British Couple React To - The French Revolution - OverSimplified (Part 2)

[Music] yo what's up everyone how are you all doing back with another video yeah but part two part two the french revolution uh obviously it goes without saying if you haven't watched part one go check that out unless you wanna watch this and then treat that one as the prequel i mean that kind of works as well i guess but uh yeah thanks for joining us man uh it's a bit of a long one so we're trying not to pause too much yeah uh obviously we will put those every now and again but uh yeah it should be about a half hour video i think yeah no i'm ready to get into it all right let's go king louie and his family we're now in the tuileries wait wait wait wait wait wait like do you remember where we were literally just thinking in my head what the happened what were we up to so they've created they've kind of went back to the old government yeah you know the people but they were being outvoted every time i can't remember exactly so people were getting quite annoyed about that and then he wrote his house they went to but they also raided the uh the prison in paris because it was kind of like a yeah yeah an institute of oppression i guess i kind of sound like a postmodernist but um remember yeah so now the king's basically um having to bow down to like what the people want because he knows that at the end of the day they're like eighty percent of the population sir right ready yeah my brain's ready king louie and his family were now in the tuileries palace in paris where for the next couple of years he watched as a revolutionary government began to strip away his power and fearing for his safety he had to stay on their good side hey look who it is it's my favorite revolutionary yep i'm your number one fan what can i do for you hey king louie so we've made a few decisions first all of your friends in the nobility are going to have to pay taxes the same as everyone else great idea i love it and as a side note the tax money can no longer pay for all your lavish parties great i hate those parties they're so awkward and also we're taking away your porsche ah come on i mean yay the king continually found demand after demand being made of him to prove his support for the revolution on one occasion a mob would invade the palace and demand he wear the revolutionary bonnet this is the face of a man who is definitely pretending he wants to wear that bonnet now around here i want to mention that one thing king louie had a problem with was people constantly raiding his palace but one thing he didn't have a problem with was rating news on this video's sponsor ray go check out raid shadow legend we're just going to skip it for the person purpose of our video but obviously go support oversimplified and all that good stuff oh yeah seeing the situation rapidly turning against him the king decided it might be a good idea to leave france and mount a campaign to retake his country from abroad luckily for him he was married to an austrian so on the night of june 20th 1791 the king and his family disguised themselves as servants and attempted to flee to the austrian netherlands the royal carrick made a stop in the town of veren and the postmaster there was like hey guys what's up where are you off to we are about a collection of inconspicuous servants heading for the border for no particular reason at all say you the fat one you look kind of familiar aren't you the king nope let me see your passport it says here you're king king louie the 16th nope not me take him away boys the king some guy told me in the comments and i'm not sure how true this is because i'm not sure how he would have known but apparently to double check it was the king these they looked at the coins and there was like disease yeah yeah yeah yeah that's definitely him no way um but you know just on that same notion if i looked at a one p and then the one piece looking nothing like queen was supposed to do that no unless unless you had a standoff on like a side note and like a blanket cover yeah and then take like what 50 years off yeah yeah and then take 50 years off yeah he promptly returned to paris but now the jig was up his lack of support for the revolution was clear to all and many considered him a straight-up traitor who tried to abandon his people as a result the new constitution of 1791 completely reduced his powers to that of a simple figurehead a constitutional monarch however radicals such as those in the jacobin club were outraged that the king wasn't to be removed entirely so a month later these radicals staged a protest on the champ dumar calling for the king's removal the government of paris feared an insurrection was mounting and they sent the military to disperse the crowd the confrontation escalated and resulted in the revolutionary national guard firing on a crowd of revolutionaries it was a massacre you know it's worth pointing out that during all the oversimplified videos now what is the percentage of times when the army has been sent to break up a protest and it went well yeah yeah i like the army shop i appreciate it if you guys didn't protest oh well that's fine and we'll just go home because yeah it always ends well the incident exposed a deep division within the brotherhood of the revolution on one side the moderates who wanted to keep the king as a figurehead on the other radicals who wanted to see the king deposed and heads roll in the wake of the massacre these radicals received a wave of support and speaking of rolling heads one form of equality the revolution introduced was equality in execution this meant no more torturous drawing and quartering no more inhumane hanging they wanted all criminals regardless of economic status to receive