British Guy Reacts to The French Revolution - OverSimplified (Part 2)

yo so guys welcome back to another video this is another oversimplified reaction i just want to apologize initially i've mentioned it in my last video for such a long sort of time since i've last posted with my oversimplified reactions now i'm gonna just react to just assault post part one and part two on the same day i've seen a few people say like along the lines of just postseas on the same day and then do the other random reactions on other days and that doesn't make sense to me fair i will do that from now on there isn't actually many more to do but with the ones that there is i will do that with it but yeah it's been a few days and i want to apologize for that but i remember from part one we just got to the point where the king is now going back to paris with like the grout to crop the crowd the crowd of people like the amount of people that were like outside of palace and go back to paris or something along the lines of that he's like being carried back with the crowds carried back you know what i'm trying to say but yeah i do really enjoy this series i always say this but yeah this is part two of the french revolution hopefully you guys are going to enjoy and yeah man let's just check this check this out and see what happened happened next from the last part king louis and his family were now in the tuileries palace in paris where for the next couple of years he watched as the 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 revolutionaries yep he was pissed what can it do for you hey king louis so we've made a few decisions first all of your friends in the nobility are gonna 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 great yay continually found demand after demand being made 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 bombing now around here i want to mention that one thing king louis had a problem with was people constantly raiding his palace but one thing he didn't have a problem with was raiding noobs on this video's sponsor rage shadow he's smart of his responses i can't lie man get you one you know how it is you know how i am with this man i love the fact that he's getting his getting his check player program to start your journey and i'll see you there now where was i 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 carriage 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's it's possible these days louie the 16th nope not me take him away boys the king was promptly returned being stupid at night there definitely wasn't that's just sort of their way of showing it i've gotta actually look this up now did they have passports pass but i'm gonna look so dumb here i'm gonna look so down here back in the 1800s right i don't know why i did it like this but what did i just type up not sure when i see this when i don't know why i care as much when become a thing is that the right way to say i guess it is oh they were oh so i wasn't stupid come on but probably didn't work like that but i didn't even know that i'm not gonna lie 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 to mars 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 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 off 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 and others continued to call for the execution of anyone 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 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 so they smell a bit but i wouldn't say they're revolting oh wow 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 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 robespierre 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 priestsu 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 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 of germinal our anniversary was the 12th of thermador and you promised that in frymer we'd go on a romantic weekend trip to venice no i said we'd 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 this 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 i mean obviously a revolution is always going to be brutal but some other things that are happening in this i was not expecting this kind of level men in particular no girls allowed it's rare to be brought in that room 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 acute wait you're too loud they can't hear me hang on i haven't finished yet wait dude uncool in her prison cell marie antoinette heard the guns fire signaling her husband's death before long she would meet the same fate friends france defied all expectations 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 just because this guy can do an impression of one hit him with it jon what yeah okay that's pretty good this is so funny uprising lasted all the way until 1800. what is going on in 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 vondae 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 mara 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 robspear 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 sankyu 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 comp 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 marath she wanted to bring peace back to france and so she did something drastic she traveled to paris and told mara 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 motherfu oh was no more charlotte was quickly arrested her dream of restoring peace however died with her mahrab became a martyr in temples of reason symbols of the dead marah became the new crucifix in death 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 nothing yet the radicals were now in control 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 downfall 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 robs 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 death sentences with these two new institutions robespierre 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 been crazy it's crazy different this revolution is compared to the us revolution like that sort of seemed like a a positive one in terms of like they were sort of moving to what is sort of seen as the correct way nowadays obviously hindsight is a beautiful thing and it's not good seeing people