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[@ItsCharlieVest]

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[@fablb9006]

The chateau d’Ussé did not inspired Disney for the animation adaptation of sleeping beauty, but it inspired the author of the tale sleeping beauty, Charles Perrault, who lived in Loire Valley, and wrote the tale based on the chateaux that he knew 400 years before Disney did a movie about this tale !!…

[@christophedurante6212]

It's funny that you think Versailles looks a bit like Washington DC... Washington DC has been designed by Pierre Charles L' Enfant a French architect.

[@Kate-qq3ez]

In fact Washington DC looks a bit like Versailles… Versailles was built in 1631 !!!!!!

[@christophedurante6212]

@@Kate-qq3ez Bonjour Kate ... Yes of course Versailles is older than Washington DC.

[@cesruhf2605]

When i visit washington dc imma say "Ah yes glorious french architecture"

[@silvaian8292]

De FRANCE 🇲🇫 Merci pour cette visite de nos magnifiques châteaux. J'❤

[@Plume7874]

They could have added the Carcassonne Fortress, not a chateau by itself, but a fully fortified city with its dungeon. An incredible sight and visit.

[@evagaile]

Yeah there's a distinct lack of purely medieval castle in the original video, even though there are many in France as well. Guess they liked the Renaissance style better.

[@quoniam426]

Chenonceau is a BRIDGE castle !!! over the river Cher. Some Renaissance chateaux were just modified Medieval castles with enlarged windows and fancier roofs as those castles were becoming obsolete in terms of defenses because of the new gun powder artillery... Others startes as imitation of Medieval castles with same fancier features. What sets Blois apart is that it's been modified throughout the centuries from late Middle Ages to Louis XIV.... All those eras are recognizable in the four facades of the courtyard, it's a very nice visit. It features a Salamander seal above the main entrance or above every mantlepiece, the seal of King François the 1st. Sully sur Loire is a very nice visit as well, you can clearly see the modified Medieval castle and a few later additions here and there. Chambord's area (the domain surrounded by a wall, the property if you prefer) is about the size of Paris with the castle in the middle. The castle itself is impactical to live in, the circulating spaces are way too big to heat but the staircase is magnificent, inspired to the architects by the works of Da Vinci himself. 15 kms away from Chambord, don't miss Cheverny, much smaller 17th century château but that inspired Marlinspike in Tintin (just take off the two most extreme parts and you have it). There is also a permament exhibit on Tintin in the smaller building nearby. Not far as well, don't miss Da Vinci's final resting place, Clos Lucé manor at Amboise; it's very nice. Washington DC map was drawn after Versailles, just place the Capitol in lieu of the Château... Versailles is only surpassed in the world by the Hermitage palace in St Petersbourg because... Peter the Great's visit to Versailles in 1715 marked him a lot... and he wanted to have the same but BIGGER...

[@charlottehardy822]

There is no question that France has some truly remarkable and beautiful chateaus.

[@CROM-on1bz]

It seems to me that if we add up all the types of castles (Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and modern) we arrive at the rather crazy figure of 42,000 castles.

[@mr-806]

Châteaux not chateaus, but yes you're right, we in France, have some remarkable beautiful châteaux. In fact, in all Europe there are magnificient castles.

[@CROM-on1bz]

@@mr-806 The use of the word castle may be abusive, but detailing the fortified houses, the forts, the palaces, the pleasure residences, the barred spurs or the fortifications of the Iron or Bronze Ages is far too long.😊

[@Cricrispec]