the same penalty a quick and painless one luckily a man by the name of dr joseph guillotine had an idea a heavy blade that falls like thunder the head flies up blood spurts and the man is no more the guillotine otherwise known as the national razor the guillotine made its debut in 1791 as the new form of execution the writings of mahrez and others continued to call for the execution of the suspected of working against the revolution for him this included some members of the clergy and nobility who had previously benefited from the cruel system of inequality that existed before the revolution in many parts he should really be the sponsor for like bed bath and beyond shouldn't they that eyes which gets me it's the eye twitch and just the you know the scented candles he's like he could be on the advert of like do you know what at least he's dedicated and he's doing bath time right with his candles and his bubbles just at the end of this video i do want to discuss which would be your favorite way to be executed but we'll get to that actually benefited from the cruel system of inequality that existed before the revolution in many parts of the countryside local lords had found themselves become a target sire the peasants they're revolting oh come on that's a bit harsh sure they smell a bit but i wouldn't say that oh yes i see what you mean increasingly these french aristocrats began fleeing france to find solitude in other parts of europe and once again fear began to take hold the privileged classes of these i'm sorry okay i've stopped pausing the promise but did you know it's how all the immigrants no one went to england did you know is that a place no one went to england these french aristocrats began fleeing france to find solitude in other parts of europe and once again fear began to take hold the privileged classes of these foreign nations didn't like what they were seeing because they feared revolutionary ideas may spread to their own lands the national assembly actually now the legislative assembly feared that these nations may decide to attack then why don't we attack them first no you idiots we are definitely not ready for war yet did somebody say something france declared war in austria in april 1792 and immediately got pummeled it also didn't help that austria's ally prussia joined in the fighting the prussian duke of brunswick posted a letter warning the revolutionaries that if anything happened to the king he would burn paris to the ground the duke's letter proved to be a massive success in inspiring the people of paris to do the exact opposite of what he intended they were enraged by the threat and on the 10th of august 1792 the tension in the city exploded and a mob stormed the king's palace fighting broke out between the revolutionaries and the king's swiss guard with casualties in the hundreds king louis fled and took refuge in the chamber of the legislative assembly where rose pierre and his radical jacobins were gaining ever more power given the developing situation the chamber decided to hold a vote and in what some considered to be a second revolution it was decided to suspend the monarchy entirely king louis xvi was now just plain old louis and he was sent to a prison cell where an eye could be kept on him a month later the newly established national convention officially declared the french republic and society underwent a massive change enlightened ideas of democracy and equality were being implemented but very quickly these ideas seem to become secondary to fear paranoia and a thirst for blood the new republic began working to violently remove any semblance of the old royalist regime the church became a prime target priests who refused to take an oath to the revolution were deported or arrested a new state-sponsored atheistic religion named the cult of reason was created as a replacement for the catholic church notre dame along with many other churches had their religious treasures destroyed and were converted to temples of reason even the christian calendar didn't survive as a brand new revolutionary calendar was soon introduced even the christian calendar didn't survive as a brand new revolution 100 seconds per minute 100 minutes per hour 10 hours a day 10 hours a day entirely so imagine that yeah but if 10 hours was the day so you'd have the daytime be a day and then when you have night time and wake up the next day you've missed like a whole day so you'd only be going to work every other day and you'd only sorry what wait sorry this is what was inside no but so it's like you know when you count into like a minute or you count in like an hour are you setting a timer or something sometimes my brain will forget that like 60 seconds is a minute not 100 seconds because you used to run up to 100. oh yeah i guess i could see that and then and then that's why sometimes i'm like because i thought those extra minutes jesus wonder was soon introduced hey honey i'm home yeah whatever jerk whoa what's wrong with you you forgot forgot what everything this entire year my birthday was on the third germinal our anniversary was the 12th of thermador and you promised that in freimer we'd go on a romantic weekend trip to venice no i said would do that in december december hasn't been a thing for years the government of paris now under the control of the radical sun cult began rounding up suspected enemies of the revolution and sending them to prison in the thousands naturally a large number of those arrested were members of the clergy and aristocracy as france's foreign enemies continued to close in panic spread george danton made impassioned calls for men to defend the republic and tens of thousands of troops left paris for the front lines however in their absence paris