being killed of course but like just sort of the concepts of it seemed to be sort of like they're trying to be like they were trying to end slavery in a certain degree obviously it was it wasn't that simple but like in this one they just seem to be leading to a very dark road i didn't have any idea like what this revolution was going to be like but god damn i was not expecting this tried before is there any like films about this about the french revolution or the american revolution or the russian revolution which i will get to next because i would really like to see something i don't know if there would be or not but if there is let me know in the comments the revolutionary tribunal hello citizen martin hello monsieur dubois monsieur did i just hear you say monsieur that's the old style of a dress 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 guillotine man this breadline is taking forever to the guillotine and you you look like you're thinking anti-revolutionary thoughts to the guillotine he's working way too many people to the gear team to the gear team chop chop chop chop chop chop chop it was insane all across france about 40 000 people were killed for suspected crimes against liberty 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 guilty of treatment in 1793. she expected she'd be brought to the guillotine in a royal carriage wait what's it ahead now what is that 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 pummeled the allies at the battle of florus for danton and his followers the time was right to try to normalize the french republic hey robs pee 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 hmm oh crap as time went on ropes pierre seemed to go for lack of a better time 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 robespierre's ultimate mistake however he came on july 26 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 rosepier to the guillotine first all in favor don't know two days later rose pierre became the final victim of the monstrous terror wow that's crazy things work out man 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 robs pierre a more moderate political group called the thermadorians took control of the convention they wanted to restore stability to the government now robespierre's allies and other radicals who had fueled the terror themselves became the target of political suppression bourgeois street fighters took on the radical thank you lock in the streets during the crazier things turn out man it's crazy karma comes back and bites you in the ass man it's crazy 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 and 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 napoleon became a famed hero 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 gonna 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 on his 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 enter 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 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 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 oh wow something that i don't know about the napoleon the napoleonic wars i swear it's not a it's not a series or a video on this i don't know anything about this i don't think i've even heard about this i mean it sounds somewhat familiar but again i'm interested to see this and i'm going to probably do a reaction this if there is a video on it wait has you done one let's just search up oh yes i think he hasn't oh yes no he hasn't that's another channel never even heard of it though i mean but i'm down to do more oversimplified i do love this channel like you guys love these reactions i don't know why it's went to that spot why has it went to this one i've just finished the reaction youtube is strange youtube is so messed up for being oversimplified this is actually more detailed than my high school history class about this revolution every hundred years in france and embarrasses our impression was [ __ ] frank's votes out the king king louis was not the imposter one imposter remains france what napoleon so other holy night so are the napoleonic wars coming next i guess there's a tax for that i'm assuming they didn't but maybe i could do another video on that maybe on my second channel we'll see man so robert's pierre was basically stalin but clean-shaven and the french when they discovered the king's identity they punished him severely hooray wait what is le in french again always laying french again i should know this that's like the simplest thing yeah french meaning is it like this is the that's it i don't know why i should shouldn't i shouldn't know that because that's not the simplest thing you learn in like french fast isn't it real fact they recognize the king by looking at her coin person breathes probably to the killer team i love this channel man i really do i love learning about these things and just the comedy that he has behind it i don't know why i mean maybe they've changed it now because this these are all quite new videos and i left school in 2017 2017 god i'm getting old man 2017 was 2016 2017 that's 2017. i'm pretty sure it was 2017 what am i even talking about and these i'm guessing these when was his first video released i'm sorry i'm rounding at this point um oldest four years ago that was actually out when i was at school but i didn't actually learn history at this point i chose geography but i mean if we learned this if we had these things in school man it would be so much better just oversimplified videos are so much more enjoyable to watch so much better man if we had this stuff in school history would have been so fun and now i'm actually enjoying learning and it's just like why couldn't have been this enjoyable in school because i would then be knowledgeable i know i'm so clueless when it comes to this kind of stuff and it's just it's kind of sad but it is what it is but i hope you guys didn't enjoy this reaction and yeah until next time what was favorite even going to say i was going to say i was going to say something i forgot i'm calling right i tried i have absolutely gone hopefully you guys enjoyed this and until next time like subscribe peace

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Published: Wed Nov 11 2020