This was back when the History Channel had at least SOME legitimacy. Now it's all rednecks, UFOs, retarded conspiracies, and Bigfoot. I want HISTORY not ignorance and conjecture.
@HarbingerOfBattle That's why we have the new channel "History 2". They didn't want to loose their BIG MONEY makers so they moved all the "history" programming over to the new channel and left the "Red-Neck" and Pawn shop programs on the old channel.
@Bullettube may I point out that the majority of the video Louis and Mary are 20, so using adults as actors is actually more fitting. If they used young actors for the minute or so they are conveyed as 15, they would have to switch to new ones right away, which would be expensive and confusing to the audience.
My problem with the History channel is how often they miss a chance to accurately portray history. Instead of using a 15 year old boy and a 14 year old girl, they use adults. They portray Robespierre as having his long hair cut before being executed, but in previous scenes he has short hair. Instead of showing a filthy Paris with it's narrow streets full of filthy people they show Paris as it appeared after being rebuilt. I'm nitpicking I know, but future generations will need the truth.
Does this documentary paint the Revolution in a positive light? I am in university and I keep reading about how great it was, etc., how it was a product of the Enlightenment, but I am looking at an opposing point of view and am interested in watching this documentary. Is it worth it or will it praise it as well?
@4848613 Well, this one does paint Robespierre, the leader of the revolution, as bloodthirsty which he was, but I think it is mostly unbiased. The revolution was positive, but in the end it failed and Napoleon came to power as a dictator.
How can it be an "age of enlightenment" when even the non-aristocrats were being unfairly hung; also including many rich individuals though dealing with the monarchy had nothing whatsoever to do with with the politics of France, which was completely the job of the monarchy. Also servants who held ordinary jobs and equivalent to the status of those on the outside also got the guillotine, and that too without a PROPER TRIAL.
What positive impact did Robespierre have apart from his political ideas? Yes he helped form the Declaration with the ideals for France but did he actually do anything else?
@xNaN3x He did and he didn't...he helped pass laws about divorce and illegitimate children as well as the Law of 22 Prairial which made it easier to execute traitors of the Republic in 1794 BUT he held very little political party. Unfortunately he has come to be a symbol of what was wrong with the Revolution, when it reality he didn't do a whole lot. (I'm writing my thesis on him...)
@unenlightenedshadows Ahh, cause my history teacher was trying to give me the impression that he did more than have the revolutionary ideas that served to encourage the people of france. I suppose however that he did contribute towards the declaration that forms the basis of french law today... thanks for your help :)
So lets see, France was a monarchy up until 1792 correct? And then they had a "Republic" until 1799 when Napoleon seized power and established the TRUE republic (without corruption, mass-murder and political plotting against each other).
And in 1804 France becomes an Empire with Napoleon as Emperor until 1814 when he abdicates. Monarchy is then established for a year until Napoleon returns as emperor in 1815 and after that, France is a monarchy AGAIN...
i think this is good historic example of what happens when u go against the authority figures, there was 2 much bloodshed.. the french people should work with the king and hammer out a compromise but alot of these revolution guys were inspired by marx
@blurtoutbert well the King was given a chance to head a constitonal, democratic goverment but he hated liberty so much he fled his palace Versailes and tried to flee itno Austria. I'm not defending the "Regin of terror" it was to bloody your right, but the king is hardly the most sympathetic figure in the action..
@dalecampbl6 - I'm not sure who is more obnoxious, the justin bieber lovers/haters who leave their message all over you tube, or you people who leave your obnoxious message all over youtube - who do you think is more obnoxious between you two?
wordt het niet eens tijd voor een nederlandse revolutie tegen de regering en al hun belachelijke regels. laten ze een land gewoon regeren in plaats van te verknooien
@dalecampbl6 We need to be much more careful how we go about it though! The French could have saved themselves a lot of bloodshed had they been more organized and one minded about everything.
wtf????? ok who was the 15 year old who married the 14 year old and didnt the grandfather die already? He died again? who died and what what whatty is going on?
@iWriteUinMyDeathNote King Louis the XV's grandson, is Louis Cappe who was 15 years old when he got married and later becomes King Louis XVI. Marie Antoinette is his wife who was 14 at the time. She later becomes really selfish and she spends all her money for clothing and accessories while the rest of the country is in great debt.
No, the grandfather didn't die yet. The video just didn't talk much about him. He died of smallpox, an unpopular ruler and that's when Louis XVI comes to power.
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@XxRusty96xX Very interesting and super biased documentary. Do not believe everything the history channel plays. A lot of what they say here is not true about the monarchy.
StarQualityWins is a deluded moron who keeps voting up his comments. What a loser! Take a look at the entire comment thread. He makes shit up time and time again about history and gets corrected again, and again.. and again... Sweet jesus, what a crazy ideologue moron. This is the only quality right wingers excel at, revisionism.
@SheBlindedMeWScience No, others have heard similar and vote my comments up. I think anyone who's never heard anything at all about these theories that I believe to be true, are the deluded ones. StarQualityWins knows what's right.
@SheBlindedMeWScience Yes: the comment thread is sadly indicative; the user name suggests successful motion pictures and the obvious talent appears to be audacious invention, rather than historical credibility. It is doubtful if advice formerly given to take heed of evidence or seek employment as a gifted script writer will be followed but, on a happier note perhaps, it would be churlish of us not to at least nominate a vicarious award to Star for acquiring a topical background knowledge :-)
'Schlub' I loce that word! In regards to Loius Capet, like so many before him, he inherited a kingdom that was already a mess, and was not capable of cleaning up his predecessor's mess.
Louis XVI was merely this tubby and boring individual becuase he sat in his palace all day, drinking Stella and listening to Snoop Dogg play his revolutionary rap tunes!!
