Building Versailles: A King’s Obsession For Magnificence | Rise & Fall Of Versailles | Real Royalty
Louis XIV was so powerful he took his name from the sun itself. So dominant he made the haughtiest aristocrats bend to his will. He was so insatiable that no one mistress could satisfy him for long. Throughout a long and turbulent life, Louis sought magnificence in all things. At the heart of this was the worlds most famous palace…Versailles
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Props to the cameraman for recording this and waiting patiently for 400+ years before sending this masterpiece. 👏
Yes. Masterpiece.
Derp 😒
I've actually seen a post where a girl wondered how cameramen filmed flipper back in the day before they were scuba gear could they hold their breath that long
@@mandiemoore3272 what are u talking about old lady?
waited quite a while😳😅
The actor that played Louis was brilliant. Bravo!
Yeah George Blagdon, he is hot 🔥 x
I agree........
He played Athelstan in Vikings and Grantaire in Les Miserables
And beautiful. Nothing like the real Louis.
@@elaiinejennings5426 Samuel Theis is the actor, not George Blagdon.
Versailles is incomprehensible... when I saw it, I gasped. The Hall of Mirrors is beyond beautiful... During the revolution items were removed from the building; but, Noone was permitted to harm the building or the grounds... the pride of France. Versailles is a gift to all of us from Louis XIV.
Versailles was beyond belief and yes the hall of mirrors is beyond beautiful ♥️
The vanity
v.true
You “saw it?” Wow
@@anniebnannie9945Yes, The Sun God. Vanity. Sad but true, all the revered palaces & churches are built by vanity
I keep coming back to this portion of this 3 part documseries in particular because I'm taken aback at how good this actor is for Louis. He's PHENOMENAL
Hola , como se llama esta serie ?
@@gretchenfernandez6699 es una serie de documentales sobre louis 14,15, y 16. No tienen el mismo título, pero son 3 partes, con esta siendo el comienzo
Samuel Theis
When I first saw the Galerie de Glaces I was lucky to be there on a quiet day. There were perhaps just ten people in the gallery all at the one end. As I stepped forward I must have had the same experience as the Sun King, seemingly just me and the long sweep of the gallery. It was an unbelievable experience, and, to be honest, I felt so overwhelmed by the beauty that tears were stinging my eyes. Something I shall never forget.
Yes I felt the same I was overwhelmed in a way is a gift
you're probably luckier than most of the poor commoner back then, that never get to see how their greedy king wasting their tax money on his desires and fantasies.
@@BasicEnglish1o1 The theory of how everything is relative.
Wowwww, your personal experiences seem wondrous. I'm in awe, of the possible reality. Blessings. I know, I would weep, also.
What time of year was this? I was in paris for a couple of days early this past December and it was great. Not many tourists at all! I'm thinking this would be a great time to see Versailles as well and I plan on returning possibly this coming December.
@1:36. Director to actors: "Now walk thru the swamp up to your knees in the mud". Wardrobe supervisor: faints.
I watched this in one sitting. It was magnificent. Such beauty. Beautiful costumes, Beautiful paintings. Very handsome actor playing the King. I enjoyed it immensely. I had the pleasure of visiting Versailles 20 or so years ago. And the gardens were breathtaking.
These guys make really good documentaries. The actor who plays the king is very handsome
Samuel Theiss
I can't believe I finished the whole thing. This was so well made, it made me imagine what it was like back then. I even cried a little at the end because beautiful Versailles is Louis XIV legacy. Thanks to him and to all who was part of it
@Ânyà Štár 🤗 hello!
I cries at the end too. Excellent presentation
Ashame their wars put France into debt..and couldn't handle a few bad years of crops..
