''The French Revolution'' - OverSimplified REACTION (Part 1)

and welcome again french revolution part 1 coming at you tonight's episode from over simplified to it don't know if I've got too many more oversimplified gift Jacob I'm not sure okay we're running out of them slightly we've done the I still wars the American Revolution we've done that we've done the who would die leave a playlist on there at some point yeah I might be cool yeah yeah my brain but yeah we're going to take a look at this the second part will become so so yeah the part so long we are aware of that so our G that's gopher this video was made possible by Nord VPN get protected by clicking the link below and get an amazing 75% off that's only $2.99 per month with an additional month free for a limited time also knew French Revolution March available now in the store including King Louie and Marie Antoinette character pins and think about catchable heads just like the real thing so I said to the Marquis de Lafayette what do you think I am some dirty peasant I've never worked a day in my life Wow that Marie Antoinette sure is pretty sure is wouldn't want to be Prince Louisa that's gonna be a lot of responsibility when he becomes king especially since France is in financial ruin quite thank you one and all for attending the royal marriage of my grandson the future King of France to the Archduchess of Austria now for the very awkward yet historically accurate part of the ceremony where we all watch them get into bed together alright now that's out of the way let's leave the royal couple to it you better give us an air you fat ill-bred boy nighty-night responsibility France is in financial ruin you fat ill-bred boy quite that's gonna be a lot of responsibility let's go in circles Stifler okay oh great he's a freaking weirdo [Music] France the most prosperous cultured and beautiful nation in the world as it had been for centuries an exquisite social culture with the king in the upper classes throwing crazy parties every night enjoying high living and fine dining who cares that they were only able to do two off the backs of the hard-working starving poor what are they gonna do revolt there are only 80 percent of the population no life in France is great what's that French you want to go to war with Britain and increase your power go for it little buddy you do you and you're lost now you're in severe financial debt we have no money what do we do should we stop partying heck no party harder that's okay the peasant will pick up the slack they were created by God to do all the work and you were created to reap all the benefits and party hard that's just how society works and we've all just accepted it for centre trade why why what why did the nobility get to feel rich and stuff just because they were born into it and the rest of us shucks just have to accept that help why do we even need a king who decided that it all just seems very unfair and unequal and I for one am starting to question it wow that's very enlightened of you and so began the Age of Enlightenment great philosophical thinkers across France and Beyond began to question whether this beautiful nation was really all that beautiful after all hey Prince Louie bad news your grandpa died of smallpox this morning which means good news you're now the king so just to sum up friends is in severe financial debt and the angry populace are beginning to question how necessary you are but hey I believe in you champ maybe maybe no Prince Louie kepe became King Louie the sixteenth in May 1774 he was a notoriously weak man and he knew it he barely had the wisdom to rule a nation never mind one in crisis and he was gaily manipulate those around him one of his first acts to get revenge on the British by financing their American colonies revolution hey we're an independent nation that was real swell of you Louie couldn't have done it without you glad I could help so hey about all that money we lent you when yeah you're a great guy I'll never forget what you've done for us real glad I could help friend but about that money gotta go now chump best of luck to you all the prince was in even more debt France is poor suffering under the strain of economic ruin watched as the nobility continued to live as though nothing was wrong in particular they grew increasingly disdainful of the Queen Marie Antoinette as she continued to spend all of France's money on her own luxurious lifestyle and fashion while the peasants were breaking their backs in the fields she was walking around like hey my hair is about I'm not making that up her hair really was about and her lavish spending grew through the neck I'm a damn deficit and speaking of the Queen there was a scandal around the fact that the King took a very long time to boink her and the classes of Paris began ridiculing the royal couple with lewd pamphlets depicting the Queen as a court thought and the king is a wuss unable to fulfill his marital duty respect for the monarchy was at an all-time low as Frances finances were spiraling out of control and the king and his aides really only had one solution to the crisis tax the poor tax the poor we hi sexy calendar shoot I mean tax the poor and so it was the poor who were already struggling to make ends meet found themselves being taxed from every direction hey I'm the Royal tax collector looks like you've yet to pay your income tax head tax by the way how many windows you got in that house here's three yeah there's gonna be a text for that hey your local priest here have you paid your church tithe yet well at least this one is going to the good work of God or god I think this year God wants me to buy a new swimming pool oh and I brought some goons with me just a few quick questions how much salt did you buy this year about seven kilos I think yep okay there's gonna be a tax for that oh what's that over there and that's extra sold I held over from last year so I wouldn't have to buy as much this year oh yeah there's a tax for that and what are you doing with all this salt well obviously cooking mm-hmm on the table yep and preserving fish and meat Oh Oh No yeah there's a nice fillet how old is he he's nine and so he's purchased his required amount of salt for this year right what no he's nine oh sorry little Timmy looks like I'm gonna have to tax you for that that cowboy yep salty there's gonna be a tax for that and that's not all a huge portion of the peasants harvest had to be given up and there was also the labor tax where peasants were required to work a certain number of days for their local lord without pay obviously people weren't to have the taxation policy and the aggressive nature of these private tax farmers sometimes even escalated to really hate it how inconsistent that taxation rules were across the nation and also the fact that the first two estates often had to pay very little if any tax at all and so the anger continued to grow friends had a population that was