@raskinman If that were true, France would have been taken over the day after his grandfather died, rather than 1789 when it was taken over internally by 13 men parading as "revolutionaries".
besides that one has to agree that these 13 men did a justifiable act in executing the royal pigs. If only we had 13 men that have the power to teach our Monarchy a few 'sharp' lessons
Robespierre used tabloid lies to sway the people. Those who believed the lies were incited to riot. Those who could see through him were threatened with barbarism. Those who complained justly, were simply worried about the financial state of France and needed answers. The faux "national assembly" prevented the people from getting answers by blocking their participation in the Third Estate. They permitted no communication, only the spread of lies. It was a hostile take-over and not a revolution.
The history of this great revolution has an inspiring impact on the world today, but the king did an awful job at controlling the economy so all in all history is cool :0
@zcosm2 he did cuz he was just 15 never told.. he never had any tutering from his farther? how can you expect todo an exam without gudience... you can't because it's just like controlling an economy........ never the less history is never awful.. never a mistake ..what we did as humans on this earth bought the best for genarations like us to come and learn from it...
The People were in truth, fighting NOT The Monarchy but Robespierre and Napoleon's Violent, Forceful Take-Over, which has been called "The Reign of Terror". While it's true that they soured the publics' opinion of The Monarchy with tabloid lies and fired up some crowds to the state rioting with speeches based on lies, there was no real revolution. The People were fighting to end The Reign of Terror. "The Women's March" was a tabloid lie. Both genders were incited by speeches to storm Versailles.
They wanted a country ruled by themselves, where everyone was given equality. They wanted no royals or aristocracy. It would have been a good plan, apart from the fact that thousands of people died for it.
@annie10103 Yeah I was thinking the Austrians had to bear embarrasment for certainly ruining the system. I thought just attend your people and have standards considering this could happen again. The last fault I believe it was the age of the rulers. I was told this story long time ago surely there are some details to recatch.
I meant more of 'the terror' than anything else. I mean, as it says in the documentary, the people of the revolution were falling victim to it themselves. Not to mention there were children as young as fourteen dieing on the guillotine.
@annie10103 ah yes the illnes of the eighteenth century was defined ill advised. Do you believe she would drunkly say 'eat cake' to them as much as she was a gambler. We can't point too negatively at history. I am sure she confessed her God in regards to deficits.
Répondre à cette vidéo... They want bread! The Seven Years' War and then the participation of France in the American Revolutionary War alongside the insurgents have emptied the box of the state. Then for several years in a row, France is striking the weather causes poor harvest! All this puts the country bankrupt and the people on the brink of starvation! Added to that the Enlightenment ideas of freedom and equality and this is the revolution!
@espoire1757 It wasn't weather, how could only farms have bad weather? The farmers were using a fertilizer that was bad. The soil was depleted and the crops had to be rotated. It wasn't the King's fault, tabloids exaggerated. The Monarchy predicted financial improvement within the year, due to returns on their American investment. There were to be new opportunities where French citizens could take jobs helping to establish French-American states, in exchange for board and passage and modest pay.
@StarQualityWins Iceland, 1783: The Laki volcano, which triggered the French Revolution! So we named him in France at the time after the storming of the Bastille: "volcano of the Revolution"
A distance of 25 km, there are 130 craters émirent 14 billion m3 of basaltic lava, hydrofluoric acid and sulfur dioxide, from 1783 in 1784, causing the largest volcanic eruption of historic times, with consequences disastrous for Iceland and the very large weather disturbances in Europe. "
The ash covered the island, and 50% to 80% of farm animals died. The famine that followed decimated 20% of the Icelandic population. In summer 1783, an anticyclone centered powerful and lasting effect on the North Atlantic sent the smoke to the rest of Europe should know that "an estimated 122 million tons of sulfur dioxide were emitted into the atmosphere,
the equivalent of three times annual industrial emissions in Europe and the equivalent of an eruption like that of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 all three days. The emission of sulfur dioxide coinciding with unusual weather conditions caused a thick fog sulphide that spread throughout Western Europe, causing thousands of deaths during 1783 and winter 1784. "
The years following the eruption of Laki in 1783 were marked by extreme weather, including droughts and harsh winters,
since said that the bread and meat froze on the kitchen table and corbels flight. We saw an accentuation of the Little Ice Age. The squall line thunderstorm that passed through France from south to north in the summer of 1788, destroyed nearly all crops in the country. It weighed 10 pounds hail (5 kgs).
A cloud of dust covered the 2 / 3 of France and was deposited in part on the ground.
The situation was so desperate farmers that the revolution broke out in 1789. These changes in climate and the volcano Laki are perhaps not the only cause, but historians agree that they had considerable influence in the political events that ended the monarchy.
The Monarchy had answers: 1. Financial returns were projected from their loans to America 2. The Royal Court was never formally addressed about the farmers' prognosis and Robespierre BLOCKED the peoples' concerns from being heard. As a result, charity funds went untapped. 3. Tax increases were exaggerated in tabloids, and were also temporary. 4. Focus on USA inspired Louis XVI and Marie to shift toward Constitutional Monarchy. It was they and NOT faux "revolutionaries" who got that ball rolling.
I find the debate about whether the Revolution was caused by hunger or tabloid inflammation a little trite. Evidently there were many reasons, but as a monarchy in charge of a nation, if you allow ANY people to go hungry, then you're planting the seeds of your own destruction.
Obviously the public was influenced by the newspapers, obviously many of the revolutionary leaders had selfish reasons. But would a man really risk his health in an angry mob if he wasn't angry about something real?
What evidence is there to back this documentary, that WAS NOT born in the words (lies) of 13 men? The enlightenment had already been going on for decades; Voltaire died in 1778. This event in no way triggered an elightenment. How could the French People including the poor, declare Marie Antoinette an Icon celebrate her presence, thus her initial fame, yet within a few years denounce her as "Ice Queen Demon"? Tabloid lies and propaganda is how. Marie had exhibited only grace, etiquette and honor.