Why are these kings so horrible a th raising their heirs
dont cry boo boo
Disappointed that his brother isn’t spoken of, who he was rather close to and was a prominent force in the court..... I didn’t realise that behind the main palace were extensive outer buildings the size of palaces to house the nobles, servants etc....oh to think how much money all that cost to run, keep, pay staff etc...on a daily basis!...
how is this free? So high quality yet on youtube free to watch and learn and marvel at the incredible life and accomplishments of one of France's icons
Pyramids, Versailles.. all these grand architecture couldn’t have been built without the sacrifice of the less fortunate. The glory of power and beauty is in fact quite ugly underneath.
Absolutely. We must not forget this. I admire the palace, but one gold curtain hanger in the king's bedroom was worth more than the entire possessions of a peasant's family. The system of government, the ancien regime, had the peasants paying all the taxes and fighting all the wars, in addition to doing the hard labour, whilst the nobility lived the life of Riley. When we see this, can we say such a wonderful country? In all fairness, the subsequent kings Louis XV and XIV tried desperately to reform government, but without success, and ultimately it led, of course, to revolution.
Was thinking the same.
Period.
Thought the same. If you were the one building it, it would sicken you.
Ewes did not build even THIS. This is EweToo(b). "THEY" are generations ahead of ewes with both a Vision and a Plan. Ewes have neither. If ewes ever hope to catch up, "see" beyond your lifetime. Epochal Eclipse April 8th 2024. Don't stare at the sun. Jonah 4: 11
blessings to the cameraman for waiting 500+ to finally post this masterpiece 😭
While watching this video as an assignment for a class, I expected myself to be bored and uninterested. Surprisingly, I actually enjoyed it. The video was very fascinating and interesting. King Louis was all about flashy things. He desired compliments and words of affection and the minute things were not suiting his desire for admiration he changed it. Take his mistresses for example, he moved from mistress to mistress each one more dedicated to him then the next. Louis XIV also made sure all his buildings were something others would marvel along. Things that would leave people speechless and with his legacy. Take his envelope design for example he wanted something different, something new and unique. Something people would be awed by. And he did it at the expense of the townspeople. Although I think Versailles is beyond beautiful, I can’t help but imagine the poor people of France at that time and how they were treated during and after Versailles was built. The obscene cost of this palace seems to me that the kings who held most to their “blood right” were the very despots who could not have cared less for the people they were supposed to care for. Not only did Louis show extreme discourtesy to his subjects he was also a mockery of a man towards the women in his life. Louis XIV did things extremely backwards, giving his mistress 20 rooms and his wife 11. He not only loved his mistress more than he loved his wife but also had multiple mistresses throughout his lifetime. He discarded each one faster than the last. In the end of the documentary, I stand by the statement that Versailles is incomprehensible regardless of the pain and exertion used to make their self-centered king happy.
It's insane the Palace of Versailles has so much history revolve around this specific place in the western world.
Evidently, ladies still get the tingles for him 400 years later.
I thought I was tripping the blonde First Lady had me like he built on a swamp and don’t listen. But they panties was wet.
He was beating so many people I’m confused why they were so giddy
Although I naturally agree that Versailles is beyond beautiful, I can’t help but imagine the plight of desperately poor people of France at that time and, when viewed from this perspective, every superlative applied to the King’s vision simply highlights the obscene _human_ cost of this palace. And it also seems to me that the kings who held most fervently to their “divine right” were the very despots who could not have cared less for their poorest subjects, a very sick juxtaposition to be sure.
sometimes i think about the fact that it smelled very badly in the palace and that people would leave their wastes everywhere
yes, and the french have completely adopted this same time of attitude even to this day and especially with the RULING CLASS OF LEFTIST LIBERAL LIBTARDS OF THE MARXIST COMMUNIST SOCIALIST FASCIST NAZI MENTALITY. the "elite" who RULE OVER FRANCE today have the exact same demeanor, attitude and ideology of the DIVINE RIGHT OF SOCIALIST RULE because of their INFALLIBLE belief in a "higher moral superiority" LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISEASE AND LIBTARDS ARE ABSOLUTELY INSANE!
I think you can, we have billionaires dictating policies and spending money racing each other to space, while people die of hunger and preventable diseases.
