoinette was Austrian btw). His wife and 2 daughters were arrested as well and his wife's family was executed. Eventually they were exiled to Denmark. His son was safe - George Washington Louis Gilbert de Motier, and if you think thats a mouthful, Lafayette's name was Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert de Mortier - as he'd been left with Washington. He was just 3 years older than Phillip Hamilton.
Napoleon's reign, I believe, is what allowed Lafayette safe passage home to France. He was the ... elected? Leader from 1799-1804, and 1804 became Emperor. Lafayette was prominent in the previous monarchy, under the French First Republic (lasted a year for him, was snuffed out by the Empire), and the return of the monarchy which lasted.... 2 monarchs? He served under the last, Louis Phillipe.
So Lafayette had a wild ride of a life.
Lafayette was the French immigrant that the actor who plays Jefferson played in act 1
YAY XAVIER
the french revolution was very different to the american revolotion.
while the revolution succede there was no clear leader unlike america wich prospered with washington