YouTubers React to The French Revolution - OverSimplified Part 1

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[nox]

I spent thousands of hours reading about the 1st french revolution (as a french), but i could never really grasp everything. Our 2nd and 3rd Revolutions are much easier to get in comparison. Really understanding our 1st Revolution is probably something that requires years or decades. After so many hours, i still discover new figures, new events, and all seem so relevant... As an example, i only found 2 years ago about "The declaration of women's rights" of 1792 (i think), written by Olympe de Gouges. And so, i started reading about her, discover that she is meant to be the first feminist in History, that she was very controversed, and i found out about those people around her, all these other leading women and so on... This created more questions about more figures and events, and so on, and so forth, there is no end to it.

[jimlee]

You should do more of his stuff, he's great

[captaindelta]

French Revolution is one of the greatest Revolution . It's was like a really emotional, action, thriller Real life movie . Oversimplified simply did an absolutely brilliant job doing justice to it

[SimAG]

In my region in france, we still had house of this periode of time (like they are musum now) and they are only one small windows cause the taxe !
And fun fact : the real passion of king louis was kind blacksmith (wich was a disgrace for a king ) and he upgrade the guillotine by curving the blade and teste it later ;-)

[randallshuck]

Part of the trouble was related to what was known as "The little ice age". The period leading up to the revolution was a 20 year period of poor grain harvests and the refusal of the French to adopt other foods such as potatoes, beets and carrots which can grow through the colder, wetter and more stormy conditions. The Germans, English, and Spanish taught their people to use the root crops and although they had a hard time they weren't starving. The final three years of complete grain failure used up any storage they had.

[bazil]

"Pretty ironic that there were so many starving people in France, cos... France has the best food" -Youtuber.

Yet people still wonder why lots of Youtubers are considered diqs.

[Tripleblyet]

Im always baffled at how an account with almost 7k subscribers, has such high quality videos

[Centz]

Idea: mabey make a discord server for people to make suggestions and talk

[kolerick]

tenis court oath => serment du jeu de paume

[mayfielcl]

I just learned this at school this week😁

[jackangel]

I just love it when a couple of young Armenians take a break from watching rap videos and playing GTA to give their "take" on deep historical events! Gimmick, what gimmick!?! Chi town rules!!!

[ZombieDragQueen]

According to the court physician Louis XVI had phimosis. That's tight foreskin that doesn't allow to be pulled back past the glans and causes pain trying to do so. Not sure what the remedies were back then for phimosis, but it explains why he didn't boink Marie Antoinette. I bet he presided over those Estates General meetings as busywork and an excuse not to boink Marie because he was ashamed of his physiological penile condition.

[oliversherman]

I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!

[lydiamichaels]

Remember the part of the European map they show in the video is OLD borders/countries…also always remember that the world map is slightly distorted because the closer you drag a country towards the equator the smaller it gets. In this case for European countries it would be dragging it down so uk is smaller than France if it’s to scale.

[dragonforce]

the problem in france at the time wasnt tax but the fact on how taxing worked
the king had 1-5% tax max same as most nobels the people of the second estate had 15-30% tax the third estate had 85-90% tax they thought a standard sum would be fair but the problem is that it was to idealistic
instead of what they thought would happen it became worse they dindt make enough money so they try to tax even more if you were in the third estate you were told that your life is for and from god and becaus most priest are either nobelmen or second class estate they instated that the third estate should honour them by working for free

[JHN_D]

The girl says French people are over taxed but... in USA, companies tax the population directly! And they pay even more! The difference is that poor people don't have the same chances to get wealthier.

[Quessir]

And centuries later, the lies about Marie Antoinette continue to be peddled... she was passed over initially in education as elder sisters were destined for certain marriages, but the deaths of some sisters shuffled the order somewhat, so Marie Antoinette, youngest daughter of the Empress Maria Theresa of the Holy Roman Empire, was suddenly the intended bride for the French prince. Completely unprepared, she was sent to France at a mere fourteen years of age and was thrust into a wildly different world, where most people hated her before she ever arrived because France and Austria were seen as traditional enemies at the time, and the alliance with Austria, crowned with the marriage of the Archduchess to the Dauphin, was done only out of necessity and not a genuine like between each people. Utterly bored at court, she tried to find ways to keep herself entertained. Court was an endless parade of parties, so, having found her group of friends, she took part in these parties and began to spend large amounts of money on said parties - anything to keep from being bored. Would a modern fourteen year old girl suddenly gifted with enormous amounts of money and attention from all the movers and shakers in a country, yet bored stiff being constrained by a world of stiff formality and protocol, do any different? I doubt it.

She did spend enormous amounts of money. So did everyone else around her - that was the world she now lived in. Her new brothers in law were always having their gambling debts paid for them by her husband. It's not as if she alone decided one day to spend lots of money, that was just the done thing in the environment she inhabited. She also gave generously to charities, and on one occasion when she'd spent her allowance for the month and she had nothing to give those charities, she made sure the King paid on her behalf. One Christmas morning she had her children give their new toys away to local peasant children, stating that they had enough and didn't need them. Indeed when she became a mother she massively reigned in her spending and began to project a more mature and dignified personality - gone, for the most part, were the endless parties. When her husband fell into depression over the state of the country and his inability to do anything to resolve it, she stepped in and tried to get things done. Was she successful? No, because she was blocked at every turn, due to the role of the French Queen being far more ceremonial than having any real power, as in other monarchies. That didn't stop the press who laid almost the entire blame for the country's ills at her feet. She ignored this the best she could, but the damage to her reputation was severe..

Hundreds of years later, that reputation has never recovered. People still go about believing to this day that she actually said, "Let them eat cake."

[Zodia]

I am of French decent and my dad was able to trace our family line back to France. They were part of that French group, the Huguenots. They were from Normandy. They did immigrate here before the USA was founded. I can't tell you how happy I was to learn my ancestors came here before the French Revolution.

[adriftwoodking]

Wow, the guy looks and sounds like keemstar lol

[JHN_D]

The guy watched a video about the reasons that led to fall of monarchy in France... and he doesn't know if "it's Prince or KING Louis"???? Wow...