French and noble in 2018: What remains of France's aristocracy?

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This week we're at the Château de Courson, a stunning 17th-century property. It's the perfect backdrop for this week's show because we're talking about the French nobility. It's a social class which no longer has any legal status. However, you would be wrong to assume that "la noblesse" no longer exists! According to some estimates, there may actually be more people who can claim to be part of the French aristocracy today than before the French Revolution. We take a closer look.
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[@jp4431]

Chateaux de Croissant. That's the most French castle ever

[@vrmt6204]

JP non c’est le château de Courson madame

[@kiky.mp4]

@@vrmt6204 lol

[@eaterofcrabs4683]

Croissants are Austrian.

[@heatherwhittaker6169]

It's courson

[@heatherwhittaker6169]

@@eaterofcrabs4683 it's courson

[@Dfathurr]

French nobility in 21st century : *exists Severed Robespierre's head : *internal screaming

[@franciscocevallos5084]

Dfathurr but are they still as influential,powerful,rich as before?

[@Luke_05]

Francisco Cevallos Not influential and powerful as they said at the start that they have no extra rights but they are most likely rich. Unless their ancestors spent a lot of the money so some of the families might be in poverty like some of the upper class in the U.K.

[@DOPEdwarf]

Robespierre killed peasant vendee rebels, unemployed craftsmen from lyon and Marseille, political rivalw, and San culotte who challenged the centralized power of the committee of public safety literally x10 more than he did of aristocracy

[@prody666]

@@franciscocevallos5084 A lot are still rich and powerful through the net of relations.

[@aclock2]

@@Luke_05 Being rich gives you extra rights anyway.

[@Timrath]

That French guy speaks better English than most Londoners I've met.

[@nickhuysen4643]

Timrath Thats because most Londoners these days are muslim

[@theovee4321]

Id say he is brit

[@impalabeeper]

American Pride First of all, posting for Putin much? Second, Islam is not predicated to any one language. There are many Muslims with different languages.

[@Dave-rm1mb]

American Pride He's correct although it has little to do with Muslims. In the 2011 census Office for National Statistics, the proportion of Muslims in London had risen to 12.4% of the population (21% of England's Muslims). Due to the influx of Europeans over the past decade or so, that number is probably a little lower today. Don't believe everything FOX and the alt-right media on YT say. The reason why the traditional London accents are dying out is due to multiculturalism as a whole. There used to be a distinction between West, North, East and south London accents. You could tell roughly what part of London someone was from by their accent. Well, if you were from London anyway. They would sound the same to outsiders. I'm from London and it started to change with my generation who grew up in the 80's and 90's. Even the middle class whites and south Asians/Muslims today often speak in this weird hybrid dialect of cockney and Jamaican. This is what Timrath is getting at. If you learn English as a foreigner, you're going to learn the Queens English. You're not going to learn any of the slang and so you;re naturally going to speak a more traditional type of English.

[@MikJFr]

If you'll excuse a bit of chest-beating, I'm a Londoner (originally) who prides himself on his French even though it's my *third* language, not my second.

[@hugof.8550]

This family is from "noblesse d'Empire", meaning from the Napoleonic era, ask older families and they will consider these commoners!

[@davidjacobs8558]

how dare these low borns call themselves nobles !!!!

[@jasonmuniz-contreras6630]

Noblesse d'epee

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

@@jasonmuniz-contreras6630 " L'expression de « noblesse de robe » s'oppose à celle de « noblesse d'épée », c'est-à-dire aux nobles occupant les traditionnelles fonctions militaires de leur groupe social." From the placement of your message I'd imagined that noblesse d'épée mean the newcomers who came up with Napoléon. Wrong! They're the older -- the `guard' in old guard.

[@jasonmuniz-contreras6630]

@@TheDavidlloydjones sorry, by noblesse d'épée I was referring to the older families.

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

@@jasonmuniz-contreras6630 No problem: exactly what I found out. (My mistake to have leapt to the opposite assumption.)

[@JosephineMiller]

Born in Belgium, raised in Italy and now resident in France, he holds a degree in Japanese. He previously worked for CNN International.

