Why the king of France ate his food cold #shorts

[jameswhittingham]

Weirdest monarch flex: my palace is so large nobody can get hot food.

[krankarvolund]

Not only food had to go through all this, but in the room where the king eat, all the food was first tasted by someone to see if there was any poison, of course, then everything was put on a table to be presented, like we're talking about one or two dozens of different meals put on the table, often with extravagant shapes because they have to be admired.
Then when they were admired enough and the king decided what he will eat, they cut the food and serve it. There's lots of time for everything to be cold, it's called a french service and is not very popular anymore ^^

[AskMeABee]

When I see buildings that size, I just can't imagine ever wanting to live there.

[OTDMilitaryHistory]

Overwhelmingly massive. The museum is gigantic and yet it’s not even all of it.

[amadddd]

Yeah Versailles is a hell of a walk. The Palace inside is one thing, but the garden is EVEN BIGGER

[daviddfh]

At the Prussian palaces of Sanssouci, special tunnels were built to bring food directly from the kitchen. This must have been a serious issue at the time.

[JeanMarceaux]

Imagine if Louis XIV's keymaster had invented a genius idea of having horse carriages get the food to the King's keep. That would literally be Uber Eats, but in 18th century

[chaseowens]

You’d think with all the time and money and effort that went into it they would have built the kitchen closer to the dinning room/hall lol

[MehNameBobbsy]

Hope you enjoy[ed] your trip to France and have a safe trio back home! Love watching your videos and learning all these fun facts about history

[rileydavidson]

I just imagine a guy running through the halls saying "fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck" while running and trying to not to spill any food

[jimjimsauce]

love to remember the palace also used to reek of sewage and the nobility rarely bathed

[barbiedesoto]

He built the place to trap the nobility that had threatened him during La Fronde when he was a small child. They chased him and his mother and brother out of Paris when his father died. He built Versailles, lured the nobles there with its grandeur and beauty. He kept them all there where they became indebted to him with apartment rents, gambling debts etc. I’m sure every cold bite was worth it to him if it meant his enemies were in his guilted cage and he was in power. He was insane but you can see how that childhood experience informed everything he did as king. He established the most rigorous etiquette in Europe, all of which was meant to remind nobles of their place beneath him, from the height of wigs and heels to the material of buttons on their clothing, there were rules about what people of rank could wear or not. And when they went to the Versailles chapel, they watched the king worship God. It was a whole lavish spectacle of subjugation.

[erikrungemadsen]

I sort of doubt this, since a French royal chef commited suicide when he found out he might not be able to serve any fish at dinner.
If the King wanted hot food, he was served hot food.

[charlie]

Please talk about how Louis XIV wanted all his nobles to live at Versailles BUT the nobles under Louis XVI all wined about living too far from the city and after the King relented, the nobles were murdered by the people in the following revolution

[dvilrever]

Funny, here in france I heard the same story but with the king of spain and his palace, a story about the captivity of François the first and getting always cold meal because the kitchen where so far away, when he came back to france after (not) paying his ransom he built a lot of palace where you can see that the kitchen are conveniently placed not far away from the dinings room, also making passages for domestic to travel around faster...

[calebbarnhouse]

The worst thing about nobility eating cold food is that they easily could have avoided it, just with using the same bed pans that they'd use in the winter being put under them

[DPonce-heee]

Imagine just a single poor servant frantically pushing his cart at Mach speed from the kitchen to his lordships quarters.

[MTTT]

I read that the Hall of Mirrors there was originally built as a flex against the Venetians. The people of Venice for the longest time had the European monopoly for making mirrors of the best quality. Until France one day managed to sneak out a few mirror makers to their country, and the first order was for the French King to cover the walls of a big palace room, just to show off how rich they were.

[nerdlingeeksly]

Weird how even rich monarchs weren't immune to poor architectural planning.

[theconfederacyofindependen]

Did you know: the Government of the German Empire was established in the Palace of Versailles and not in Germany