was left to its own devices as enemy troops arrived in verdun the people of paris feared that their crowded prisons were becoming a breeding ground for counter-revolutionary conspiracy what would happen if the prussians reached paris and freed the aristocrats mara believed he knew what would happen the aristocrats would enact their vengeance on the people fearing those they had already imprisoned mobs descended on paris's prisons they broke in and during the brutal september massacres aristocrats priests and others were tried and executed on the spot even women and children weren't spared with over 1 600 victims word of the massacre spread across europe one british newspaper wondered are these the rights of man is this the liberty of human nature but there is still one man in particular that robespierre and his radicals really wanted to see executed austria and prussia pledged that after they defeated you know what i've noticed and oversimplified only the important people get noses so they stand out yeah you have to earn your nose you have to hang if you in like 20 years time end up in an oversimplified video and you have a nose you know you achieved yeah you've made it you made it here and his radicals really wanted to see executed austria and prussia pledged that after they defeated france they'd return king louis to the throne well czech made austrian prussia because he can't return a man to the throne if he's already dead citizen louis cappe was put on trial for treason obviously he was found guilty but his punishment was less certain many moderates wanted to simply deport him but robespierre insisted the revolution could only live if the king was dead a vote was held and by just one vote louis was sentenced to the guillotine if you don't mind i'd like to say a few words first gentlemen i am innocent of everything of which i am a cute wait you're too loud they can't hear me hang on i haven't finished yet wait dude [Music] i'm cool marie antoinette heard the guns fired signaling her husband's death before long she would meet the same fate back on the war front france defied all expectations and actually managed to push the enemy back but then more countries joined the coalition against france and it all went to pot again what do we do conscript the masses the national convention introduced a conscription law with each regional department having to meet a certain quota of men for the army however not everyone was happy with this new law you see while paris was definitely a hotbed for radical revolutionary fervor some of the regions outside of paris weren't quite so keen on the revolution some were largely still conservative still supported the church and just didn't suffer from that much inequality before the revolution so as the revolution turned increasingly violent and anti-christian many were outraged now they were being conscripted to fight for the new republic they hated that was the last straw counter revolutionary uprisings erupted in a number of regions across france some would last for years such as in the northwest where large-scale uprising was led by the owls why were they called the owls because their leader was named jean al why was he called john al possibly because he could do a really good impression of an owl really that's what we're going with owls just because this guy can do an impression of one hit him with it john yeah okay that's pretty good are you thinking about what i'm thinking about that joke yeah okay let me quickly tell you it's a joke it's an owl joke so it is relevant remember you knew what i was laughing at yeah so two hours of playing snooker no they're playing paul two hours of playing paul willing out one of them one of the owls pop the black ball and he says oh hold on that that's two hits and the rather looks at him and says two it's to work that wasn't the one that i was laughing at what were you laughing at i was laughing at the one where you know the guys who've got them shark things and they're like one of us has been possessed by an hour everyone goes who it's him jesus easily entertained easily entertained [Music] the schweineri uprising lasted all the way until 1800 in the summer of 1793 the southern city of toulon invited the british navy over for some tea and crumpets and then they asked if they'd possibly like to stay and occupy the city being an important naval base this was a heavy blow to the republic who sent a relatively unknown young captain by the name of napoleon bonaparte to help stage the siege of the city toulon was recaptured by france in the winter and for his service napoleon was promoted to the rank of brigadier general the most infamous counter-revolution however occurred in the vonde region throughout 1793 revolutionary forces clashed with the region's catholic and royal army the republic defeated the counter-revolution through cruel pacification in particular general jean-baptiste carrier committed brutal atrocities in one instance he had thousands of civilians priests women and children tied to ships which were then sunk carrier would later be found guilty of war crimes and executed back in paris the government was still dominated by moderates with the war going badly revolts in the provinces and the economy getting worse it seemed the government just wasn't doing a very good job radical's fear for the safety of the revolution intensified and marah even began calling for the moderates in the government to be executed in return the moderates called for the arrest of marawi this led to a chain of events with the two sides in a heated conflict ropes pier declared the jacobins to be an insurrection and called on the people to arm themselves it all ended on the 31st of may 1793 with the national convention surrounded