All I'm going to say it was sick how when Marie Antoinette was on trail that they accused her of asulting her son :/ All she wanted to be was a mother :)
America did know at that time that Robespierre had wrestled the plans of Louis XVI away from him. Louis and Marie w/Parliament had plans for making American-inspired restructural democratic changes in France albeit w/Monarchy in tact. Jefferson, George Washington and Benjemen Franklin DID know that the faux "National Assembly" was campaigning with stolen plans. They wanted America to believe that the idea of Monarchy had to go regardless and that they wanted an elected president--it wasn't true.
After Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Parliament, Rochembeau, and all French Government were chased out by the madman Robespierre posing as a revolutionary, using the force of gullible people that he fired up with lies to incite anger and hopelessness; Once France was lost to Terrorists, and then Napoleon, The United States remained nuetral, and privately withdrew from all relations w/France, as Washington did not want to work with Robespierre nor Napoleon, and he never supported the violence.
dont you just love it people? one says "i have no formal education in history nor any real knowledge or formal sources of reference, but youre wrong" and the retort?" No dude I have no formal education, no real knowledge nor formal references but youre the one whos wrong" and yet they both think they know better than an expert proferssors who have decades of research into the subject under thier belts- well of course!
The Third Estate General Assembly was a meeting scheduled by Louis XVI of his own accord. Traditionally held as a "town hall" with King and the people themselves present to voice all concerns, hear future plans. It was meant to help the decision process. 12 men alone, elected themselves "National Assembly" stating that they would speak for the people. This means that THEY and NOT the people would be the Third Estate, thus preventing public participation. The Tennis Court Oath NEVER occurred.
There were Noble and Royal charities for the poor with enough combined funds to bring relief, and were available to the public. Why weren't they tapped into? Because the faux "National Assembly" didn't truly seek solutions and lied about formally addressing the Royal Court regarding the peoples' needs. They wanted to take over France, NOT help the people. They only worked to isolate Versailles from understanding what was happening 10 miles away in Paris. Marie wasn't detached, only uninformed.
Robespierre used talk and tabloids to initiate revolt as a tool for internal take-over. He lied to the people claiming it would take 10 years for improvements. The Monarchy predicted improvement within the year. Louis XVI was working with his Ambassador, Thomas Jefferson to write the French Constitution of his own accord. France was already a sister country to the Democratic movement. The people didn't initiate this event but were used by Robespierre, for without riots take-over was impossible
@StarQualityWins The idea that Jefferson would be "working to write the constitution" of France with her Monarch without informing anyone, including his own Secretary of State, is ridiculous and incredible. As you have been corrected, several times in these posts, American independence was not a "democratic movement" and the word appears nowhere in the Declaration nor the Constitution. These facts are not only self evident but supported by abundant testimony, and you have no contrary evidence.
@elrjames777 Jefferson was advisor, not writer. No need to slant my statements--typical. France wanted to make their Constitution comparable to America's with certain differences, as Louisiana was already complying with American constitutional law but without slavery. Louis XVI had the intelligence to work this out of his own accord w/ his newly assembled Parliament and Marie Antoinette. The French Monarchy had already planned a shift to Modern Constitutional Monarchy and commisioned a new flag.
@StarQualityWins The lost opportunity for Louis and Marie is poignant and your tale has romantic value; it is an appealing alternative history, but you misleadingly present it as fact; it lacks supporting evidence and is often contradicted by documents. Also, although you engage topical interest, presenting an alluring backdrop to events with detailed embellishment, you are wasting your history fable writing talents with u tube squabbling; you could make a ton of money on a novel or film script
@StarQualityWins My gosh ! you are wasted man. It will be funny if it wasn't so sad, you act like you are educated but my god you know nothing about french history and your comments are an insult for every french's history student. "They commisioned a new flag" LOL What a lot of bullshit !
@42Connect Marie Antoinette was the true force behind Democracy in France and the true helper of George Washington. True, real, positive, humane Democracy was thwarted by Robespierre, his faux "national assembly", Napoleon, and their faux "revolution" aka riots incited by lies. The things that the faux revolutionaries stole credit for had already been planned or were under way, at the hand of the Sovereign: Fact. France was set to do about 80% of the original American Democracy. Napoleon did 5%.
@StarQualityWins You are a liar and/or an idiot ! And paranoic too ! Do you really believe this nonsense ? Thomas jefferson wrote the French constitution, wow , and with louis XVI but of course ! was the phantom of the opera with them ? (I am just curious) you are good for the mental house if you believe this crap.
The only other possible reason my research ever turned up was Paine's anti-clerical views. However, as the Church had oppressed the French populace so terribly, I would imagine the new governing body would be sympathetic to Paine's opinion. Paine's writings in France were supportive of the Revolution, but they would not have remained supportive of the methods in the Terror. I merely restate the reason for imprisonment given by Paine's biographers, not "Conspiracy Theories."
A brilliant documentary!- the French Revolution has to be the most significant event in World history. The way it introduced the enlightenment era, the end to feudal rule and the rise of democratic principles- the foundations of todays society. However much of a tyrant Robespierre may have been, he was undoubtedly still an incredibly talented man. His power of oratory, his politcal mastermind and the way he could influence anyone through words. Like Cicero, Shakespeare and Churchill- Robespierre
¨Prince Louis Capet? Wtf, are you talking about? The name Capet was given to the royal family when they resigned as monarchs in 1791! The Capet family had once ruled france in the 15th or 14th century but were exstinct.. Louis correct name was Louis Auguste de Bourbon!
@Bottebuh you're wrong amigo! The Capetians, also called Maison de France, rulled France from 987 to 1848, except during the revolution and the napoleonian era.
Louis XVI was indeed a Bourbon, but the Bourbons are a sub-branch of the Capets, therefore capetians as well
@selecto16 no your wrong since we just learned in school today that it was bourban, plus it says in this video it was bourban either that or the textbook.
@Bottebuh The DIRECT line of Capet family came to an end in 1328! The Bourbons may have been a sub-branch of The Capetians but it was the Bourbons who ruled France, and therefore they we're called so!During the French Revolution, when France was declared a republic, Louis was given the name "Citizen Louis Capet" a name which implied that the Bourbons had been illegitimate usurpers all along. The king protested that Capet was not his name, though it had been that of some of his ancestors.
