YouTubers React to The French Revolution - OverSimplified Part 2

[Music] what up youtube welcome to chicago reacts my name is jared joined by the beautiful kelly today we're gonna be reacting to the french revolution over simplified part two suggested by the hungry fox jumps hungry fox chumps we all know who they are right be sure to like and subscribe to our channel for more of our content french revolution just watch part one definitely learned a little bit but still got a lot more to learn so let's go let's jump into it let's let's just fox jump right into it king louis and his family were now in the tuileries palace in paris 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 i'm your number one fan what can i 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 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 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 raid shadow legends raid shadow legends is a brand new collection rpg game with amazing 3d graphics an awesome storyline and giant boss fights all free to play on your phone there's over 400 champions for you to collect and customize and crazy battles and events that will get you hooked immediately you can find me in the game under the nickname oversimplified and if you're quick enough and cool enough you can join my clan go to the video description click on the special links and you will instantly get 50 000 silver and a free epic champion as part of the new player program to start your journey good luck and i'll see you there now where was i oh yeah seeing the situation turning against it might be a good 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 but 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 passion it says here you're king louie the 16th nope no nope no sir who take him away boys the kings promptly returned to paris no way 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 seventeen nineteen i get it completely reduced his powers to that of a simple figurehead a constitutional monarchy 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 du 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 oh my god 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 and the man is no more the guillotine otherwise the national razors the guillotine made its debut in 1791 as the new form of execution the writings of maha and others continue to call for the execution of anyone suspected of working against the revolution south park vibes again 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 they're revolting oh yes i see it increasingly everyone's just killing each other fleeing france defines 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 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 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 primary we'd go on a romantic weekend trip to venice no i said would do that nearly 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 georges 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 wonders are these the rights yeah is this the liberty of human nature but there was still one man in particular that robespierre 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 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 no way for real dude i know that louis louie king not louie signaling her husband's death before long she would meet the same fate back on the war front france defiled 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 radical revolutionary fervor some of the regions outside of paris weren't quite so keen on the revolution some were largely still conservative still orthodox jewish 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 a 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 that's pretty good yeah 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 table basically who sent a relatively unknown young captain by the name of napoleon bonaparte to help stage the siege of the city 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 von dais 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 executed in return for the arrest of morocco this led to a chain of events with the two sides in heated conflict robespierre 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 gerondon politicians arrested from this moment on the moderates ceased to be a political force robs pierre 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 marat she wanted to bring peace back to france and so she did something drastic she traveled to paris and told mirage 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 [ __ ] and just like that no way yeah wow charlotte i was quickly arrested and sent to the guillotine her dream of restoring peace however dude people are reckless became a martyr in temples of reason symbols of the dead became the new crucifix in death he became an even more powerful inspiration for the extreme the violence that were able 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 son the radicals 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 robespierre 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 robs 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 martine 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 twelve seuss for a loaf of bread that's way overpriced max we're sending way too many people to the gear team to the gear team chop chop chop chop chop chop chop it was insane for real friends 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 imagine the most prominent victim of the reign of terror the 1700s are reckless i just want to say no for real was a certain marie antoinette who is finally tried and found guilty of treason 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 ropes pierre 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 flores for danton and his followers the time was right to try to normalize the french republic hey rob's p 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 can possibly start taking it easier on the church and also try to end this costly war hmm to the guillotine oh my goodness for lack of a better term i can't believe that you just can't say anything could you imagine that creating what he called mental health 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 immortals the virtue of my republic okay yeah he's completely lost yeah his ultimate mistake however came on july 26th oh yeah he made a speech to the national convention in which what do you think of that i think we should send ropes beer to the guillotine first all in favor i agree no no two days later rose pierre became the final victim of the monstrous terror paranoia he had created a good run many historical accounts of the revolution end here with the death of rebs pierre 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 ropes 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 sancular 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 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 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 do you want to help me stage a coup great idea let's stay jakku and then i'll coo you what italian what the hell 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 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 different times of that crazy calendar among other things but he remained ever empty i'm sure he was francis but he slept 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 yup wow the french revolution there you have it folks pretty messed up yeah all this stuff is messed up i honestly feel like these videos though like whoever um what is it the hungry fox jumps like they make good videos so like i feel like it should be like in school because i feel like if i saw this when i was in school it's easier to learn than reading a book it kind of does take me back to like you know watching movies and like yeah social studies in middle school you know that's kind of what what i feel like i'm i'm doing but it's like yeah i like it i like it it's easier to digest the information right like it's easier to learn it this way than reading a book for sure you know what i mean because this like obviously me and you like our reactions are like oh my gosh like we didn't know that like half of this stuff yeah i think it's yeah very educational but um yeah robespierre awful awful human what a what a terrible human being robespierre um i feel like french france was just run by awful people rose pierre yeah the guy was in the bathtub jean jean milord or whatever just a terrible terrible person yeah then you got napoleon i mean they were just they just never had anybody with any sense of morals yeah in their country so they were just like chop chop chop yeah everybody chop chop chop so um yeah francis francis had it rough man that was that was tough to watch i could not imagine it was it was cool it was not like the guillotine and stuff that was that was crazy like that was too much yeah but it wasn't again it was in cartoon form so it made it seem a little bit less intense yeah right but like in real life i know i had to catch myself too like i was like huh like i know he's trying to make light of it but i was like wait like that's actually serious like that happened that's crazy i couldn't imagine like living in those times yeah thank god we're we're living in 20 years yeah this is such a better year right um yeah so uh that was the french revolution oversimplified part two from the hungry fox jumps thank you for watching this video be sure to like and subscribe and check out our other videos if you want us to react to something else let us know down below in the comments and we'll see you guys next time

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Published: Sun Feb 07 2021