Behind Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette Failed Reign I SLICE HISTORY | FULL DOCUMENTARY
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- Опубліковано 24 лют 2024
- A lavish drama-documentary chronicling the final days of the Bourbon dynasty under the ill fated Louis XVI and his Queen Marie Antoinette.
Unlike his highly sexed forebears, it takes Louis seven years to consummate his marriage. And his performance as ruler of France is no more distinguished than his efforts in the royal bed chamber.
The French people are starving but the aristocracy is too busy partying inside the gilded palace of Versailles to take much notice. Louis tries to make a difference but his every attempt at reform is blocked by his greedy relatives. Marie Antoinette gets much of the blame for the excesses of the rich, even if she never uttered the famous words ‘Let Them Eat Cake’.
As he drifts into depression and madness, Louis and his Queen attempt to stave off a revolution. Spoiler alert: they don’t succeed.
Documentary: The Rise and Fall of Versailles - EP3: Louis XVI Countdown to Revolution
Directed by: Thierry Binisti
Production: Les Films d’Ici
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It seems like Louis XVI was actually a pretty decent man who wanted to do right by the people, knowing that his predecessors' overindulgence basically landed on him to have no choice but to make drastic changes to. It also seems like Marie Antoinette actually supported him in this, which means, she likely knew that there would be cutbacks in financial freedom & was on board with what needed to happen to allow France to thrive. Even if the lavish life they lives had to be lessened, she was willing to go along. This also stands to reason why it has since been proven that she did NOT in fact make the statement, "let them eat cake" about the poor & that was some false claim the insurgents used to get as many people as possible thinking & feeling negatively against her as well.
So it's sad that they both ended up getting beheaded, & I think it was really due to the influence & resistance of multiple courtiers & other wealthy, high power individuals, who didn't want to pay taxes.
Excellent summation
Yeah he wanted to be a good King. It just that he did not have the guts stand by his own reform.
Being young and inexperienced with dealing sharks swimming around them they were easy prey. Look at how the necklace scam was set up against Marie Antonette.
Excellent - thank you ❤️☘️🙏🫖😄
Fair presentation
Love the summary
The best physical likeness I have ever seen of Louis XVI ⚜️ was that portrayed by Robert Morley in the black and white film 'Marie Antoinette' (1938). I have never watched it, but I have seen a photograph of him in the film.
You must watch the 1938 MGM ‘Marie Antinoette.’ It is a spectacular recreation of those times.
1989 French film is also so good, it portrays him as an ineffective tool. I think it's free on UA-cam, there are two 3hr parts. If you don't speak French, look for a dubbed version in your language.
As a French, I have watched this movie, the visuals are spectacular. But I'm sorry to say that the Louis XVI portrayal was nowhere close to the real Louis.
Fall from grace, I know the feeling
a tragedy which generated the revolution of hundreds of thousands of deaths the first empire and again hundreds of thousands of deaths
. . . and not to forget the First World War which, in a way, was the completition of the Revolution. I broke out after the revival of the period Louis XVI during the so called Belle Epoque between 1872 and 1914.
@@renatovonschumacher3511 How do you link the French Revolution to the WWI, dear Renato ?
@@heliedecastanet1882 The demands of the bourgeoisie were fulfilled, and in the 19th century there was a balance and mutual symbiosis between the bourgeoisie and the aristocracy (after the revolutionary period after 1848). Both depended on each other. The nobility had the political experience and the savoir vivre, the bourgeoisie had the money. The demands of the revolution had been met. The peak was the period between 1872 and 1914, the so-called "Belle Epoque", which was a kind of reconnection to the age of Louis XVI. Not everyone liked that. Added to this was the social pressure from the proletariat (the "liberated" rural population who were put into the factories by the bourgeoisy). Many had an interest in now “cleansing” society totally. One of the means to achieve this was a major war. In addition, the bourgeoisie's self-confidence had increased and it believed that it no longer needed the nobility. After WW I, the bourgeoisie had emancipated itself and now set the tone together with the proletariat. Everything became different, art, architecture, society, political structures etc. But the nobility was not quite finished yet. This was ensured by WW II and the subsequent Americanism.
This is interesting
46:14 the zoom in on the bust of Louis XIV is a fantastic piece of editing in this series. The person who thought of it will probably never see it but I offer them a shout out nonetheless. :)
If only he had been more decisive and chose to support his people rather than his selfish courtiers, then he could have kept his throne and his head.