We watched this in class. I don't really have to watch it again, but it's interesting, and it can't hurt.
(and I have too many feelings about how tragic Robespierre's story is.)
Bramblestar427 2 days ago
Please let them eat cakes
chevaliercourageux71 3 days ago
stupid ass people... do they understand that marie antoniettes spending couldn't have effected the gross income of the citizens?!
littlerosettes 1 week ago
@littlerosettes why do you say that? can you please explain?
omgblackroses123 1 week ago
7:06 'Young couple'? LOL, they're supposed to be 14-16. Marie looked 20 and Louis looks 40.
whatevr192 1 week ago
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evandergeld 2 weeks ago
I am glad the history channel took a break from filming WW2 porn for a few hours.....
MrAntineocon 2 weeks ago
olympiad:S
thetuxter 2 weeks ago
i watched this for grade 10 history and now 4 years later i'm watching it again for university. thank god for the history channel!
friesenang 2 weeks ago
The girl who played Marie is beautiful :D
I keep rewatching this documentary, I have a test in 7 weeks.
Ima nerd:o
LadyAniee 2 weeks ago
Being admired in your marriage bed.. oh dear.
wasilaify 3 weeks ago in playlist The French Revolution
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what is the name of the documentary??????
arannya67 3 weeks ago
FUCK oligarchy and kleptocracy !!!
adiratus 4 weeks ago
thanks for posting this..i'm not here because of a exam
happycrawlingmaid 1 month ago
ok history here i come
23ilovemusicforever 1 month ago
ok history exam, im ready for u now
beatlemaniaman 1 month ago
This was back when the History Channel had at least SOME legitimacy. Now it's all rednecks, UFOs, retarded conspiracies, and Bigfoot. I want HISTORY not ignorance and conjecture.
HarbingerOfBattle 1 month ago 27
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Don't forget "Pawn Stars." (-_-)
AgApE010 2 weeks ago 2
@HarbingerOfBattle That's why we have the new channel "History 2". They didn't want to loose their BIG MONEY makers so they moved all the "history" programming over to the new channel and left the "Red-Neck" and Pawn shop programs on the old channel.
xusmcguy 2 days ago in playlist CORRECTED French Revolution Documentary (History Channel)
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Graham6762 1 month ago
@Graham6762 It's a war between France and Great Britain, just before the american revolution. French and Indians never made wars
selecto16 1 month ago
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Graham6762 1 month ago
anyone know a good documentary for democracy and the english civil war? :D
Windy2468 1 month ago 2
@Windy2468 I do know, Cromwell and King James
selecto16 1 month ago
@Windy2468 If you want a good documentary on the American Civil War I would recommend the Ken Burns documentary, The Civil War.
HarbingerOfBattle 1 month ago
haha I love how all the "related videos" are about the french revolution, except for a completely irrelevant one about deep throating
onthevergeofneon 1 month ago
@Bullettube may I point out that the majority of the video Louis and Mary are 20, so using adults as actors is actually more fitting. If they used young actors for the minute or so they are conveyed as 15, they would have to switch to new ones right away, which would be expensive and confusing to the audience.
onthevergeofneon 1 month ago
My problem with the History channel is how often they miss a chance to accurately portray history. Instead of using a 15 year old boy and a 14 year old girl, they use adults. They portray Robespierre as having his long hair cut before being executed, but in previous scenes he has short hair. Instead of showing a filthy Paris with it's narrow streets full of filthy people they show Paris as it appeared after being rebuilt. I'm nitpicking I know, but future generations will need the truth.
Bullettube 1 month ago
i have a history final tomorrow on the french revolution, WW1, WW2. i never bothered to read, but i sure don't mind watching.
VelvetVirgo 1 month ago
Sorry, looking *for* an opposing point of view.
4848613 1 month ago
Does this documentary paint the Revolution in a positive light? I am in university and I keep reading about how great it was, etc., how it was a product of the Enlightenment, but I am looking at an opposing point of view and am interested in watching this documentary. Is it worth it or will it praise it as well?
4848613 1 month ago
@4848613 Well, this one does paint Robespierre, the leader of the revolution, as bloodthirsty which he was, but I think it is mostly unbiased. The revolution was positive, but in the end it failed and Napoleon came to power as a dictator.
1Historygenius 1 month ago
the "most glorious" ??? it was the europe s garbage
arecccccc 1 month ago
Is this video by the history channel?
ozio1010 1 month ago
ROBESPIERRE WAS NOT IN THE CONSIERGE....DO YOUR GOD-DAMN FACT CHECKING HISTORY CHANEL!
unenlightenedshadows 1 month ago
i can't believe the courtiers watched them while they had sex. :P
dancergrl126 1 month ago
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ErisQuodSum02 1 month ago
How can it be an "age of enlightenment" when even the non-aristocrats were being unfairly hung; also including many rich individuals though dealing with the monarchy had nothing whatsoever to do with with the politics of France, which was completely the job of the monarchy. Also servants who held ordinary jobs and equivalent to the status of those on the outside also got the guillotine, and that too without a PROPER TRIAL.
atlanticl 1 month ago
What positive impact did Robespierre have apart from his political ideas? Yes he helped form the Declaration with the ideals for France but did he actually do anything else?
xNaN3x 1 month ago
@xNaN3x He did and he didn't...he helped pass laws about divorce and illegitimate children as well as the Law of 22 Prairial which made it easier to execute traitors of the Republic in 1794 BUT he held very little political party. Unfortunately he has come to be a symbol of what was wrong with the Revolution, when it reality he didn't do a whole lot. (I'm writing my thesis on him...)
unenlightenedshadows 1 month ago
@unenlightenedshadows Ahh, cause my history teacher was trying to give me the impression that he did more than have the revolutionary ideas that served to encourage the people of france. I suppose however that he did contribute towards the declaration that forms the basis of french law today... thanks for your help :)
xNaN3x 1 month ago
@xNaN3x Not really...but glad I could help!
unenlightenedshadows 1 month ago
9:28 I see why he was unprepared...he looks high to me :s
jamoXDlemon 2 months ago 7
So lets see, France was a monarchy up until 1792 correct? And then they had a "Republic" until 1799 when Napoleon seized power and established the TRUE republic (without corruption, mass-murder and political plotting against each other).