[@mikeoxmaul45]

M R W O R L D W I D E

[@MikeHawksBig69]

So all that to work for a fake news network?

[@PragmaticDany]

Lmao fake news, incredible how 2 words can instantly make an idiot stand out like a sore thumb.

[@michaeld4326]

@@PragmaticDany fake news is definitely more of a buzzword these days but you're clearly projecting. Relax man, getting worked up over a couple of words someone wrote on youtube makes an idiot stand out like a sore thumb.

[@Blue_Azure101]

@@michaeld4326 and yet here you are, doing the same thing🤗

[@countrymonkOSB]

It's amazing to find a Frenchman who speaks English so correctly. Bravo!

[@maryamkim1281]

Benedict Joseph Miller if he was taught the language and practiced over a number of years, it's not that amazing, is it?

[@bennyfromthe72]

A lot of french from the younger generation who've been studying/travelling/working abroad speak english correctly. Accent is something else.

[@SomeDudeQC]

I'm more surprised by seeing an Englishman speak French so correctly.

[@SomeDudeQC]

jacegil Can we say the reverse isn't true? Listen I've had many situations where I'm super confused to what the french are saying, but English people are just as guilty. Took me years to realise English cooks were saying "beurre blanc" when saying burr blank.

[@Helljumper7200]

It's amazing to find a Brit who can speak another language. No literally, pick up a book or two.

[@shawnhampton8503]

I was able to get to know quite a few descendants of the French nobility while I lived in France. Most do not have their ancestral homes, if they even exist at all any more. And certainly, most have no real fortunes. But it was fascinating to know that they have been around since the Revolution, often quietly in the background of French life, holding things together many times. They care deeply about France and its people and culture. They are often very devout Catholics, which is rare in France for the most part. I was very impressed by them. Hardly the caricatures one often sees: frivolous, extravagant, careless, haughty, etc. Two of the men I knew used to joke with each other that if the monarchy were restored they could no longer be friends as their respective families owed allegiance to different claimants of the throne.

[@freespirit5662]

Well they should not worry. We will certainely not bring back a King in France. Too expensive.

[@decimusausoniusmagnus5719]

Truly the best people in France.

[@alsneed7941]

@@decimusausoniusmagnus5719 agreed

[@sagapoetic8990]

Revolutions are just a pretext to grab someone else's wealth and benefit. I was wondering what family had owned that estate before Napolean's cousin received it

[@HgHg-yp6ft]

@@freespirit5662 Check sometimes the enormous and getting bigger and bigger number of the state bureaucracy in any country in the west and tell me again what is expensive or not as way to rule a country, It is not even up to the type of the state founding law, it is simply integral part of the human nature,

[@felinequeen9243]

OMG!!! They killed 84% of the noble families and at the end they still ended up granting aristocracy. LOL

[@katalinjuhasz641]

Szabadkömüves páholyok csinálták a 10 millios vérfüröt 1789 ben, a többi van az illuminátusok mai müve a muszlimok !!!! Franciaország Német o. Svéd o .már elesett !!! Macron rotshild báb.

[@UmuroElema]

Not by birth.

[@thomasgregory6975]

Ironic, isn't it???

[@suzyqualcast6269]

Restart, restart, lets try do it all again, but better...

[@Souledex]

They didn’t die, they mostly left. Plus way way way more peasants and politically opposed poor people died in the kangaroo courts

[@ThomasStephenForster]

I once wondered into a château on vacation without realizing it was private. The owner must have been notified by a jardinaire, he was very kind and invited us into his home to show us around.

[@lemageelias7625]

Lol like in "le château de ma mère " de Pagnol!

[@0hn0haha]

Never forget - a lot of those noble families that were killed off during the revolution were slaughtered wholesale - including their children, babies, etc. Innocent kids.

[@gloriahanes6490]

Thankfully, a few escaped to places like Quebec, Canada as my ancestors did .... De Carpentier.

[@kidcreole9421]

Gloria Hanes I work with a surgeon called De Carpentier.