The giant size of Versailles Castle which sounds surprising when you consider that the intitial project by Louis the 13th was just the building of a royal hunting lodge has quite a logical explaination : Louis the 14th changed his father's intitial plan and he built a castle which was able to host all the dukes, marquis, earls and barons of the Kingdom. In fact, after monarchy was shattered by the revolts of half the French Aristocracy against the King of France, who was none other than King Louis the 14th in his childhood, once he had come of age and won that war against the felon aristocrats (war known as "la Fronde"), Louis the 14th wanted to make sure that he could keep an eye on the lives of all the major aristocrats of the kingdom by having them stay permanently at his court at Versailles Castle, instead of them being able to plot against him from their remote castles all over France. And it worked : the king made the nobility believe that living near the King in Versaille was the best way to forward their interests through active daily royal courting, in order to gain new titles and new privileges, and all the dukes and earls left their home castles to live in Versaille castle, which had to be such a huge building to accomodate so many aristocrats and their servants... So Versailles castle was eventually designed as a little town indoors rather than the hunting lodge that it was initially intended to be, with all the most up to date luxury and entertainment that the elite could dream of as an other incentive to stay and enjoy...

[@tonio3920]

The most famous castle of France is missing : Le Louvre.

[@HanHonime]

At the top of external walls are "machicolation" (or "mâchicoulis" in French), initialiy designed for medieval castles, to drop or throw stuff on attackers below while staying protected. Probably mostly decorative here.

[@thoso1973]

In Danish our two words for castle originates in German; borg (burg) for a defensive military style castle. Slot (schloss) for what the French would call a chateaux; more a palace than a castle. Danish city names that end in -borg indicates that they were/are home to a medieval castle.

[@enzael]

For the hunting lodge : The king went hunting with a majority of the noble, meaning this was also political and some nobles could sleep in guests rooms. It was a usefull tool to keep them in check.

[@Inconnu-z8w]

2:37 you can access the castle from the river throught doors in the kitchen (wich is along with storage, in the pile) , if my memory is correct...

[@cleochabrou9869]

those things on top of tower call " corbeaux " ( or crows in english )

[@Sytrylt]

I'm french, and I have visited several of this "chateaux" along the years, especially the ones known as the "chateaux de la loire", because I have family there and visit quite often. But I think my favorites and the most beautiful ones for me would be Chambord and Chenonceau. They are beautiful in pictures and videos, but they are just marvellous in real life ! I actually think I have pictures on one of my device of one of those visits to Chambord with my family. Even with no skill in photography, it turns out amazing just because of the chateau and how beautiful itand it's surroundings are. So, I highly recommand visiting Chambord, Chenonceau and a lot of this chateaux if you visit France. Because they are breathtaking ! (And I'm saying this as someone who doesn't like the indoor decorations of those places. But the architecture in it'self is worth it ! )

[@DidierB2]

Pierrefond

[@ado6017]

Valençay.😊

[@adeleg4759]

You might be interested by vauban defencive urban design

[@Christo92CoachingPro]

You are a funny guy ! Come visit France, you'll get goosebumps !!!

[@MoSkent1]

Hi Charlie ! It's always a pleasure to see an American so interested and curious about European culture, and here about my country's. I've visited all these castles since a long time, and some several times, like the fabulous Château de Chantilly this year. (The most beautiful interiors for me being those of Chenonçeau and Chantilly, with Versailles of course...) But it's a pity that they only focused on the castles of the Loire ! France has 45.000 castles and there're so many others ones elsewhere, like that the impressive Château du Haut-Koenigsbourg in Alsace, just geographically opposite those of the Loire...

[@marie-christinelange131]

And the Castles of the Dordogne Valley are so beautiful !!!...

[@MoSkent1]

@@marie-christinelange131 OUI ! Splendid castles and splendid region in general ! (I'd forgotten the incredible Château de Pierrefonds north of Paris, perhaps the most massive of all...)

[@clio2rsminicup]

Bonjour. It's both amusing and appreciated, as it's taken as a mark of respect, to hear the US commentator of the report announce the ranking numbers in French! ^^

[@Exoneos]

Chambord will always be my favorite visited that one several time. I was born in Blois and I visited and worked in the chateau of this little city too for a time.