And in 1804 France becomes an Empire with Napoleon as Emperor until 1814 when he abdicates. Monarchy is then established for a year until Napoleon returns as emperor in 1815 and after that, France is a monarchy AGAIN...
What a messy and useless revolution imo
IvanBeSerious 2 months ago
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GGFBrazil 2 months ago
i think this is good historic example of what happens when u go against the authority figures, there was 2 much bloodshed.. the french people should work with the king and hammer out a compromise but alot of these revolution guys were inspired by marx
blurtoutbert 2 months ago
@blurtoutbert ...french revolution (1789) karl marx (b. 1818). dont be stupid.
kyletoddpeters 2 months ago
@blurtoutbert well the King was given a chance to head a constitonal, democratic goverment but he hated liberty so much he fled his palace Versailes and tried to flee itno Austria. I'm not defending the "Regin of terror" it was to bloody your right, but the king is hardly the most sympathetic figure in the action..
crownprincetaffe 1 month ago
@blurtoutbert Do you watch Fox News by any chance?
ufotofu9 2 weeks ago
do you hear the people sing, singing the song of angry men, it is the music of of the people who will not be slaves again
Tiepobadaae 2 months ago
Comfy Wedding lol, cool video documentary I was doing a research paper for this
Omega3010 2 months ago
I'm watching for David Bell
luffykens 2 months ago
thumbs up if you are learning for test :D
temanimi 2 months ago 75
@temanimi i'm not learning for a test but watching for my school asignment
:P
kroshimoshi 2 months ago
@temanimi why else;)
Tiepobadaae 2 months ago
@temanimi thumbs up for giant-ass essay that you put off till the last minute
icecoast13 1 month ago
@temanimi Actually I'm cheating for an essay XD lol.
simok97 1 month ago
Muerte a reyes y plutócratas, viva el pueblo libre y soberano!
Komnenit 2 months ago
Dont know about other nations but India definetly need a such revolution.
GrandmasterTigerfist 2 months ago
Love it or hate it, the Revolution was a sea change in world history.
Starfish99100 2 months ago
lol at FML 5:52
gabb1942 2 months ago
@gabb1942 AHAHAHHAHA
kinetix50 2 months ago
@dalecampbl6 ok, fair enough, who do you think the rest of us find to be more obnoxious, you or them?
mollkatless 3 months ago
@dalecampbl6 - I'm not sure who is more obnoxious, the justin bieber lovers/haters who leave their message all over you tube, or you people who leave your obnoxious message all over youtube - who do you think is more obnoxious between you two?
mollkatless 3 months ago
So arabs have made it 4 times in one year,, 2011!!!
elnino0ooo 3 months ago
The letters on the gate read "FML." Perfect.
richardflog 3 months ago
whats the music that starts playing at 10:13 ?
Alieneighty8 3 months ago
7:52 Oh god the violin is sooo dark and cool it sends shivers down my spine :DDD
KeshnerfFilms 3 months ago
wordt het niet eens tijd voor een nederlandse revolutie tegen de regering en al hun belachelijke regels. laten ze een land gewoon regeren in plaats van te verknooien
natasscha1982 3 months ago
@natasscha1982 i agree Ik weet alleen wat je zei door google translate
garrettisninja 3 months ago
what's the name of music start in 3:28?
hipheng1 3 months ago
If i had Louis 15ths place i wouldve screwed antoinette so hard
ismaol1 3 months ago
@ismaol1 it wax Louis 16th ; )
GhibliOriginals 3 months ago
@ismaol1 Don't you mean XVI?
Pingascore 3 months ago
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ismaol1 3 months ago
@dalecampbl6 @mitchlisad i couldn't agree with you more. I share in your passion!
mitchlisad 4 months ago
@dalecampbl6 We need to be much more careful how we go about it though! The French could have saved themselves a lot of bloodshed had they been more organized and one minded about everything.
mitchlisad 4 months ago
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imlisteningify 4 months ago
Robespierre got what he deserved.
imlisteningify 4 months ago
wtf????? ok who was the 15 year old who married the 14 year old and didnt the grandfather die already? He died again? who died and what what whatty is going on?
iWriteUinMyDeathNote 4 months ago
@iWriteUinMyDeathNote King Louis the XV's grandson, is Louis Cappe who was 15 years old when he got married and later becomes King Louis XVI. Marie Antoinette is his wife who was 14 at the time. She later becomes really selfish and she spends all her money for clothing and accessories while the rest of the country is in great debt.
No, the grandfather didn't die yet. The video just didn't talk much about him. He died of smallpox, an unpopular ruler and that's when Louis XVI comes to power.
DXpcXD 4 months ago
Seeing Louis XVI's portrait at 9:28 makes me want to punch him in his big fat nose.
KayBeeEee1983 4 months ago in playlist French Revolution
@dalecampbl6 How is our situation anything like the French revolution? I think the French revolution is more akin to the Bolshevik revolution.
KayBeeEee1983 4 months ago in playlist French Revolution
rosbpierre rulz
avq5 4 months ago
And now there's a new nobility on the rise, because the masses take democracy for granted.
keesvangulik127 4 months ago
Robespierre is really cool
infernape493 4 months ago
@dalecampbl6 what will that do? I mean, is any of that really going to change anything?
southernbrooklyngal 4 months ago
Watch the Playlist "Marie Antoinette: Innocent", on StarQualityWins channel, and read the captions.