[@mandaboiarry4366]

And mine boiari

[@mandaboiarry4366]

We made it but

[@jmitterii2]

I don't feel bad about the nobility including the broods being destroyed. That entire system was evil, and the only way to end an evil system was to destroy everything about it. What is sad was the French Terror, they traded one set of tyrants for another set of tyrants, until the terror eventually consumed those who started like Robespierre, and it ended. A lesson in democracy, NEVER suspend the constitution, and as people NEVER fear your own people for treason, know such nonsense only leads to chaos.

[@justanotherhappyhumanist8832]

Imagine growing up in a house like that!

[@laszlotimar0417]

Imagine growing without 50 cents in your pocket yo buy a burger at Mc Donalds.

[@r------]

@@laszlotimar0417 cry baby

[@PreterNL]

It’s probably cold

[@AlexS-oj8qf]

I grew up in house like that. It's not stable and moldy, most of the rooms are cold and only like 10 room are updated to modern livable standard. Hide and seek was fun tho.

[@sckirschstein]

Simply: When you finish to clean at one end, you must start to do it immediately at the other side, and so fort. Probably you will need to combine cleaning with a steady crusade against termites and the strong smellng fungus due to moisture. If you are allerghic, you will suffer a lot there. By the way, passing a winter there is terrible: the cold and humid air penetrates your lungs and bones since heating the big internal volumes is expensive and uneasy.

[@heronmyer3780]

now the nobilities are the CEOs and the politicians.

[@marcolucca6241]

Heron Myer ahahahah No, they are just vulgar clowns

[@ogasontop]

thats no nobility, nobility must last from children to children, CEOs that the end.

[@Huaimek861]

Some maybe ! Sadly I believe that is not the case today , more's the pity , we are governed by the proletariat , even the conservative or right wing . In the western world today I don't see any statesmen that once were represented by Aristocrats . Lord Home was a great Foreign Secretary , a master of diplomacy .

[@Huaimek861]

Alon More , Aristocracy is not about the ownership of wealth , even if the ownership of a fine mansion and large tract of land may give that impression . As you rightly point out CEOs and Politicians are not the nobility of today . Large landed estates were like an extended community , a follow on from Feudal times ; there would be many farms and farm labourers cottages , the aristocrat owner was responsible for the management of the whole and the well being of all who lived there . Aristocrats are born from generations of forebears , each , one hopes , having acquired a superior and comprehensive education ; that at best contribute to the higher level of culture we in Europe enjoy today .

[@Itsaboutthewaterlife]

David B: tell it like it is bro.

[@jamielee1007]

wait so out of 70,000 families only 2,800 survived the french revolution? holy...

[@joshuataylor6087]

If they weren't guillotined they fled to other parts of Europe. Many went to England and lived with their wealthy aristocratic British relatives.

[@novoeduardoac1248]

Jamie Lee 17,000 NOT 70,000

[@williamcrawford7621]

Yup. The French Revolution and the "Reign of Terror" that followed is too little taught or discussed by us moderns. It really shines a bad light on the "Enlightenment" and Republicanism.

[@emaadkhan3031]

King Louis I remember learning about the reign of terror in high school. I guess that's the price of revolution. Now, in the middle East, people get surprised when radicals hijack movements. But that's just how it works in the start.

[@lucaux6390]

The Revolution was great. It changed the Europe. in the right direction.

[@HisMajestyWalrus]

Must admit, I envy people with such influential and well documented family history.

[@pizzalover3280]

What remains of France’s aristocracy? My answer: Heads.

[@nopseudo5828]

U re so funny dude....

[@bittu2507]

Lol

[@yves-mariesellin6026]

😁

[@a.n.l.aantineoliberalismas4504]

Noic

[@bolacapoeira]

savage ahahah

[@misteraxl1]

During Napoleon's era, two nobles were talking at the ball - one member of a surviving pre-revolution nobility, and the other a newly granted noble under Napoleon. The old noble said to the new one ''You are a duke but it means nothing. For you have no ancestors!''. ''That is right'', said the new noble. ''WE are the ancestors''. Well, he was right.

[@deyakson]

*All I heard that entire interview was, "This man played a great role in the development of croissant."* And I love me some warm buttered croissants.