[@didiermeurgues4267]

As said at 1:03, this is a choice of castles from ONLY the Loire valley, Nantes included, and 3 of Paris region. The castles of the other 10... regions can be very different. Some are as famous, like the Popes palace in Avignon, Pierrefonds, Haut Koenigsbourg, Tarascon, those of Périgord (Beynac, Castelnaud, etc) and Pyrénées (Carcassonne, Pau, Montségur), Vaux-le-Vicomte (near Paris) or the many fortifications of Vauban, etc... In the video Sully-sur-Loire (or Plessis-Bourré showed in your video about French regions) is less famous. At 4:13 Ussé castle inspired INDEED Charles Perrault, the author of Sleeping beauty tale who had a property nearby... That's why the original castle of Walt Disney was white... with blue roof tiles before 2005 and obviously inspired as well by the Loire valley castles for the front side and the Très riches heures du duc de Berry manuscript. The central dormer window, its gable design and pilasters, are those of Villandry, Chambord, Azay-le-Rideau or Amboise (side facade) castles. The small SYMETRICAL CORBELLED round turets are typically French and found in Paris (14th c. former Porte Saint-Denis or still on the low wall of Vincennes keep), in several castles like Montpoupon, Chenonceau, Trécesson, Saint-Florent-sur-Cher, Angers (castelet), Saumur (porch), Bridoré, bigger at Azay, or many neo-gothic castles of Anjou and Poitou (www.pinterest.fr/pin/prestige-property-group--181481059978932366/) or even those of Butrón in Spain, Moszna in Poland (a bit like Disney too !) or Marienburg in Germany, the first 2 having French elements probably influenced by Viollet-le-Duc books, and with the Auld alliance they probably influenced Scottish corbelled turets too, since they are called "tourelles" there which is a French word (Glamis ?, but the square ones are really Scottish at Colliston, Claypotts, etc) ! Little corbelled turets were used as well in a slightly different way at the top of some belfries in Flanders, like Lierre and Malines in Belgium or Douai and above all Rue in France (nearly identical to Disney). The precise machicolations design between the turets of Disney castle are those of Le Rivau, Laussel, Montsoreau or Chaumont larger tower, etc, while those of the 2 highest towers are from Neuschwanstein in Germany, but could as well be from Vitré square tower in France... and these high towers' battlements are from... Saumur, the old Louvre (destroyed), then Pierrefonds in France as well as one of the lower towers with a typically French double level of round rooves like at Ussé, Langeais eastern facade, Plessis-Bourré, Rambures, Pierrefonds or Vitré. The chapel's spire is like the one of Saint-Hubert in Amboise or the neo-gothic ones of Chantilly and Sainte Chapelle in Paris, its ridge decor and finials were used in 15th c. France (Saumur above all, Mehun, Louvre castles in the Très riches heures du duc de Berry manuscript : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Saumur#/media/File:Les_Tr%C3%A8s_Riches_Heures_du_duc_de_Berry_septembre.jpg) and its losange pattern roof is burgundian ! In adition to the said highest towers, Neuschwanstein was the inspiration for the other side of Disney castle, notably the gable with pyramidal lombard bands, but its rooves are metallic... instead ! I'm really amased that the Loire castle influence is ignored... on Wikipedia or not aknowledged by Disney in the references. But I don't know what is the inspiration of the stone rampart and protruding towers machicolations, perhaps Falstaff castle in UK or Italian castles. So a bit more than half of Disney castle is in fact inspired by French castles, but this has been mostly erased... by decorations added on the towers and above all the new multicolor... paint ! At 1:50 this is the portrait of king Francis I (typical sharp nose), not Gilles Berthelot. Chantilly has one of the finest old masters collection in France, some say the second mostly because of its Raphaël paintings, but it's not the second in number. Versailles, some Paris museums after the Louvre's 10.000 paintings... and some provincial fine arts museums have more paintings.

[@ledocteurgonzo]

11:20 When the king went hunting, he went with part of his court (who always followed him) and that could be between 2000 and 5000 people... so it was necessary to house all these people.