He was torn between the people he liked, his traditional upbringing, to be a king who should be an absolute monarch, his inexperience, the pressure of the nobility and the pressure of the third Etat.
@@renatovonschumacher3511 he should have been decisive. It seems he was unaware that if you live a life of wealth and priviledge, you have to give something of equal value in return. In his case, it is ensuring hos people that they don't starve and have a future.
His wife knew what was going on outside the gates of Versailles but chose to do nothing and instead escape to the Petit Trianon.
Ignorance is never an excuse.
@@irawilliams343 With respect I want to tell you that you seem to have very little knowledge about their personalties, their good intentions and the circumstances they lived in. Consider the political pressure, the pressure of the strict court life in Versailles (Schönbrunn in Vienna was different) and the intrigues. Also consider their young age (she was only a teenager when she had to marry Louis, who himself was totally inexperienced as they both were not brought up to become King and Queen. They were not intended for that). Before making your know-it-all judgements, you should look more into their biographies and from different sources
@@renatovonschumacher3511 they had their chances to help the people and they kept blowing it all off.
@@irawilliams343 Obviously, you have not the faintest idea ! ! But, never mind, you are by far not the only one.
Quand tu craches dans les airs, ça te revient toujours dans face
Louis and Marie probably had issues because he was well endowed and they engaged in no foreplay so it was painful for her.
Over simplified and not very accurate. e.g. The nobility were traditionally exempt from tax but by the reign of Louis XVI they did, in fact, pay some taxes. It is true that taxation fell disproportionately on the backs of the Third Estate (everyone who wasn't either aristocrat or clergy).
Louie, the 16th had erectile dysfunction and a doctor had to come in and correct it for him. He had things that were clogged so to speak in layman's terms.
The Monarchy was in debt from the time Louis VIIII built Versailles. The Nobles paid no tax. A lot of money was used to help the American Revolution. Marie Antoinette was an enemy Austrian. Who was maligned constantly for being adulterous and overspending. How could it not end in revolution?
Sorry, Louis XIV.
I strongly believe it would have happened to anyone next in line.
Really sad what happenedd to them both. RIP.
The nobility did not want to pay taxes and they were the lords of the estates who ruled the common poor people and so they were the cause of the down fall of everything! The oligarchy had become extreme,and the problem was a lack of communication and sharing resources from the rich to help the poor. Their king was trying hard to at least make the nobles pay taxes but he should have communicated more himself with the poor and even used some of his own money to help the poor and been stronger and set his military on the nobles and on the rebels of the third estate,and so he was too weak militarily except for helping America and that was great.Then he had had a great military and he just didnt use it much within france where it was needed against those rebels.
Considering that it is thanks to Louis XVI that America won its Independance, I would hardly call his "a failed reign" - not by a long shot!
Absolutely! If the 13 colonies hadn’t had the backing from France during the Revolutionary War they most probably would’ve lost to England. I also appreciate the fact that Louis XVI that was actually a family man and apparently faithful to his wife.
@@monicacall7532 oui je pense que c était un homme bon et intègre et sa triste fin me brise le cœur
He failed to reign his country.
Very true!
“Slice History” of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette? Very funny.
If it had been up to me, the first thing that I would do is get rid of those annoying hangers-on ( commonly referred to as the courtiers ). How the hell the King put up with those waspish & gossip spreading idiots is beyond me. I dare say whatever scandals the common people were saying were in all probability started from inside the palace by those scandal mongers, that seemed to be their only purpose in their sad & privileged lives....well most of them at any rate.
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So sad
Unfortunately the world looks the same today 😮 rich people are still put us not so rich doing hard work but still have to pay taxes that hit us very hard compared to the rich 😠
lol. It's the state fucking everyone over.