[@czarkristoff]

😂

[@michealrawlings9281]

You know he is noble not only the mansion but the actual real time era painting of emperor Napoleon. Not to forget this guy is a cousin of napoleon bloodline.

[@semiramisbonaparte1627]

LOL AND I HAVE TEA TO SELL IN CHINA

[@frieswijk]

The French nobility considered Napoleon and those peered by him little more than peasants. Having a picture of Napoleon would be like having a picture of Donald Trump; very emberrassing.

[@alessiozhou1172]

@@frieswijk Comparing Napoleon with Trump is bs.

[@frieswijk]

@@alessiozhou1172 I wasn't. Even though they both have narcistic tendencies

[@CarlFGauss-qn2cq]

@@frieswijk I have picture of both Napoleon and Trump and still don't feel embarrassed by that.

[@kwd3109]

We in The United States have much to thank France for. As an American I am grateful for France's help during our War for Independence from Great Britain. From Lafayette to General Rochambeau and Admiral de Grasse, French military aide helped us defeat the British. In 1803, Napoleon doubled the size of our Nation by selling us the Louisiana Purchase . France also gave America the Statue of Liberty which stands in the harbor of my home town, New York City. In return, America has helped France through two World Wars. All things being equal, our two Nations have had a great mutually beneficial relationship.

[@johnp556]

Louis xvi was not wasting money sending it to the American colonies . Rather he was sowing seeds. Besides, much of it was HIS land anyways, from Quebec, down to Louisiana, the dog Napoleon had no right to sell it off.

[@laoup26]

Trump disagrees friend

[@saraswatkin9226]

The fly in the ointment or balm of freedom were the English.

[@Sandouras]

nobody cares. It is irrelevant to this video.

[@saraswatkin9226]

The British never forgave the French for helping America to get their independence and so they catapulted the French Revolution and at the same time went paddling three canoes of Liberté égalité fraternité!

[@WilliamFang173]

As an English speaker, I usually see Europe through British lenses. Glad I found this channel (and Deutsche Welle) to broaden my view.

[@holyfox94]

William Fang Please don’t forget that Deutsche Welle is a government channel. All these state TV channels have to been watched carefully and sceptic when it comes to the inner politics. Example. DW is pro migration. Russian RT is pro Putin, France 24 is anti veste jaunes,... But they’re a great source of information apart from politics.

[@MFYouTube683]

DW is extremely politically biased on some topics like immigration and never addresses others like the rampant crime of Arabic clans in Germany etc, shame really because they make great documentaries and the problems are prevalent and dire. It really is a matter of journalistic integrity and credibility.

[@slwilliams75]

The presenter is brilliant

[@maryamkim1281]

Simon Williams huh? In which way?

[@WeAreSMC96]

Maryam Kim a Brit that actually speaks french properly, for example.

[@richardbenitez7803]

Simon - I’ve noticed that “reports” from France 24 are very well done...I say this in contrast to BBC.

[@meg4356]

@@richardbenitez7803 oh damn calling out the BBC

[@rebeccaanderson5626]

And hot 🥵🔥

[@straycat1674]

I find it interesting how more and more countries want to get rid of the aristocracy, the feudal system. But what they don’t notice is that the feudal system is not going away, it’s just shifting. And shifting from large families or small families or just people to corporations. The new era feudalism and nobility and royalty is corporate. They will run everything, they will produce everything, they will distribute everything, and they will have ultimate say over everything. That’s their goal.

[@filipasales9291]

This you said everything. Old " noblesse" was always taught values and knows it dependes on the people.

[@catherinerintamaki8617]

Went to France last summer.....beautiful beautiful beautiful. .

[@cheryl4729]

Beautiful, beautiful home. So grateful it has been preserved so lovingly by this family.

[@tianabrown3074]

I find the French nobles interviewed here to have far more dignity and class than the nobles of Britain today, despite the fact that the British nobility still has some limited power.

[@LiamPorterFilms]

You speak as if Britain’s nobles were a bunch of hooligans.