[@didierjacob250]

Il aurait fallu montrer le " château de Vincennes " médiéval, du XII eme siècle, l' un des plus grands chateaux-forts de France, résidence royale, en parfait état, avec un donjon très massif, le plus haut d' Europe....

[@revertnicolas5977]

About Washington DC, its was French man, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, who designed the styled plan for the city. You can check the "L'enfant plan".

[@micade2518]

Hi, Charlie, to better understand why many towers are round, and learn about many other things on Europe's castles, you might enjoy watching this excellent video: "A Thousand Years of European Castles" - Best Documentary Where it's explained why they are "cool", "badass" ... as you'd say. The towers were round so that the cannon balls would ricochet against them, and cause less damage. As for the castles of the Loire Valley and others in France, you'll find Rick Steves to be an excellent guide, offering lively and knowledgeable comments, here: "Châteaux of France", "Fontainebleau, France: Royal Château" and "Versailles, France: Ultimate Royal Palace" - Rick Steves' Europe Enjoy!

[@didierjacob250]

Avant les canons, déjà les catapultes, car à l' arrivée des canons, les châteaux forts ont commencés à perdre leurs pouvoirs défensifs...

[@micade2518]

@@didierjacob250 Et puis les flèches aussi. Les Anglais - l'ennemi n°1 à l'époque -, avaient des archers hors-pair !

[@Antoine-d3h]

Versailles ❤❤❤

[@annieamsaadi143]

Nous avons en France des trésors inestimables ! En dehors des plus célèbres châteaux il y en a une multitude d'autres sur tout le territoire ! Quelle région n'a pas de château ?? Nous avons tous un château à côté de chez nous ❤

[@kevinchiquet7174]

Fun fact : the etymology of "castle" is French. Indeed, "castle" is from the Old French "castel" which basically means the same thing

[@ClemensKindermann]

And "castel" comes from Latin "castellum".

[@PjotrVK]

If a château is really a castle french call them a château fort. I’ts confusing otherwise every estate hall is an castle.

[@kevinchiquet7174]

@@ClemensKindermann Exactly

[@antoinebeaulieu2017]

"Châteaux" VS "Castles" : non-french people will often refer to Renaissance castles using the word "château" when they will simply say "medieval castle" for, well medieval castles ;) And about those oversized "hunting lodges" you have to bear in mind that they were considerably smaller at the time : In the case of Chambord as well as Versailles, only the central piece was built at the time it was used this way, and without the "city on the roof" : François the First never saw the rest of the construction of Chambord : it was achieved after his death and as for Versailles, numerous additions were made along the following centuries, by several monarchs ;)

[@plumebrise4801]

Well "Château" and "Castle" have a common origin (From "Castel" in Old French ,from the Latin "Castrum")

[@antoinebeaulieu2017]

@@plumebrise4801 Agreed and I knew that, but I was simply making an observation about the use of such or such word to qualify differnet types of castles in english language ;)

[@mariadamen7886]

To be able to build Chambord an entire village had to be moved out of the territory. Chambord is famous for its stairs in the centre of the building.

[@mb107x]

Chambord is also famous for being build enterely stilt (which was thought impossible because of it's massive size) and it is said that the number of chimney correspond to the number of days in a year : 365 !

[@kwazar221]

hi I'm French and from Touraine (the historiccal region of the town of Tours) and number 12 ,11,10,7,6 are is this department (Indre-et-Loire) then the Castle of Blois (9) , is the neighboor department of Indre et Loire and Sully-sur-Loire (8) and Chambord (2) are in the next department after Castle of Blois so, if you come to france get to Tours rent à car and you will able to see ALL this castle with less than an hour of driving

[@milamar7777]

lmao if you are ever going to visit Europe you will need 48 hrs in a day to visit everything you like to see. Your interest in Europe still amazes me. You still absorb every bit of info you can get your hands on. Loving it! I can see your brain working the second you hear something new, like "Oh interesting, have to look that up!"

da vinci is credited to have designed the massive double helix staircase in chambord where people can go up and down without crossing path with each other, pretty impressive piece

[@glambertini4709]

The round towers of certain castles indicate their medieval origin, when duchies and counties were constantly at war with each other. Round towers were more resistant to cannonballs than square ones. With the construction of the French country over the centuries these wars ceased and the castles lost their usefulness for war, they simply became ultra-luxurious residences for nobles and kings, hence the abandonment of the towers or battlements, useful in times of war.