I m sorry for them
En tant que française,j ai beaucoup apprécié ce documentaire vu par une chaîne anglo saxonne ! Bon travail ❤
Merci beaucoup! ☺Ce documentaire fait partie d'une série de trois documentaires, les deux autres épisodes publiés sur nos chaines devraient aussi vous plaire: ua-cam.com/video/m8fF7nlUZWI/v-deo.html , ua-cam.com/video/UhkeNM0Md1U/v-deo.html
There are some men who are shy about that thing but 7 years maybe it just took her long time to get pregnant
Wrong Prof. Colin Jones, totally WRONG ! Louis XVI did NOT WANT to be an absolute monarch , and he did NOT WANT to live up to the style of Louis XIV - as YOU falsly say in the documentary "The Rise and Fall of Versailles". How can a professor be so totally wrong ? ? ? He was EXPECTED to be so (this is something totally different ), and he was also terribly afraid of this. He wanted to rule in a way which is popular - here you are right, yes. He and Marie Antoinette (from the moment she grew out of her carefree teenager years) were - in a way - among the first revolutionaries. In here lies their tragedy. HE loved the people, and SHE wanted reforms and more thrift, and with her reforms, she attracted a lot of hostilities at Court - a Court which was also very much different from the Court in Vienna, where lightheartedness and happiness reigned.
Sorry, but Louis XVI had always considered himself as an absolute monarch. He never rejected the political theories about the divine right and the absolutism. Absolutism doesn't mean "arbitrary" or "dictatorial". Absolutism means that the source of power lays in one single source : the monarch. So, an absolute monarch can perfectly "love" the people and do his best for their happiness. An example : it is from his own power that Louis XVI decided to give to the French Protestants a civil status. He had no need of the Estates General.
@@heliedecastanet1882 Thank you for "teaching" me basics. Are you a historian, too ? Is your family also connected to the royal history of France ? Were your ancestors also familiar with the circumstances at the court in Versailles ? Are you familiar with their letters and diaries ? If so, you are kindly invited to join my discussion with Prof. Colin Jones - which of course does not take place here on the comment pages.
@@renatovonschumacher3511 Thank you very much for your kind answer.
These are the answers to your questions :
1/ No, but I read a lot 🙂
2/ Yes
3/ Yes
4/ Yes
And to your invitation :
Thanks a lot, but no.
Have a good day !
@@heliedecastanet1882 Very interesting, dear Helié de Castanet, as there are so many "yes" of yours, we seem to have a lot in common.
Thank God I like Hollywood tacky 😂
Did the Capet family not flee to Varennes? Recognised as Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette and taken to Paris??
I wish France was a Monarch today.
Its such a shame its not anymore.
The Americans weren't establishing a democracy but a republic. re: the description of Ben Franklin in the video. We have a democratic-republic now as a result of changes to the structure of state government and constitutional amendments. The whim of the people was and still is a serious concern. We favor rule of law not a rule of the mob. That's what happened in France to poor Louis XVI and look what happened: mass murder, atheism, social collapse and then empire.
Nothing changes in Monarchy. The British Monarchy does not pay taxes either in 21st Century.
This film only shows the Republican point of view, and there is no royalist point of view.
For example: here almost not a word was said about the queen’s charity and the adoption of children, the construction of children’s homes at the queen’s expense.
I agree. They do humanize her more in this documentary. There's another documentary about her time in prison that's really compelling. I feel like it has shifted a lot of people's feelings about her after watching it.
@@IDHAGAVENOIDEA L'Autrichienne 1990 ? this ? A very good movie. If you haven't watched it, I recommend watching it.
@@vollhov2370 Oh yes, I most certainly will! I recommend the 1989 film "The French Revolution"; the acting is superb, and Jane Seymour's portrayal is particularly captivating.
The scholars in this video series are sound, but the visuals are Hollywood tacky.
😂
I've seen worse.
Do better than
Picky picky picky. Enjoy it as it is. I enjoy the historic value and not the costumes. I wasn’t there so I can’t comment
They were tacky back then. With the high hairstyles and the way they dressed. And the men with the powered wigs, and over the top clothing. The visuals are accurate, and I love them. ❤q
James fox said he saw Louis XVI hunting. He said he looked like a hog on horseback. Poor representation in this film. He was known for his gluttony.
He was queer and she was lesbian..
You have absolutely no idea abot the facts. So you had better shut up.
you escaped to the psychiatric hospital
This statement could be right. But she wasn't a lesbian for sure. In the end we will never know their truth. They took it in death.
@@moondrop3031 OF COURSE we know the truth - very much so !
All that revolution just to have another emperor 😆
Who eventually married Marie Antoinette’s niece lol
Very possible. It used to happen.