@@CMaldonado1690 There is an argument to be made for mankinds future lying in space and settling on new worlds. Be that as it may; what if billionares would use their wealth to feed those who can't feed themselves? Their population would increase and you would create even more mouths to feed until you have exhausted your resources. Charity only creates further dependancy. Only self sufficiency can solve that problem, and a lot has been done towards that goal. That being said: if you feel so strongly about that issue, nothing prevents you from using some of your own disposable income to donate to such a cause.
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Very rich imaginations, dreams, perseverance, beauty, obsession, all for the of his Kingdom and of himself, that lives through times.Magnificent craftmanships, art works, sacrifices, resources and love.
I've watched many documentaries on this family of royals, in particular, and this one kept my interest, all the way through. 🙌
Versailles was beautiful when I visited a few years ago. They only opened part of the structure as the rest was under renovation, and in a short few hours, I could only manage to take photos as quickly as I could, and managed only to stroll part of the Grand Trianon, and didn't have the chance to visit the Petit Trianon. Trop magnifique.
This is exceptional documentary. I've always marveled at his ambition and perfectionism. Yes, to work as the architect and gardener must have been taxing. I hope to visit someday ... on Life List! Loved all the comments below.
He kept the families of the powerful men of what we now call France, hostage at the ever growing Versailles. A gildered cage of luxury. Thus came his wealth and his national power.
"his cherubic face" - yes, if his portraits are all you go by. both louis xiv and elizabeth i - among many other notables throughout history - survived smallpox, and thus would have had pockmarks on their face, among other places. it is interesting to ponder what blemishes and disfigurements portrait and court artists omitted throughout the ages.
“When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up.”
😂
I've been there. Place is unreal. My tour guide gave a great lecture. The ceilings are ill son! Paris and Versailles are art. You could stare at one building all day.
I am British, i've visited and seen the Versailles palace and Buckingham palace in London. Versailles palace wins. It's really stunning. Buckingham palace is soo ugly compared to Versailles.
@@MohammedAli-mf8oy Woooooooow! I am overwhelmed by the reality of its grandure. I'm excited for the experience. Splendor.
I love that I can recognize Lady Antonia Fraser's voice before she's even on screen. She's rather iconic.
My god what an amazing production not one second was wasted very well done! Loved it!
This Palace is Social Media at it's finest lol. I can imagine the lives at the party and reels of what was going on lol. Since the King liked to dance Tiktok would have been fun for him. This was great Doc!
What a guy. " You're taking too long with your dress, where is the maid! I shall return! "
I liked the final scene showing the decrepit and world-weary Louis XIV and Madame de Maintenon, a great reminder that even the greatest of us must part with everything sooner or later.
That power and wealth are pointlessbeyond a certain limit...
@@europeanamerican7658 It's good to be the king. :)
The actor playing Louis is absolutely gorgeous and his voice..ohhh la la! 😍
Brilliant production and of course the film was as well. Just a crying shame that the only opportunity I had to visit, most of the Palace was closed and alas I am too ill to travel. In my next life 🙏🙏
Get better soon!
Sorry to hear that. I am a pensioner, and visited the palace, alone would you believe, when I was 15. The memory is still vivid.
Get better soon 👍
@@paoladimeo412 thankyou 🙏
What film?
And Louis XVI paid the price for the excesses of Louis XIV. The revolutionaries got the wrong guy/people. Kudos to that mother.
Didn't realize an hour had gone until the end, thank you for keeping this on KZhead.
Not sure how many times I've watched this! Absolutely love that it was recreated opposed to just narrated 💓 I wish there were more of these!
I cant even imagine being a laborer on a site like that in those days. I worked construction for a couple of years until beint offered a job with an Hvac contractor which i did for 10 years. Modern construction work is nothing compared to what these men and women endured. In all honesty the only real discomfort i endured was rhe blazing summer heat. If one wasnt accustomed to working with their hands and lifting it may be hard today but even then someone with reasonable mental toughness can over rcome that and do fine.