[@ChokyoDK]

It's estimated that there are between 75.000 and 100.000 castles in Western Europe. Which means you could visit a castle every day for the rest of your life and not even see half of them.

[@DidierB2]

Chenonceaux is mainly known as the palace of DIANE de Poitiers, the most beautiful woman of the world (perhaps with Helen of Troy)

[@JeanChordeiles]

So they say. But each country has had its "most beautiful woman of the world", in every period. So...

[@DidierB2]

@@JeanChordeiles well, the most ever beutiful british woman was still like an horse....

[@JeanChordeiles]

@@DidierB2 : Ok. T'as 12 ans, en fait. 🙄

[@DidierB2]

@@JeanChordeiles ben jeustement, ce ne sont pas les anglaises qui risquent de bousculer les hormones....

[@Kollum]

Actually, the bulge at the top of the towers or even walls is actually a weapon called "machicolations". There are holes with traps all around, so that you could launch arrows or throw stones or boiling water at enemies getting close to break or escalate the walls. Beautiful, but they exist to be deadly

[@astree214]

or much more efficient, burning oil 😉

[@DidierB2]

@@astree214 no, that is a myth....oil was far to expensive to be used for that boiling water is useful but the worse for attakers is very HOT SAND !!!!!!!

[@nadinemenard6310]

@@astree214 oil was way to expensive

[@astree214]

@@nadinemenard6310 then, water was even morce scarce during a siege, and too important to be wasted on attackers 😀 I said oil, I should have said burning "poix", but I didn't know the english translation, "pitch" ?

[@faskagat5185]

That list only includes north east France Castles… Just take a look at Haut Konigsberg or Carcassonne castles if you want to see huge medieval fortress with an oldest history than the Loire Castles.

[@mfcq4987]

North west of France

[@pierrecampel8077]

I think they forgot the Louvre 😀

[@PytheasFidus]

Le Louvre is an another amazing palace.

[@sergedobard9891]

en France il y a 45000 châteaux

[@synkaan2167]

Strange list, in my opinion. I definitely wouldn't have included some of these in a top 12, and the list is missing some of the greatest castles, like Pierrefonds. Well maybe Pierrefonds is not what you would call a "chateau" in English though, it's more of a medieval castle.

[@vukkulvar9769]

Architects of France: How many castles do you want? Francois the 1st: Yes!

[@michelinep1892]

I notice that you are interested in château in France. One of them, which is sure to ring a bell, is the Château de Rastignac, located in Dordogne. Its history is fascinating, particularly regarding the date of its construction and Thomas Jefferson's visit to the region during a trip. Did he copy the architect's plans? Or did the owner of the castle at the time commit plagiarism? Do some research and draw your own conclusions.

[@sergedobard9891]

le château d'angers est à voir avec la tapisserie de l'apocalypse qui est unique au monde

[@olivierolivier6080]

Le Louvres castle is missing

[@domitiusafer]