[@suhani551]

English nobility is just show off nothing else

[@kaiceecrane3884]

@@LiamPorterFilms yes

[@keziahdelaney8174]

@@LiamPorterFilms 😂

[@kyomademon453]

Even the lowliest commoner in europe has far more dignity and class than the brits lol

[@thomaschristopherwhite9043]

You know you're poor when you look at a castle and think "I wonder what the annual tax and maintenance costs are for one of these things?".

[@penelopesplaytimeofficial]

Thomas Christopher White My first thought!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@thomaschristopherwhite9043]

@@penelopesplaytimeofficial LOOL!

[@penelopesplaytimeofficial]

Thomas Christopher White 😂😂😂

[@crys313]

LOL- Not poor, smart! Remember, there are many nobles who went in to debt due to frivolous spending and gambling.

[@babyyoda4831]

@@crys313 there is a fine line between financially smart and cheap...

[@christschool]

I imagine that painting of Napoleon was a factor in Beethoven's decision to rename his symphony and his subsequent hatred of Napoleon.

[@mmacasual8953]

@Strefanasha achatvalu Can you speak normally...

[@jamesmiller4184]

It is possible. Out of much of the world's royalty, only a few such as Napoleon will enjoy equivalency of fame with Beethoven, throughout the ages to come. This is difficult for them as every time music is played, IT lives again! Hard to equal, is that aspect.

[@lexis.6075]

I like the documentary, but wish it was longer to learn about the other noble's and their family history and to view their castles.

[@louleloup2607]

do you want my insight? I'm French nobility. (with not much unnecessary pride about it, and trying to have a non-biased way to see and say things)

[@johnnieephraim5212]

YES

[@louleloup2607]

Well except for a handful of families living a "castle life" such as the first couple, most french nobles have a "normal" bourgeois way of life, some really wealthy and with patrimony, others actually struggling to be able to keep looking classy. We're rather conservative as is expected, but where some are royalists, most are simply republicans, or even some center-left. What gathers nobility and upper bourgeoisie is something very French called "rallyes". It's basically classy parties that can only be attended by "well-born enough" young people. There are rallies in most cities of size. Some aristocrats are annoying brats overproud of their coat of arms and self-important, and some just carry the burden of their "de". Aristocracy is also a group that gives a lot of importance to education and culture. Other thing to notice: there is significant difference between high aristocracy, that has blood from everywhere in France and Europe and has lived in cities for centuries, and lower aristocracy strongly linked to their original region (ahem, brittanic nobility!)

[@louleloup2607]

Basically, compared to English nobility for example, we're more "average" people I think, but more easily recognizable because of our peculiar names. As for my personal feeling, I'm often annoyed of conservatism, and stupid pride, but I'm thankful for my privileged education and for the fun history I've learned through my family.

[@louleloup2607]

@Karol Yes both are quite correct. I did attend a catholic private school. Bear in mind though that this is a really common thing for all higher social classes in France and many less priviledged too - because these schools generally give much better conditions for success if you accept that you have to attend religious ed classes. And yeah, basically bourgeois and aristocrats are the bulk of nowadays Catholic French people. I personally left behind my faith, but I grew up in a practicing family.

[@lingmingching1]

Very interesting. Coming from the states, I find the stories and history to be intriguing. So much to learn - so many place to go. Thank you for posting.

[@Ingrid0410]

Superb! Merci merci! Just love seeing this kind of You Tube video! Please show lots more of these!

[@Niambag]

There is still a French Barony in Canada. The Barony of Longueuil.

[@mr.googoopants3581]

Niambag I belive they are part of the British nobility, the current Baron Longueuil is related to Queen Elizabeth II through the Bowes-Lyons family of the Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne.

[@Niambag]

Mr. Googoopants they were integrated into the British nobility, but the title was first granted by King Louis XIV

[@glendagonzalez8974]

They hasn't live in Canada for some generations now, I think since the 70s. when de actual Baron move to the Philippines,I think his wife was from there.

[@SomeDudeQC]

Lol staking claim to the south shore?

[@monsieurm6975]

I believe, we are related, here in Canada.

[@HeatherHHampton]

the Napoleonic code is not just Europe; it's still the basis of law in Louisiana, USA. :-)

[@silviopinzon3678]

Heather Hampton oui c’est vrai. La Louisiane, l’état plus français des États Unis

[@semiramisbonaparte1627]

MY PEOPLE! WE ARE CREOLE AND HISTORIC BONAPARTISTS!