StarQualityWins 4 months ago
@dalecampbl6 Are you serious?
arsviatticae 4 months ago
THE SAME SITUATION IS HAPPENING IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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MrFlohi 5 months ago in playlist The French Revolution
lol we watched this movie in world studies last week :D
thesapphiredragonfly 5 months ago
@thesapphiredragonfly so did i
Killzone742 5 months ago
I'm 14 and I actually find this interesting. xDD
XxRusty96xX 5 months ago
@XxRusty96xX Very interesting and super biased documentary. Do not believe everything the history channel plays. A lot of what they say here is not true about the monarchy.
Mark123USA 4 months ago
we need another one, this time worldwide
TalonMercenary 5 months ago 42
@TalonMercenary Dude, are you serious? You want all the bloodshed that came from this?!
finrodbrs 5 months ago
@finrodbrs Another one to rid the world of the corrupt elite
TalonMercenary 5 months ago
StarQualityWins is a deluded moron who keeps voting up his comments. What a loser! Take a look at the entire comment thread. He makes shit up time and time again about history and gets corrected again, and again.. and again... Sweet jesus, what a crazy ideologue moron. This is the only quality right wingers excel at, revisionism.
SheBlindedMeWScience 5 months ago
@SheBlindedMeWScience No, others have heard similar and vote my comments up. I think anyone who's never heard anything at all about these theories that I believe to be true, are the deluded ones. StarQualityWins knows what's right.
StarQualityWins 5 months ago 2
@SheBlindedMeWScience Yes: the comment thread is sadly indicative; the user name suggests successful motion pictures and the obvious talent appears to be audacious invention, rather than historical credibility. It is doubtful if advice formerly given to take heed of evidence or seek employment as a gifted script writer will be followed but, on a happier note perhaps, it would be churlish of us not to at least nominate a vicarious award to Star for acquiring a topical background knowledge :-)
elrjames777 5 months ago
COCAINE REVOLUTION FTW.
100jokes 5 months ago
Napoleon was regarded by Washington, Jefferson and Franklin the same way Jerry, George and Elaine regarded "Newman" on Seinfeld.
StarQualityWins 6 months ago
Many clichés and crazy stories in the comments. Very funny for a French to read that kind of stuff...
NFL9475 6 months ago in playlist That's France
Ungrateful commoners.
louthegiantcookie 6 months ago
'Schlub' I loce that word! In regards to Loius Capet, like so many before him, he inherited a kingdom that was already a mess, and was not capable of cleaning up his predecessor's mess.
ProfessorSSJ 6 months ago
Louis XVI was merely this tubby and boring individual becuase he sat in his palace all day, drinking Stella and listening to Snoop Dogg play his revolutionary rap tunes!!
raskinman 7 months ago
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@raskinman If that were true, France would have been taken over the day after his grandfather died, rather than 1789 when it was taken over internally by 13 men parading as "revolutionaries".
StarQualityWins 7 months ago 6
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besides that one has to agree that these 13 men did a justifiable act in executing the royal pigs. If only we had 13 men that have the power to teach our Monarchy a few 'sharp' lessons
raskinman 7 months ago
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@raskinman That sounds a bit more like "13 Ghosts", to me.
StarQualityWins 6 months ago
04:28 and starts the era of photoshopping. the guy was likely hideous in real life.
108Dax 7 months ago
Viva La Revolution
di1l 7 months ago
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Robespierre used tabloid lies to sway the people. Those who believed the lies were incited to riot. Those who could see through him were threatened with barbarism. Those who complained justly, were simply worried about the financial state of France and needed answers. The faux "national assembly" prevented the people from getting answers by blocking their participation in the Third Estate. They permitted no communication, only the spread of lies. It was a hostile take-over and not a revolution.
StarQualityWins 7 months ago 11
The history of this great revolution has an inspiring impact on the world today, but the king did an awful job at controlling the economy so all in all history is cool :0
zcosm2 7 months ago 23
@zcosm2 he did cuz he was just 15 never told.. he never had any tutering from his farther? how can you expect todo an exam without gudience... you can't because it's just like controlling an economy........ never the less history is never awful.. never a mistake ..what we did as humans on this earth bought the best for genarations like us to come and learn from it...
joeythekangaroo1000 3 months ago
The People were in truth, fighting NOT The Monarchy but Robespierre and Napoleon's Violent, Forceful Take-Over, which has been called "The Reign of Terror". While it's true that they soured the publics' opinion of The Monarchy with tabloid lies and fired up some crowds to the state rioting with speeches based on lies, there was no real revolution. The People were fighting to end The Reign of Terror. "The Women's March" was a tabloid lie. Both genders were incited by speeches to storm Versailles.
StarQualityWins 7 months ago 2
14. july 1789 was fall of Europe
IMBACHABRI 7 months ago 2
Maximilian Robespierre is played by the Romanian Actor George Ivascu
siralucard19 7 months ago
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siralucard19 7 months ago
what did the french want?
harliette 7 months ago
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They wanted a country ruled by themselves, where everyone was given equality. They wanted no royals or aristocracy. It would have been a good plan, apart from the fact that thousands of people died for it.
annie10103 7 months ago
@annie10103 Yeah I was thinking the Austrians had to bear embarrasment for certainly ruining the system. I thought just attend your people and have standards considering this could happen again. The last fault I believe it was the age of the rulers. I was told this story long time ago surely there are some details to recatch.
harliette 7 months ago
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I meant more of 'the terror' than anything else. I mean, as it says in the documentary, the people of the revolution were falling victim to it themselves. Not to mention there were children as young as fourteen dieing on the guillotine.
annie10103 7 months ago
@annie10103 ah yes the illnes of the eighteenth century was defined ill advised. Do you believe she would drunkly say 'eat cake' to them as much as she was a gambler. We can't point too negatively at history. I am sure she confessed her God in regards to deficits.