by radical thank you lot and 29 moderate girondon politicians arrested from this moment on the moderates ceased to be a political force robespierre and his radicals would be in almost total control of the government and this brings us to the story of a woman named charlotte corday charlotte lived in the northwest city of kong and like many in the area was horrified at the rapid radicalization and increasing violence of the revolution and the man she blamed more than anyone was jean-paul marach she wanted to bring peace back to france and so she did something drastic she traveled to paris and told me she had a list of enemies for him to publish in his paper mara eagerly invited her in for a meeting so where's that list of enemies you promised me here it is wait a minute this isn't the list of enemies it just says yippie kaye just like that charlotte was quickly arrested and sent to the guillotine her dream of restoring peace however died with her became a martyr in temples of reason symbols of the dead became the new crucifix in debt he became an even more powerful inspiration for the extreme levels of violence that were about to rip throughout the new republic that's right here comes the reign of terror if you thought this revolution already sounds pretty violent well you ain't seen and they believed not only was france surrounded by foreign enemies but that within the masses there were also plenty of internal ones too individuals not loyal to the revolution conspiring to bring about its doubtful robespierre and the rest of the radical faction were having none of it a new committee of public safety was established with 12 members its purpose was to protect the new french republic from its enemies and it basically became a 12-man dictatorship with ropes pierre as its leading voice the revolutionary tribunal was also reinstated a special court created to streamline the process of trying suspected enemies and handing out their destinies with these two new institutions rose pierre wanted to scare france's enemies straight in september 1793 it was announced that terror would be the order of the day in other words fear had become official government policy and from then onwards we enter into the period known as the reign of terror spies and secret police were everywhere and watched the people closely francis public had to be extremely careful what they said and how they behaved obviously criticizing this new system or the government would quickly have you sent off to the guillotine but that's not all even the most minor offense could have you tried before the revolutionary tribunal hello citizen martin you know it's kind of like it's it's nowhere near the same thing but you know when people talk about like the angry mob back on twitter and when you do something wrong you have to act well otherwise the mob will come for you yeah it's that sort of similar mentality isn't it obviously it's it's different in the levels that the mob go to obviously they would cut your head off there but yeah i mean like the idea of the marble coming for you it's quite prevalent today eve if you don't act according to certain people's ideals and ideology that they'll come for you and you know the people in that ideology turn on each other so often if one of them steps out alive it just kind of reminds me because i've got to i feel like it just everyone just naturally conforms don't they yeah and if you don't and if you're not one of the conformed ones it's probably best just to keep your head down yeah and not go draw attention to that yes i feel like that's kind of increasing oh or maybe it's just social media being in that face and it's kind of like it looks like a bigger issue than it is like you hear about it so much but it's actually representative of like less than one percent of people yeah because you know when things get blown up but like it's everywhere isn't it but if it's yeah but you very rarely have someone actually approach you and yeah say that to your person yeah the most minor offense could have you tried before the revolutionary tribunal hello citizen martine hello monsieur dubois monsieur did i just hear you say monsieur that's the old style of address my friend to the guillotine you know what i didn't like him but i do feel kind of bad for the king and his family oh expressing sympathy for the royal family are we to the guillotine 12 zeus for a loaf of bread that's way overpriced to the guilty man this red line is taking forever to the guillotine and you you look like you're thinking anti-revolutionary thoughts [Music] max we're sending way too many people to the guillotine to the guillotine chop chop chop chop chop chop chop it was insane all across france about 40 000 people were killed for suspected crimes against liberties let's say your neighbor won't stop mowing the lawn at seven in the morning well then all you gotta do is tell the government they've been talking smack about the revolution and there's a good chance they'll end up in front of the revolutionary tribunal maybe they'll even be executed taking a metaphorical load off your shoulders and a literal one off theirs the most prominent victim of the reign of terror was a certain marie antoinette who is finally tried and found different before she got an assassinate i love it it's just the way that over simplified has gone to a lot of trouble to just design that and put it in there for nothing more than a gag the detail yes you're not at least in 1793 she expected should be brought to the guillotine in a royal carriage fit for a queen all the republic could provide for her however was a wooden tumble at 37 years old the most hated woman in french history met her end on the 16th of october 1793. robespierre had saved the