[@uninterruptedrhythm4104]

Semiramis Bonaparte it makes it funny that Napoleon sold Louisiana to the US to help pay for the wars

[@EVALLOYD]

If someone is noble the name is written with "de" in small capitals. If DE is in capital letters as in DE GAULLE, then it's not noble. Now, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was descended from nobility, hence the d(e)'Estaing.

[@DD-ce2nm]

Not at all ... Sorry you're not right, Valéry Giscard's father asked the French governement to add d'Estaing to his name GISCARD. He was allowed to become Giscard d'Estaing in 1922. The name d'Estaing had disapeared because the last d'Estaing died in 1794 with no children. So no descendant could protest. The name was "free" and the Giscard family jumped at the chance to make believe they are nobles. It's a wide spread situation in France. We have a lot of false nobles : de and DE. There's no difference between the two spellings. Giscard's father tried before to get the name de La Tour Fondue but, unfortunately for him, a lady de La Tour Fondue lived at this time in the USA. and she appealed against the process. All those conceited people are ridiculous !

[@samsadax230]

Well, I guess it's only you who is writing DE in capital letters and nobody else.

[@virginagobetz4756]

As a student of the Ancient Regime,I founs this brief video to be most informative and yet still entertaining.Thank you for producing it.

[@raydrake9151]

The French Revolution was responsible for the great increase in restaurants in France and neighboring countries. All these noble families had had expert cooks and chefs who were out of a job suddenly. Some went to England to work for families there. Some went to other neighboring countries and many set up small restaurants in France. This era is when France became famous for its food.

[@faizalhossen2289]

From Australia. Many of the French Aristo/nobility moved to Mauritius (Ex Ilse de France) in the Indian Ocean during the French revolution and there is still a very powerful French Aristo Mauritian community in Mauritius. They still live in the same style as their ancestors used to lived in 18th Century (and before) 's France.

[@dextercube1822]

What a journalistic professionalism. And a true class from nobilities.

[@coeurdelion1193]

We descend from nobles of Normandie. Francois de Lessart, the t later became a d, Lessard. Most moved to Quebec in the 1600s. When the English took Quebec in 1759 we lost the title(de). The de means from or of and often refers to land and title, but not always. It can just mean you are from that place. My ancestor gave the land in St. Anne de Beaupre Quebec that became a Basillica.

[@stenbak88]

Great program thanks for uploading

[@monsieurm6975]

Family included, the French nobility , even after the French Revolution, still survived in France itself as well as existing to this day in other 16-17th century French colonies that have transformed into other nations around the world. Those are some very interesting numbers ; my own family is 1 of the 3 families that still retain its mobility status through Lettres Patent , across 6-8 of France’s monarchs, from the late 1400s to Louis XV. Knowing some information about your family I feel is pretty important as well, I’m passionate about history. My family traces through Denys de la Vallière, (with all the proper documentation to prove mobility as they clearly say) same first official mistress of again, Louis XIV. Last point, the individual who the presenter is speaking to is only quoting French, as in the county of France and it’s own numbers. What he says is not completely flushed out or fully correct - for example, in North America, in Nouvelle France (New France, now Canada), the percentage is I would challenge, much greater than 0.2% of the population considering much, much earlier than the 18th century French Revolution, le noblesse du Nouvelle France were the administrators and high military , as well as Intendants and Governors, all most definitely from the mobility. Another interesting fact, when the titles and rights were stripped from the nobility in France, that had absolutely no practical application in all the French colonies. This includes the second largest French population in the world, here in Canada.

[@gloriahanes5338]

Are you familiar with the Charpentier, my ancestors.

[@johnforsbergbarrett923]

@@gloriahanes5338 There is also a noble family in Sweden with the same name , Charpentier. Their ancestors came to Sweden from Nomandy in the early 17th century. A branch of this family lives in Finland, which belonged to Sweden in the 1600s.