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espoire1757 7 months ago
Répondre à cette vidéo... They want bread! The Seven Years' War and then the participation of France in the American Revolutionary War alongside the insurgents have emptied the box of the state. Then for several years in a row, France is striking the weather causes poor harvest! All this puts the country bankrupt and the people on the brink of starvation! Added to that the Enlightenment ideas of freedom and equality and this is the revolution!
espoire1757 7 months ago
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@espoire1757 It wasn't weather, how could only farms have bad weather? The farmers were using a fertilizer that was bad. The soil was depleted and the crops had to be rotated. It wasn't the King's fault, tabloids exaggerated. The Monarchy predicted financial improvement within the year, due to returns on their American investment. There were to be new opportunities where French citizens could take jobs helping to establish French-American states, in exchange for board and passage and modest pay.
StarQualityWins 7 months ago 4
@StarQualityWins Iceland, 1783: The Laki volcano, which triggered the French Revolution! So we named him in France at the time after the storming of the Bastille: "volcano of the Revolution"
A distance of 25 km, there are 130 craters émirent 14 billion m3 of basaltic lava, hydrofluoric acid and sulfur dioxide, from 1783 in 1784, causing the largest volcanic eruption of historic times, with consequences disastrous for Iceland and the very large weather disturbances in Europe. "
espoire1757 7 months ago
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The ash covered the island, and 50% to 80% of farm animals died. The famine that followed decimated 20% of the Icelandic population. In summer 1783, an anticyclone centered powerful and lasting effect on the North Atlantic sent the smoke to the rest of Europe should know that "an estimated 122 million tons of sulfur dioxide were emitted into the atmosphere,
espoire1757 7 months ago
the equivalent of three times annual industrial emissions in Europe and the equivalent of an eruption like that of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 all three days. The emission of sulfur dioxide coinciding with unusual weather conditions caused a thick fog sulphide that spread throughout Western Europe, causing thousands of deaths during 1783 and winter 1784. "
The years following the eruption of Laki in 1783 were marked by extreme weather, including droughts and harsh winters,
espoire1757 7 months ago
since said that the bread and meat froze on the kitchen table and corbels flight. We saw an accentuation of the Little Ice Age. The squall line thunderstorm that passed through France from south to north in the summer of 1788, destroyed nearly all crops in the country. It weighed 10 pounds hail (5 kgs).
A cloud of dust covered the 2 / 3 of France and was deposited in part on the ground.
espoire1757 7 months ago
The situation was so desperate farmers that the revolution broke out in 1789. These changes in climate and the volcano Laki are perhaps not the only cause, but historians agree that they had considerable influence in the political events that ended the monarchy.
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MrsLittleMaya 8 months ago
The Monarchy had answers: 1. Financial returns were projected from their loans to America 2. The Royal Court was never formally addressed about the farmers' prognosis and Robespierre BLOCKED the peoples' concerns from being heard. As a result, charity funds went untapped. 3. Tax increases were exaggerated in tabloids, and were also temporary. 4. Focus on USA inspired Louis XVI and Marie to shift toward Constitutional Monarchy. It was they and NOT faux "revolutionaries" who got that ball rolling.
StarQualityWins 8 months ago
I find the debate about whether the Revolution was caused by hunger or tabloid inflammation a little trite. Evidently there were many reasons, but as a monarchy in charge of a nation, if you allow ANY people to go hungry, then you're planting the seeds of your own destruction.
Obviously the public was influenced by the newspapers, obviously many of the revolutionary leaders had selfish reasons. But would a man really risk his health in an angry mob if he wasn't angry about something real?
bigman25plus25 8 months ago
What evidence is there to back this documentary, that WAS NOT born in the words (lies) of 13 men? The enlightenment had already been going on for decades; Voltaire died in 1778. This event in no way triggered an elightenment. How could the French People including the poor, declare Marie Antoinette an Icon celebrate her presence, thus her initial fame, yet within a few years denounce her as "Ice Queen Demon"? Tabloid lies and propaganda is how. Marie had exhibited only grace, etiquette and honor.
StarQualityWins 8 months ago 4
All I'm going to say it was sick how when Marie Antoinette was on trail that they accused her of asulting her son :/ All she wanted to be was a mother :)
ThornoftheRose1993 8 months ago
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LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION, LONG LIVE LIBERTY
peace691000 8 months ago
America did know at that time that Robespierre had wrestled the plans of Louis XVI away from him. Louis and Marie w/Parliament had plans for making American-inspired restructural democratic changes in France albeit w/Monarchy in tact. Jefferson, George Washington and Benjemen Franklin DID know that the faux "National Assembly" was campaigning with stolen plans. They wanted America to believe that the idea of Monarchy had to go regardless and that they wanted an elected president--it wasn't true.
StarQualityWins 8 months ago 7
After Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Parliament, Rochembeau, and all French Government were chased out by the madman Robespierre posing as a revolutionary, using the force of gullible people that he fired up with lies to incite anger and hopelessness; Once France was lost to Terrorists, and then Napoleon, The United States remained nuetral, and privately withdrew from all relations w/France, as Washington did not want to work with Robespierre nor Napoleon, and he never supported the violence.
StarQualityWins 8 months ago 7
dont you just love it people? one says "i have no formal education in history nor any real knowledge or formal sources of reference, but youre wrong" and the retort?" No dude I have no formal education, no real knowledge nor formal references but youre the one whos wrong" and yet they both think they know better than an expert proferssors who have decades of research into the subject under thier belts- well of course!
dancingnancy09 8 months ago 3
The Third Estate General Assembly was a meeting scheduled by Louis XVI of his own accord. Traditionally held as a "town hall" with King and the people themselves present to voice all concerns, hear future plans. It was meant to help the decision process. 12 men alone, elected themselves "National Assembly" stating that they would speak for the people. This means that THEY and NOT the people would be the Third Estate, thus preventing public participation. The Tennis Court Oath NEVER occurred.