The majority of royal castles are on the Loire because it should be known that from 1422, Paris is no longer officially the capital of France but the city of Tours which will remain until 1528 when King François 1st decides to return to Paris. It was for the dauphin, future king of France Charles VII from 1422, to escape the frequent riots of Parisians who had already seized the fortress of the Bastille on April 29, 1413 and forced him to flee Paris in 1418 while his father who was mad and his mother were held prisoners by the duke of Burgundy supported by the Parisians and allied with the King of England during the Hundred Years' War.Even having managed to reconquer Paris and drive the English out of the kingdom of France, Charles VII and his direct descendants will retain an aversion to Paris and thus build castles on the Loire to reside there.King Louis XIV, then a child, will also be forced to flee the Parisian riot in 1649 and will be traumatized by this memory from where his decision to build the Palace of Versailles where he settled permanently in 1682 , so that Paris once again lost its status as capital of France to Versailles. In October 1789, the revolutionary people of Paris march on Versailles to compel the King of France Louis XVI and his family to relocate to Paris in the Palais des Tuileries under the supervision of the Parisians who will end up storming this palace in 1792 for capture the royal family including the king and queen who will then be judged and guillotined.In 1871, a new Parisian riot the Commune forced the republican government this time to leave Paris to settle in the Palace of Versailles . The president of the republic Thiers reconquered Paris by the arms but Versailles remained capital of France until 1879 when the parliamentarians decided to return to Paris which became capital of France again until July 1940 where the government of Marshal Pétain after the German invasion of northern France decides to settle in Vichy, Paris is once again the capital of France, starting in August 1944 when it was liberated and continuing to this day. Général De Gaulle who also disliked the Parisians and their riots as well as the Elysée palace in Paris, having at one time considered installing the presidential palace in Vincennes, an old royal castle.

[@NormandieDiexAie]

🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

[@christianterraes8334]

There are more 45000 châteaux in France. France is brillante civilisation

[@puarterquonder]

No toilets in Versaille those days. Servants carried portable toilets....

[@LynMa80]

When they say "hunting lodge", it's because the King was taking the entire court with him and spend several months at one place for only 1 or 2 hunts. Of course, they also needed all the servants, and the servants' servants, the cooks, etc. It was so over the top that all those pointless expenditures were part of why the revolution took place.

[@mecha-sheep7674]

Tens of thousands workers died for building just one of Versailles aqueducs. In vain, because a war caused the funding to stop, and the aqueduc was never finished. Back then, there was no cure for malaria, and mosquitoes were killing many people in swampy areas.

[@jaychristiaans2177]

Hi the 7th episode of danse macabre already came out. When are new videos coming?

[@ItsCharlieVest]

very soon I was just talking to Amy about that, she started a new job recently and she has been on a different schedule so its been harder to both sit down together and we got sidetracked with life as well but very soon! we didn't forget lol

[@davidvassard5998]

It depends on what you find "amazing"... To me the Cathare Castels in south-west of France, also called "citadels of vertigo" are the most amazing, or in a completely different environnement Fort-La latte (near Cape Fréhel) ; someone else might think that Versailles is the most amazing or any other, famous or not... Tenth of thousands of castels sprayed in all regions ! Other topic : the Château des Ducs de Bretagne", allegedly not in Brittany... Of course, Nantes and his castle ARE in Brittany : The jacobine and parisian state has decided to take our economic capital city to weaken Brittany, as it's been the case for 5 centuries now ! They took a bunch of sleeping "départements" in the west of France, attached them to our economic locomotive, and called that insanity "Pays-de-la-Loire". But we are still demanding (and the vast majority of the population in "official" Brittany and in the Nantes' département (Loire-Atlantique) wants that too !) the return of our 5th département ! I read once an american historian whose conclusion was that Brittany had been the first piece of the french colonial empire, and definitely the most profitable one... No problem, though, with ordinary people from any region of France (even with Normans and Normandy that have been a pain in the ass for centuries, often allied with France to attack us😉).

[@francoisevassy6614]

Faux : Le château des Ducs de Bretagne est bien situé dans cette province. C’est l’actuelle répartition en « régions » qui a été faite sans considération des provinces historiques, c’est ainsi qu’on a aggloméré le département de la Nièvre à la région Bourgogne alors qu’il appartient à l’ancienne province appelée Nivernais, mais on a privé la région Bourgogne de l’Ain qui faisait autrefois partie de cette province… La stupidité du bureaucrate !

[@DidierB2]

missing PIERREFONDS in the top 3 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@oxojeanpaul5943]

pierrefonds pour moi c'est le plus beau avec chambord et josselin