EXCELLENT. I'm going through all the videos on this channel because of this series. Keep up the good work!!!
Bravo, a sumptuous documentary, felt so authentic. Brilliant attention to detail and Brilliant actors 👏
Thank You Very much for taking the time to recreate this part of France's History to which I truly enjoyed immensely Bravo bravo 👏 😀
What a fascinating time in history! Louis the Sun King... he was also known as 'La Petite Bete' (The Little Beast) among certain circles 😏 Interesting fact... the Hope diamond was once his prized possession, known then as the French Blue. The film clips from the French documentary look fabulous! I would love to see in it's entirety! 💙👑
The full documentary is a 3 part series called “the rise and fall of versailles”
Versailles is the most glorious glamorous palace in the world.
This production is really well done . I wish they would have cover when and how he lost his son and grandson
this was a 4 part French TV docu drama.. love it.
Louis the 14th took his name from the sun itself? Damn, I never knew the sun was called Louis the 14th
Damn, that's pretty crazy
Several years ago while vacationing in NOLA, a museum exhibit had the impeccable artifact of king louis, absolutely mind blowing
Such an interesting look back into the life of King Louis XIV. Thanks for the engaging video and great history lesson.
I stumbled onto this video and, to my surprise, I watched the whole thing! It was very well done and the actor playing Louis was very charismatic and engaging.
I’m loving all these new series. I binged them all ! Never stop producing them.
Bravo! I finally find what I have been looking for a long time 🙏. It is an eye opener about behind the scean on the making of one of world's greatest building/treasures at Versailles 400 years ago. The technology used and the suffering of the builders might be left for discussion by historians but no doubt those guys then possess one hell of a skill and imagination. What a marvelous monument they left for France if not the world, and what an eternal name they wrote on the golden books of history! His majesty the emperor possess the good old boys character to his bed room and that makes me and him amigos 😂. Good evening from the rainy city of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia 🇪🇹.
Can't have enough of Louis XIV!!
This was so well made & so informative! Thank you for all your hard work
This is a most excellent documentary, I enjoyed it very much! Of course I rang the tiny bell so I will see more quality documentaries.
So we'll done! Great documentary, I will definitely be watching again
Beautiful documentary everyone involved! And his legacy is still alive and gorgeous today well done!
This is the King whose narcissistic, wasteful spending bankrupted France - and ultimately led to the beheading the good Louis XVI who could not quickly enough undo the damage of what had gone before...if Such is life: often the innocent must pay for the misdeeds of the self-absorbed.
Wow I totally agree with your comment and it’s very rare to see people actually acknowledge that Louis XIV was the one who led France to ruin and not Louis XVI or Marie Antoinette as some people choose to believe. Meanwhile Louis XVI did some questionable decisions, he was never taught how to reign. And his Grandfather Louis XV also ruined France’s economy terribly. Then two kids were put on a throne to reign when they weren’t supposed to. No wonder they didn’t know how to manage a country and at the end of the day they were blamed for their ancestors action’s.
Omg 😲
Narcissistic and wasteful? How mistaken you are my friend. Don't you realize that 82 million tourists visit France to see the glory of the sun king? imagine all the money that tourism brings to France!!!
Agreed this filthy pig of a king is exactly why absolute Monarchy is a horrible form of government
Louis XVI helped bankroll the American Revolution. That, 16's indecisiveness, Marie's perception as an over spender and the "Little Ice Age" is what did Him in.
I would pay money to see the bloopers of this 😆
The perfect person is jonny Depp thanks for taking him to bring us back to history..
Really enjoyed this. What I would do to live a week in several different era's. Great work! Ty from Asheville, NC!
France has such beauty everywhere.I enjoyed my driving holidays so much.There is so much to see.
I love the production! The aging makeup is done quite well!
A beautifully, enamoring presentation. French history eveloped within a majestically dressed backdrop of a man's life. Very well done. Cheers, Dick from Vancouver.
A wonderful series of superbly documented Royal history 👏👏👏
One of my all time favorite places in the world!! Thank you Louis!!!!