revolution through terror internal descent was being suppressed the food situation was no longer quite as bad even the french military had got its act together again and pumped the allies at the battle of florus for danton and his followers the time was right to try to normalize the french republic hey robespie so we were thinking that since things are finally going better maybe we should reign in the terror and while we're on it we could possibly start taking it easier on the church and also try to end this costly war oh crap rose pierre seemed to go for lack of a better term a bit mental he was hell-bent on creating what he called a republic of virtue and for him this meant amping up the bloodshed even more throughout the spring and summer of 1794 executions reached an unprecedented level during a period known as the great terror even those closest to him found their way to the guillotine if they dared oppose his ideas and actions and he began alienating himself from the rest of the convention he created a new deistic religion called the cult of the supreme being along with the new annual festival of the supreme being man i think robespierre is really starting to lose it he thinks he's a god or something nonsense sure he's gone a little extreme but he doesn't think he's a god my children bathe your immortal souls in the virtue of my republic okay yeah he's completely lost websphere's ultimate mistake however came on july 26th when he made a speech to the national convention in which he said this i have in my hand a brand new list of enemies to be sent to the guillotine and many of you are on this list but i'm not going to tell you who yet what do you think of that i think we should send roast beer to the guillotine first all in favor i'm just going to say that no two days later rose pierre became the final victim of the monstrous terror and paranoia he had created he's like the virtue signaling people you see today like the kind of people that go out and like protest against poverty like he is just them to the extreme isn't it like if you give them people power average pierre is probably what you will get and that's true that that was not too long i mentioned it the other day didn't know this morning didn't you was it this morning yeah not too long ago in i think it was leicester there was a protest against poverty it's like who's for poverty but it just kind of reminded me of that virtue signaling like there was only out there purely to be like hey look i'm a good person i care about hungry people we'll do anything for a bit of internet clout like oh yeah i went to the protest i went to the protesters did you see me yeah like what's in leicester anyway there's nothing endless yeah there is there's no decision there's no decision making stuff in leicester many historical accounts of the revolution end here with the death of robespierre and his terror but the revolution officially continued for another five years until 1799. so what happened between now and then well after the fall of rob's pierre a more moderate political group called the thermadorians took control of the convention they wanted to restore stability to the government now rose pierre's allies and other radicals who had fueled the terror themselves became the target of political suppression bourgeois street fighters took on the radical lock in the streets during a period named the white terror in 1795 the thermadorians drafted a new constitution and created a government called the directory with the purpose of preventing power from being able to fall into the hands of a single individual again as this new government was being established royalists who wanted to bring the monarchy back to france saw this moment as an opportunity to strike they staged an insurrection in paris and battled with the national guard in the streets luckily one napoleon bonaparte happened to be in paris at the time and he took control of the situation firing on the crowd and putting down the insurrection from this moment on the people of paris would never again be able to stage a popular uprising and lost their control over the revolution for his actions napoleon became a general and was sent to take control of the french armies in italy the new directory remained a fairly ineffective government for the remainder of the revolution it was plagued with corruption and struggled to keep the economy afloat and as a result wasn't very popular for the people of france with the strict social customs of both royalist france and the tarragon they didn't really know what to do with themselves men no longer removed their hats when talking to women different classes began intermingling and a publication began circulating that looked a lot like a modern dating app it was social anarchy outside of france the war continued in 1795 france took the netherlands where they set up a puppet state then they negotiated both prussia and spain out of the war the british attempted to land french royalists in the west to reinforce rebellion but that plan failed in 1796 the french planned a three-pronged attack with the aim of marching on vienna and knocking austria out of the war the two northern armies were defeated and forced to retreat however napoleon in the south with groundbreaking military strategy won battle after battle after battle he pushed the austrians out of italy and began closing in on vienna the austrians freaked out and napoleon oversaw the signing of a peace treaty he had almost single-handedly knocked austria out of the war and by the way he was only 28 so maybe it's about time you moved out of your mom's basement he became a faint hero among the french people but his aspirations were still higher he briefly went off to egypt and discovered a