just about ready to explode what could push them over the edge how about a touch of natural disaster a series of harsh summers and winters left the peasants harvests in ruin meaning they had no food or money and the cost of bread skyrocketed of course the upper classes had massive stocks of grain and wheat so they were virtually untouched by this new crisis but now the poor really were starving and they began to write woman that's real horrendous already what first part of this program says they feel one of them the working class call people and you struggling in life already because your countries can complete like recession if that's what y'all call it and then they follow that yeah well there that yeah there is the balanced politicians and kings always playing it is how much can we get before we have to start giving back you know what can we before people get too angry and obviously what do you not think it's not like ignorant oaf academic there's no TVs there's no not really newspapers I don't believe in the 18th century you didn't have obviously the Internet you know how many of the hierarchy people you know real privileged out there they extend it the wealthy how bad did they know it really was well they didn't live obviously they just carried on they carried on it sounded like it was wasn't now same do they just ignored it would ask the thing probably full there above for anyone didn't they I mean they got armies on that and that weren't likely which sent the child if they killed a free Pete was it quiet it was a very different world back there I'm gonna have structures whilst ourselves like roaches took to the streets bakeries were raided and Baker's suspected of keeping bread for themselves where sometimes even hanged wow this is really getting out of control your majesty we need some decisive action you need to step up and lead us what will you do ok ok I've got this I know I'll summon the estates-general and they'll decide what to do you really are a fat ill-bred boy the estates-general is the closest thing france had to a government apart from the king it was a purely advisory body and was rarely summoned in fact it hadn't been summoned for a hundred and seventy five years prior to this but with France in a severe crisis the King kept the government to help the Estates General was made up of representatives in the three estates that is the clergy the nobility and everybody else ok thanks for coming everyone and the first order of business is regarding the clergy and nobility you all get brand-new Porsches you get a Porsche and you get a Porsche and you get a Porsche everybody gets a Porsche and now into the second order of business France is completely out of money like it's never been this bad before anyone got any ideas how about we all get Lamborghinis next time they can decided that in order to make a decision they had to come up with a voting system okay the clergy you have a population of a hundred and thirty thousand so you'll get one vote the nobility you have a population of 350,000 so you'll also get one vote and the Third Estate you have a population of 27 million people and make up 98% of the population very impressive you'll get one vote the Third Estate were obviously pretty unhappy with this system because they kept on finding that this would happen we proposed to raise taxes over 30 state all in favor all opposed two to one taxes will be raised on the third estate we propose a motion that says the first two estates are a bunch of poo poo heads all in favor all opposed two to one it's official we are not poo poo heads the Third Estate realized that Blake how effects it would be a devoted by the two upper estates and they thought that was kind of lame so they decided that since they were 98% of the population they could go off to form their own government make their own laws and take over the running of the country also the National Assembly was born the Third Estate was now in control and there was nothing the king could do to stop ha ha I've locked you all out of your building what are you gonna do about it we'll probably go find a different building that isn't locked although the National Assembly did find another unlock building just down the road by an indoor tennis court we're on the 20th of June 1789 they all took the tennis court ah-ho pledging to continue meeting until the king finally gave in to their demands for more equality and economic reform this new National Assembly included many of the most educated members of the Third Estate including two young lawyers by the names of maximilien robespierre and Jorge Antonio some members of the first two estates enjoying their cause some of these men formed a radical new political party called the Jacobin Club and quickly became leading figures while many members of the Third Estate simply wanted more equality a growing number in this Jacobin faction would begin calling for something even crazier the removal of the king entirely and this is where fear began to take hold with such a volatile situation developing everyone was afraid of something the king feared his position was under threat and he called in the military to take position around Paris the Third Estate heard rumor of the gathering military force and they feared the king was planning to round them up and arrest them maybe he'd even execute them it also didn't help that the king had just dismissed france's popular finance minister who had been trying to make reforms himself it seemed the king was done negotiating fear left unchecked often boils over into anger and anger detonates with violence the angry people of Paris after centuries of cruel inequality harsh oppression even starvation fearful of having their new movement for reform demolished so soon decided that it was now or never to take action screw reform they decided they'd do one better how about revolution the people of Paris believing the French military was preparing to attack decided they should armed themselves the National Assembly announced the creation of a bourgeois militia the National Guard and immediately many troops from the French military defected over to the revolutionary side in the early hours of July 14th 1789 a large crowd stormed and raided the hotel they on valle de a military hospital where they were able to see a large mural Rifles the bad news was they weren't able to find any gunpowder for their new weapons the good news was they knew exactly where to get some a prison fortress and a symbol of royalty ranee towering over Paris the Bastille mid-morning the crowd gathered around the Bastille and demanded that the man in charge governor de Launay surrendered the prison and hand over the gunpowder obviously governor de l'année was like no way so he stalled for time by inviting a few members of the crowd in for negotiations the crowd still waiting outside quickly became impatient and before long they stormed the fortress taking on the French troops