[@gloriahanes5338]

@@johnforsbergbarrett923 ..More than likely my distant relatives some moved to Quebec Canada in the early part of the 1700's with the unrest in France many chose to move elsewhere. Marc Antoine Charpentier (French composer) and Jean Baptiste Charpentier (a French artist) are also my ancestors as well.

[@HUNNTARR]

Any of u Familiar with the Chabiel De Morière im trying to find my family history i know we hold the oldest french debt know as the Linotte rente i’m a us descendent so i’m trying to figure it all out thanks

[@Sunshine-zm1fx]

What a wonderful and interesting video. So respectful to all the parties involved.

[@leahgannon8838]

Stunningly beautiful! 😍 thank you for sharing, I love stories of Napoleon , and I love castles or mansions ❤️

[@electronicgrinsch]

Since 200 years? What a nice young family. One day they will be real nobles. 🙂

[@MrTheChamplol]

"Considering that nobility is of spirit and action I see no nobleman before me because you, Sir, is not a noble." Voltaire. Voltaire was then imprisoned in the Bastille.

[@gilberttessier1871]

To MrTheChamplol.....".....because you, Sir, ARE not a noble."

[@maryellenw]

Great view of the McDonald's brand coloured tulips (red and yellow) at approximately 7:40 in this video! Thank you for posting this gem of a quality video on KZbin, as I am from Canada and I am happy to see a major French news agency (and quality International/World news sources) that are focused on serving individual countries, because it is great to get a closer look at some of the news that locals in these countries are exposed to. KZbin's worldwide potential seems tremendous and exciting!

[@miladydewinter8551]

What a beautiful house. It's crying out to be the backdrop to the dramatization of so many famous French novels/historical events.

[@rolandsingh]

What a magnificent building, the Chateaux de Croissant, not to mention the absolutely riveting historical significance of this wonderful Estate. Most Impressive!!

[@jeremiahlyleseditor437]

This was informative. Thank you

[@PJTubes2]

My grandfather was named Napoleon after the great Emperor. Being Haitian I have mixed feelings regarding France but am very proud of the cultural influence and language. We have traced our ancestry to a White Frenchman, a baron who owned slaves on the island and sired children on his metro "mistress". Its insane.

[@clairee4939]

To my ears, French sounds so much nicer spoken by people of their former colonies than by French people tbh. Especially Africans speaking French - sounds so so beautiful to me! :-)

[@MTMF.london]

Perhaps he was also practicing droit de seigneur on many of his slaves.

[@Aaron-ir4he]

Very interesting story.

[@semiramisbonaparte1627]

YES. CREOLE HERE, SIMILAR STORY!

[@billaros1338]

@@BitotaNkongolo-ws9wd Slave trade was a thing for thousands of years and it is still practised on a smaller scale today. Greeks used to enslave other Greeks thousands of years before the French and of course Africans used to enslave other Africans. Don't judge the past with your 21st century mind. In 200 years a lot of things that we are doing today could be illegal or considered cruel.

[@bearcolombia]

100,000 people, sounds about right. Then again, the two examples of castle owners bringing in a whopping €1M in tourism would be peanuts to plebian bankers and business consultants of any major city.

[@Sophie.S..]

They don't actually make much money. The costs of maintaining these chateaus is astronomical. Their aim is to keep their family home for the next generation.

[@gf4353]

@LagiNaLangAko23 that's the funniest remark ever.!!!!

[@phyllisruthmick5391]

France!!! The Motherland!!! Well for we New Orleanians and Louisianians anyway!!! Beautiful country, beautiful estates, beautiful food, beautiful people!!! Paris, the city of light, beautiful beautiful beautiful!!!💞💞💞💞

[@charles1413]

Merci for that nice comment. A shame Americans tend to dislike us though :(

[@charles1413]

@James F hm you'll find that most French citizens are totally against titles. Ever heard of the French Revolution? Royals and nobles aren't exactly appreciated. titles do not exist in France. You must confuse us with brits

[@henrylivingstone2971]

The couple who owned the first chateau in the video have since passed away and that chateau is currently for sale.

[@mariansmith7694]

Decor and furnishings are SO MUCH MORE BEAUTIFUL than palaces in England. Magnificent!

