French Dude Reacts to the French Revolution Part One
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
- A French Dude Reacts to the French Revolution Part One by Oversimplified!
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Part 2 is coming this Friday, and Vive La Révolution!
This was really good to watch, loved your take and added information on the French revolution. I'm probably the resident ancient person on here but if faint memory serves me I remember my history teacher made sure we understood the Queen never said" let them eat cake" we were taught that as you pointed out that fake news has always been a thing, haha. Really enjoyed this and can't wait for part two. I'm thinking that the old saying " the more things change the more they stay the same " is true. As always thank you for the video and thoughtful commentary
Thank you! It's sometimes said that if you repeat something often enough, it becomes true. I think that's what happened to poor Marie-Antoinette 😅
It's also worth noting that while the quote itself happened decades before the Revolution, it wasn't attributed to her until decades after her death. So it wasn't so much fake news as revisionist history.
Being an outsider listening to you talk about your own history is great. You do a very good job of providing context and angles one might not think of immediately as an outsider.
I also find it fascinating to compare how parliamentary systems developed in different countries.
In Sweden, we had a strong parliamentary phase after the death of Charles XII. Basically, we transitioned from an absolute monarchy to a system with almost all power in the hands of the parliament.
The Swedish parliament of the time was slightly different from the French one. There were four estates, with the bourgeoisie and peasants separated into two different estates. All estates had one vote per representative. This meant that in the full parliament, the peasants had the second most votes after the nobility. However, the first three estates often teamed up and mostly locked the peasants out. Although, being able to raise motions, even though they were doomed to fail, proved to be a good tool for the peasants to draw attention to their problems.
This system even led to two proto-parties that fought for power, the Caps party and the Hats party. The system ended 13 years before the French Revolution by a royal self-coup, which brought almost all power back to the monarchy.
Fear of reigniting the powerstruggle with parliament was one of the main reasons the Swedish monarchs were so anti-France after the revolution.
Yes, it's fascinating to see how each country's history has led it to its current political system. That's what I loved about reacting to the American Civil War, and it's how we come to better understand how a nation functions today, and how individual citizens behave in ways that may surprise us from the outside.
i like hearing little facts and corrections from an actual french person every oversimplified video I watch of yours I learn things I never even knowledge is power
Thank you!!! I try to share as best I can what I've learned and how as a Frenchman I feel about events. And I'm delighted that you like it, and hell yes knowledge is power
I'm so glad the algorithm brought me here. Great video brother. Can't wait to see more! Going to go check out Part 2 now! Cheers from the USA!
Now that's a comment that gives me energy! Thanks buddy, greetings from Baguetteland!
Wonderful reaction and commentary. I've seen this Oversimplified video before but having the additional historical information and your well articulated perspective brings it to another level. Merci!
Thank you! I am very glad that you could watch this episode again with a fresh perspective, greetings from France!
Thank you for filling in the edges of the oversimplified. It's difficult to separate fact from myth. This is more than we get in school about these things, as our educational institutions tend to be very ethnocentric.
Thank you, it's the same for our educational institutions!
God speed. Fantastic seeing more of your stuff and the disrespected Yellow Vest too.
I wish you great luck, and I look forward to more.
Thank you so much for your comment, it encourages me to continue spreading a new revolution in France!
The "80% of the population" could be referring just to the actual peasantry, as in excluding Bourgeois etc.
Ah yes, that could be an explanation! Thank you
Little late but i subscribed, when I was a young kid i befriended and older lady who was Paris, she was pretty amazing friend she said would tell me stories about French history including the French revolution.
Sorry for my late answer 😅 thank you nice to hear!
One of the interesting thing a have heard about the French Revolution, witch they did not even mention in this video (well it it oversimplified but important) was the Compte rendu au Roi or Report to the King written by Jacques Necker. It is a report concerning the spending of the Royal Household and France's financial state. It was hugely influence writing and widely published. People even said decades after the Revolution that they learned to read by reading the report.
Super interesting point! What's more, Necker was very popular and his dismissal was a bad sign to the public. Thank you very much for adding this info.
Un gilet jaune - nice touch!
L'élégance à la française ! Thank you very much 😃
It's really well done, and you seem very well versed in the history. I would expect french people in general to know this topic well, but you come across as quite intelligent and well read.
Thank you very much 😀
Finally a french reaction to this. I could find someone from most of the other nation for various videos of oversimplified but french opinions are hard to come by. I'm not sure if french people tend to be more serious and dont react to rhis sort of content, or if its simply, they're less likely to react to content in english.
Well, that's exactly what I realised and that's why I launched my channel. The 'react' format doesn't seem to be very popular in France, and I also think that a lot of French people are a bit shy when it comes to speaking English or assume that they'll be criticised.
If you want to listen to a deep dive about the French and many other revolutions, you should listen to Mike Duncan's "Revolutions" podcast. That's not oversimplified, it will tell you everything you want to know about all the revolutions and much, MUCH more. My favorite was the Haitian Revolution.
Thank you, I've been browsing the titles of the episodes, it looks great!
One thing I noticed their is know Louis XVIIth. We have the XVIth who gets beheaded and then the XVIIIth who becomes king when Napoleon was dealt with. Where's the XVIIth?
He is the son of Louis 16, who died in captivity at the age of 10, in 1795. He was recognized by the other sovereigns and by Louis 18 as having been king under the name of "Louis XVII". He was nicknamed "l'enfant du temple" because he died of illness in the Temple prison.
@@ToonStory-fh4gn Fun fact. A lot of myths sprung up about the fate of Louis XVII. If you believe the fictionalised account by the Baroness Orczy he was rescued by The Scarlet Pimpernel 😂. He also turns up in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. The "King" pretends that he is the Dauphin and insists that "the Duke of Bilgewater" as well as Huck and the runaway slave Jim treat him as royalty. In reality, of course upon the death of Louis XVI he would no longer be the Dauphin, but the King. In 2000 a scientific enquiry using DNA confirmed that Louis Charles died in prison. Cause of death - scrofula (tuberculosis of the lymph glands). Ironically, scrofula was known as the "King's evil" and anointed kings were supposed to have the power of curing it simply by touch. Unfortunately for Louis he was never anointed.
Shoutout to that maniac Robespierre 😅💯
"My friends gaze apon the virtue of my Republic."
He's just warming up for the second part, when he'll show us the full extent of his expertise 😅
Fuck the window tax.
Big times
Striking just seems to be part of France's national culture 😂
Oh yes, big times!
@@ToonStory-fh4gn lol
If anyone knows of a good video or documentary on tactical side of the storming of the Bastille, please let me know. I never really understood how a well-built medieval castle (which were notoriously difficult to storm for a full medieval army) fell so quickly to a mob who didn’t even have gunpowder! Did De Launay just lose his nerve? Had they removed the key defensive features of the gatehouse like the portcullis? The Bastille should’ve been a death trap for attackers!
I can't recommend any good videos (I don't know of any), but the garrison was isolated against a growing crowd, and gradually joined by regiments (including a grenadier regiment). A cannon shot opens a door and the square becomes increasingly difficult to hold. De Launay negotiates with the crowd to save the lives of his men and safe passage to safety. But the crowd goes wild and De Launay is killed after he thought he had secured a safe passage.
@@ToonStory-fh4gn Thank you, I didn’t know military units joined them.
Can you make reaction to Genshin Fontaine region
You have a nice accent when speaking English. I hope to learn French someday.
Thank you 😀They say French must be hard to learn, but we've got lots of funny expressions!