inside your majesty we've received word that the people have surrounded the best steel governor de l'année will hold them off no need to worry actually your majesty it appears the crowd is now headed away from the Bastille you see what did I tell you clearly governor de l'année has defeated them and has them on the run no need to worry your majesty isn't that governor delauneys well clearly governor de l'année has taken on the form of a bodyless pike head daddy and the people are so enamored with him they're parading him around the city no need to worry at when the National Assembly heard about the violence that had taken place they had two options either one they denounced it and try to carry on the revolution using peaceful means they say damn you stuck his head on a pike that's pretty hardcore and we love it incidentally they went with option number two some historians sleepy less reaction paved the way for the utter violence and bloodshed that would become the legacy of the French Revolution this widespread acceptance of violence during the revolution is also largely credited to the writings of a certain genre and men of science with a horrible skin condition that kept him confined to a bathtub he began writing a radical newspaper he affectionately named the friend of the people citizens of France be very afraid given the chance the king and the nobility won't hesitate to Massacre us all the solution is simple execute them kill every last one of them then cut off a thousand heads and if that's not enough cut off a thousand more oh hey mr. squeaky what are you doing down there you're so cute oh I love you too mr. squeaky mmm now where was I oh yeah kill them all it became one of the most popular publications in Paris during the Revolution and succeeded in spreading ever increasing fear and anger among the people in August leaders of the National Assembly with help from a certain Thomas Jefferson adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the citizen an incredible document that guaranteed liberty and equal rights to all men and when I say men I mean men despite its glaring shortcomings in gender equality the massively influential declaration would go on to inspire the struggle for liberty and equality across the planet for centuries however back the vast majority of the people with enlightened ideas of equality as much as they were concerned with the fact that they were still starving bread was still expensive as hell and hard to come by the people felt that one reason nothing had been done yet about the crisis was because the king simply couldn't see the problem he lived in Versailles a full 20 kilometers an hour and as a result he survived and comfort separated from his dirty stinking subjects on October Finn a crowd of women seven thousand strong decided that do something unprecedented they decided that removed that separation and confront the King directly the war king's palace and press stops along the way and when they arrived they demanded an audience with the king what are those things outside the palace they're poor people your majesty that's poor people they say they're hungry Wow see this is the exact BS that led to this whole mess in the first place you're so out of touch they're writhing around in the filth breaking their back to barely scrape by and they come to you demanding just the basic ability to feed themselves and you think a slice of cake will sort them out well then let them eat Taco Bell Crunchwrap supreme Wow they're not that desperate members of the crowd that really managed to break into the palace with the intention of killing the queen who narrowly escaped through a secret passage in her bedroom Oh killed several members of the Royal Guard and raised their heads on pikes which I haven't noticed at some points the King had no choice but to come out and talk to the crowd he agreed to accept the audition sharing power with the Revolutionary Government and to return to Paris with the crowd removing the separation between King and subject King Louie had a problem with people constantly raiding his palace but one thing he didn't have a problem with was people raiding his computer because he used Nord VP and girlfriend then you need to check out Nord VPN with over 5,000 servers in 60 countries it allows you to surf the net anonymously and safely with no personal data yes you'll be easy to use you can drink to a server in Japan with just a peg but then while you're there why not check out some sweet Japanese Netflix or maybe you want to honor 40 seconds ago that yeah after you seen enough of the North VPN so yeah bommies check out the Orpheum VPN and help out the over simplified channel by clicking their link on their channel I'll leave a link to that video in our description anyway but yeah that King is pretty useless yeah I mean yeah just when you see the news lately you just go you know you got mad chrome and that and you just don't think anything of it but like you used to have a king I know you know it I mean they used to have what we have and I just pushed it too far don't know I'm just like no you're you're in the ground people you're gonna go a bit further we're gonna push it that's the hard showing to come times you know I mean you knew this kind of stuff went on I know vasila for you it's such a great way I mean it's a little bit comical but it also brings it down there yeah just like the home not so easy to remember and brick pops it back into your mind disgusting I know I'll see how that poor and literally be treated even poor just so they can feed their own ugly greedy selves yeah I'm sure it happens in other countries it still happens nowadays their email address their boat with sales on that over their calendars on those wrong I like that's just weird where that bird cage shot it part way through yeah she's just worried I don't think they had Porsches back in 1700 and she just had a lambda game Lamborghinis is some very quick horses maybe yeah and they're fortunate they have my old think they have some beautiful buildings out there don't know I can see where they went from like the people working so like the rich I mean some of the buildings are so elaborate beautiful in the art and everything I mean only the rich were the had all that rich they're like the cream the queen she escapes she's gonna be a part suit she got for a secret passage boy they keep playing them on his hands on the pike on spike dishes their way around for the King did she the blower here is just use as well I guess be honest we're going to see more of that though part two so be sure to subscribe I look forward to seeing where that one's going to end up as but yeah I'm still quite shocked about that's know your thoughts in the comments below on an hour see you all soon catch you on the flipside [Music]

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Length: 21min 6sec (1266 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 28 2020