StarQualityWins 8 months ago 9
There were Noble and Royal charities for the poor with enough combined funds to bring relief, and were available to the public. Why weren't they tapped into? Because the faux "National Assembly" didn't truly seek solutions and lied about formally addressing the Royal Court regarding the peoples' needs. They wanted to take over France, NOT help the people. They only worked to isolate Versailles from understanding what was happening 10 miles away in Paris. Marie wasn't detached, only uninformed.
StarQualityWins 8 months ago 7
Robespierre used talk and tabloids to initiate revolt as a tool for internal take-over. He lied to the people claiming it would take 10 years for improvements. The Monarchy predicted improvement within the year. Louis XVI was working with his Ambassador, Thomas Jefferson to write the French Constitution of his own accord. France was already a sister country to the Democratic movement. The people didn't initiate this event but were used by Robespierre, for without riots take-over was impossible
StarQualityWins 8 months ago 7
@StarQualityWins The idea that Jefferson would be "working to write the constitution" of France with her Monarch without informing anyone, including his own Secretary of State, is ridiculous and incredible. As you have been corrected, several times in these posts, American independence was not a "democratic movement" and the word appears nowhere in the Declaration nor the Constitution. These facts are not only self evident but supported by abundant testimony, and you have no contrary evidence.
elrjames777 8 months ago
@elrjames777 Jefferson was advisor, not writer. No need to slant my statements--typical. France wanted to make their Constitution comparable to America's with certain differences, as Louisiana was already complying with American constitutional law but without slavery. Louis XVI had the intelligence to work this out of his own accord w/ his newly assembled Parliament and Marie Antoinette. The French Monarchy had already planned a shift to Modern Constitutional Monarchy and commisioned a new flag.
StarQualityWins 8 months ago 6
@StarQualityWins The lost opportunity for Louis and Marie is poignant and your tale has romantic value; it is an appealing alternative history, but you misleadingly present it as fact; it lacks supporting evidence and is often contradicted by documents. Also, although you engage topical interest, presenting an alluring backdrop to events with detailed embellishment, you are wasting your history fable writing talents with u tube squabbling; you could make a ton of money on a novel or film script
elrjames777 8 months ago
@StarQualityWins My gosh ! you are wasted man. It will be funny if it wasn't so sad, you act like you are educated but my god you know nothing about french history and your comments are an insult for every french's history student. "They commisioned a new flag" LOL What a lot of bullshit !
42Connect 8 months ago
@42Connect Marie Antoinette was the true force behind Democracy in France and the true helper of George Washington. True, real, positive, humane Democracy was thwarted by Robespierre, his faux "national assembly", Napoleon, and their faux "revolution" aka riots incited by lies. The things that the faux revolutionaries stole credit for had already been planned or were under way, at the hand of the Sovereign: Fact. France was set to do about 80% of the original American Democracy. Napoleon did 5%.
StarQualityWins 8 months ago 6
@StarQualityWins You are a liar and/or an idiot ! And paranoic too ! Do you really believe this nonsense ? Thomas jefferson wrote the French constitution, wow , and with louis XVI but of course ! was the phantom of the opera with them ? (I am just curious) you are good for the mental house if you believe this crap.
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StarQualityWins 8 months ago 3
@Jeanne189
The only other possible reason my research ever turned up was Paine's anti-clerical views. However, as the Church had oppressed the French populace so terribly, I would imagine the new governing body would be sympathetic to Paine's opinion. Paine's writings in France were supportive of the Revolution, but they would not have remained supportive of the methods in the Terror. I merely restate the reason for imprisonment given by Paine's biographers, not "Conspiracy Theories."
neoimpressionist 8 months ago
would this work if we got an american to marry one of their enemies?
themousemaster 8 months ago
Nothing annoys me more than narrators talking about the past in the present tense! Other than that, good documentary.
dukmysik 9 months ago
A brilliant documentary!- the French Revolution has to be the most significant event in World history. The way it introduced the enlightenment era, the end to feudal rule and the rise of democratic principles- the foundations of todays society. However much of a tyrant Robespierre may have been, he was undoubtedly still an incredibly talented man. His power of oratory, his politcal mastermind and the way he could influence anyone through words. Like Cicero, Shakespeare and Churchill- Robespierre
MrEnlighteneddespot 9 months ago
¨Prince Louis Capet? Wtf, are you talking about? The name Capet was given to the royal family when they resigned as monarchs in 1791! The Capet family had once ruled france in the 15th or 14th century but were exstinct.. Louis correct name was Louis Auguste de Bourbon!
Bottebuh 9 months ago 5
@Bottebuh you're wrong amigo! The Capetians, also called Maison de France, rulled France from 987 to 1848, except during the revolution and the napoleonian era.
Louis XVI was indeed a Bourbon, but the Bourbons are a sub-branch of the Capets, therefore capetians as well
selecto16 9 months ago 35
@selecto16 i argee.
hope1447 9 months ago in playlist The French Revolution
@selecto16 BOOM THATS A KILL
BlackThornNinja 9 months ago
@selecto16 regardless, his name was not 'louis capet' until after the abolition of the monarchy, louis was a bourbon.
FaultYesteryear 8 months ago
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@selecto16 what had happened during the reign of louis the XV that tharnished the reputation of the king?
shanevince21 8 months ago
@selecto16 You ar right.
shadedness 6 months ago
@selecto16 no your wrong since we just learned in school today that it was bourban, plus it says in this video it was bourban either that or the textbook.
Deisy5086 5 months ago
@Bottebuh The DIRECT line of Capet family came to an end in 1328! The Bourbons may have been a sub-branch of The Capetians but it was the Bourbons who ruled France, and therefore they we're called so!During the French Revolution, when France was declared a republic, Louis was given the name "Citizen Louis Capet" a name which implied that the Bourbons had been illegitimate usurpers all along. The king protested that Capet was not his name, though it had been that of some of his ancestors.
Bottebuh 9 months ago
@Bottebuh They called him Capet as an insult. Louis would correct them until his death, even at the most dire moments.
SarhahC 8 months ago
@SarhahC Yes i know that, but it was not used while he