This is one of my most favorite documentaries ever. Great job on the acting, set design, costumes, etc.
Amazingly documented and beautifully expressed.... ❤️
it's so bizarre to me that people actually went to the bathroom in the hallways and on the landings of the staircases. In all their finery and pompous behavior they were really just like animals dressed in silk.
This reality is the essence of savagery.
Eventually the palace was decked out with restrooms and infrastructure. But it was a hysterically low priority. Coming after chandeliers and statues and halls of mirrors.
Yea I didn’t understand that either they built all those magnificent Fountains but did not have indoor plumbing.
very well done documentary I enjoyed and learne so much. many thanks !
He's my inspiration from now on
Amazing production … just outstanding… way better than anything one would see on American cable shows
I love this channel so much. So much history to learn!!
The Versailles palace is undoubtedly stunning and one of a kind- but honestly it's not wrong to say he should have thought of paying off the war debt and improving the people's lot 🙄
I like to believe that all those people who lived terrible lives at the time,... came back to live life again and again in times when they can travel to Versailles and see the palace. Especially those who built the palace, and the servants. Fantasy, but,... poetic justice.
Excellent presentation kept me intrigued.
His 2nd wife may very welll have helped save his soul. Near the end maybe he finally realized that earthly treasures don't last, and they can't prolong your life, but are a big waste of money and energy, which could've been spent to help his pitiful subjects. But it was all about him.
The death of his eldest and favorute grandson the duke of Burgundy (also the daupjhin) and his wife Marie-Adelaide in 1712 and their two elder sons was a bigger shock. He was left with a little three year old great-grandson who succeeded at age five as Louis XV. He had other grandsons but the second was king of Spain.
Excellent documentary 👏👏🍿
I read or heard somewhere that Louis XlV only bathed 3 times in his life, so despite all his ‘affairs’ he must have been a bit ‘on the nose’. Also, although the palace was magnificent there weren’t enough loos, so there used to be a few ‘surprises’ deposited behind pillars and in little alcoves etc. So seemingly the palace used to pong to high hell as well.
😆🤣😂🤣, a quiet and discreet clowning!! 😆😂🤣. A bit on the nose. Pong to high hell...😆😂🤣👏👏💥💫😂🤣
😆😆😆😆💀💀💀💀
Very well done! Thank you.
The building looks way crazier from inside as compared to its outside.
Wow..who knew..!.fascinating life HE had..great video..
Very interesting ! Very well presented !
Crazy that people still go visit this place. It is a wonder. Hope to one day visit !
I can't imagine how stifling it would be for the nobels and royalty
And to make it worse, the humidity and the horrible smell of waste everywhere
it'll be like twitter today, where you can instantly talk to people of your statue, remember, these high nobles doesn't view peasants as the same, so i'm sure they would have preferred the company of fellow high nobles.
EXCELLENT material! ...very well done! - big thanks.
Its an amazing magical place can’t wait to go back again and what an amazing documentary as well 👍
I learnt quite a lot from this!
Well done..Thank you.
Very well presented
Tres bien... so very well made. Merci.
Very well made and interesting, thanks
He sure lived like a king 👑
When I first saw the thumbnail, I thought he was Captain Hook 😂😂😂
Very good programme Thank you
very impressive memories ...even only from the outside... overcrouded, when we visited......
This was a beautiful documentary
"Queen had to MAKE DUE with eleven (rooms)" that's more then 90% of humans have in their houses
Ikr 😆 🤣 😂
Congrats to the actors and film crew! Great job!
Paris, didn't have running water, yet Versailles has fountains
Wooow. Great point. 👍
Versailles also didn't have tolets
Amazing documentary 👏 ❤️ The historians and the actors.
He owned the moment😎
A good documentary
luxuries make you weak. if I were king, I would ask for the best trainer physically and mentally to ensure a strong leader. a comfortable life makes you soft and weak! choose hardship and adversity so it keeps you sharp and strong