bunch of gnarly egyptian stuff but then the british destroyed his fleet and trapped his forces say napoleon sir you're not going to leave us here stuck in egypt and return to france are you nonsense my boy i would never dream of abandoning my loyal soldiers wow what's that over there return to paris napoleon found himself to be extremely popular and the government extremely unpopular and he started getting some power hungry ideas conveniently a politician named emmanuel joseph sies approached napoleon and said hey man since you're so popular you want to help me stage a coup great idea let's stay jakku and then i'll coo you what napoleon with the help of his politician brother entered the government chamber possibly got punched in the face and finally his troops intimidated the council to dissolve the government and create a new constitution that basically made napoleon a dictator so there you have it the french revolution born with the great promise of liberty and equality the common people dared to challenge an oppressive system that had existed for centuries but before they knew it they found liberty sidelined by terror equality that possibly didn't quite hit the mark and an absolute monarchy replaced by an absolute dictator napoleon began stabilizing french society he restored the catholic church he looks like uh oswald he looks like for 28 he had a hard paper round yeah he does look pretty sharp yeah he looks like a penguin from batman returns and got rid of that crazy calendar among other things but he remained ever ambitious he was france's first consul but he slept soundly at night dreaming of being something even bigger napoleon's expansionist aspirations combined with the ongoing conflict in europe would eventually lead the continent into a huge conflict known today as i'm surprised oversimplified hasn't done the napoleonic wars like all the stuff that napoleon wants to do trying to invade like russia and britain i didn't know that the invasions by napoleon were like the same time as the russian revolution the french revolution the french revolution i thought that was more about like mary antoinette no um no he you've gone kind of like during near the end of the revolution i'm guessing that's where his time starts in the french revolution ends london earlier running war start and then yeah so what i wanted to ask you was if you could get executed in any way like what would be and you had to you had to die what would you pick uh you'd probably take me out and shoot me in the head like a dog i'd die as i live what did you want on my knees you um would you want it in the back of the head or the front of the head um the back of the head because i feel like you'd make sure that you were dead it's like you basically want to die like lenny from my cement you just want to be taken to hanzo river and just shot in the back there well you know because you've got to think about it like it's done isn't it it's over with if you've got your head cut off you can still like function for a few seconds but that but that's not an actual execution so you'd have to choose five you're in squad all right what are the actual methods i can do well just the ones from just the same i'm just assuming be one of the ones through history so like the guillotine no hung no firing squad with just one to my head no there'd be like five people although it said that in firing squads only one person actually has live rounds so there's they don't know they say they can't bear the guilt of so does only one person shoot you then yeah but it'd be with a machine gun and it's nuts that you might not get a direct head shot this is the difficult one now you've took my pain and suffering oh burnt at the stake no i think i would have to go for firing squad i think foreign squad's probably the best oh lethal injection oh how long does it take to die i'm not too sure could go for lethal injection if it just like kind of put you to sleep i think i'd take foreign squad let us know what would you guys pick i think firing squad's probably the best one i choose life i know it's funny on a lot of channels you get kind of like it's like to interact with the personal subscribers you get fairly like reasonable questions as is like if you had to die what how would you do what did you ask me today would you rather get stabbed with a sharp spoon you know would you rather would you rather get your throat slit with a with a spoon or a rusty knife with like a fairly sharp spoon though like a bit sharper than your average spoon or a rusty knife what the because i don't know which would be quicker but that's for another time let me know in the comments these are things that he asked me yeah this was on a daily basis this wasn't like half nine in the morning it's like that first words out of your mouth would you rather would you rather um yeah you know as well as that let us know what you want to see as well i guess because what's actually next in the order chronologically yeah well i think it actually be world war one but we've done that okay so then it would be the russian revolution because that was 19 17 to 23 i think okay 22 23. um yeah let us know what you want to see uh if it is oversimplified but i think we got to do a stand-up video next we have been saying that so stand-up video will be like tomorrow yeah and then another simplified so just like just get it in there yeah mix it up a little bit yeah you'll put put some stand-up comedians in the comments as well because obviously that's what we're going to be doing tomorrow so that one will happen yeah but yeah as for now you know nearly at 8k nearly nearly 8k so you know subscribe all that good stuff man and take it easy peace

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