[@N4RCissus]

Amazing, beautiful. Painful history. But that's history and that's life. Learn from it treasure it. Fight for it.

[@caze3190]

It's not painful. Aristocracy enslaved, tortured, opressed the population for century. They got what they deserved

[@eliegbert8121]

based

[@BrightSparksAsia]

Terrific film. Thank you for sparkling television.

[@dwyatt9290]

Thank you for this information. Is there a way to connect people that are still around that are of noble/royal and aristocratic descent?

[@kalafinwe5498]

They do confer privilege. Most of the aristocracy in France get into elitist school and tend to become national administrators or bureaucrates.

[@kwakuas.9204]

the beauty of the buildings bring tears to my eyes

[@felixheavier5478]

That British journalist speaks better French than most Parisiens I've met.

[@JohannVF]

They covered the Legitimists and the Orleanists, but not the Bonapartists?

[@jgr7487]

technically, the Bonapartists wpuldn't be Kings, but would be Emperors of France

[@user-vy7gi8jo1v]

@@jgr7487 Emperor of the French, not Emperor of France. They didnt creat France.. Only a Capetian descend can be king of "France".

[@JBGARINGAN]

No you are all wrong ! France ? I think you mean Gaul. The Emperors of Rome, descendants of the Julii and Caesar Augustus whom was the adoptive heir of his relative Consul Dictator for life Caesar who conquered the celts are the rightful rulers of Gaul ! Lmao jk

[@gloriahanes5338]

My ancestors of noble ancestry - Marc Antoine Charpentier and Jean Baptiste Charpentier, I am still researching hoping to find more ancestors in my family tree. My French grandmother spoke to me of our family and our history when I was very young. When I was five I was held back for one year because I only spoke French and Italian so I had to learn English to attend school in America. My mother was Italian and my father was French; I am 70% French and 30% Italian.

[@gloriahanes5338]

I also am related to George Charpentier who fought Jack Dempsey (boxing). You can find George Charpentier on KZbin he died in Paris, France.

[@richardque4952]

You mean the composer ?

[@qgqsrg1]

no offense, but if you yourself are not connected to "active" nobility by 2 or less generations it isn't "special" anymore. All Europeans are related to Charlemagne, not to mention European royalty and nobility in general. Still I guess it is nice to know a famous noble isn't that distant to you.

[@gavinfarkas283]

@@richardque4952 I hope to hear the answer. He is one of my favorite composers.

[@jamestown8398]

In the last question (the one about Monarchy Restoration), why didn't the professor talk about the Bonapartes?

[@kittylikesmilk]

This was so interesting!

[@wozza59]

That was really interesting - thank you.

[@---qo3yz]

*I was born in an Italian National Monument of my dynasty, growing up with any luxury (unique model cars too), but into Italian Black Nobility life is very different than all other aristocraties: in Italy, we fight (golpismo) against System!* It's not only Golpe Borghese matter. It's a posthuman evolutionary Order matter.

[@michaelrs8010]

Greetings from Orange County, California. That was pretty interesting 👍

[@MikeyGQOTA]

Thank you for sharing your video... The Tulips are nice!

[@smoothbeak]

Alright now where do you have the masked ball parties and where's the underground dungeon :P?

[@jamesmiller4184]

Ah, yes, Guy de Rothschild and his soirees. One just does wonder. The "Whims of Fortune," indeed.

[@richardbenitez7803]

As a casual reader of history by scholars and authors of historical novels, I have always thought the French aristocracy were a force for enlightenment and advancement in all of Europe. They were far more influential than the nobility in England, Germany and certainly than in Russia. I heard a very learned discussion that one could argue the French Revolution took hold precisely because the nobility via funding and interest in science and supporting academics advanced democratic ideas which in helped crumble the French pyramidal structures.

[@tinkmarshino]

interesting.. I would hate to have to keep these old houses running these days.. The aristocrats have become the poor rich these days... I wonder what there ancestors would think?

[@chantaln6843]

Excellent!!! I wish there was a documentary series that traces the remaining French monarch all the way to the Count of Paris. I would definitely watch that docu series.

[@dinomonzon1529]

@@aukusti3761 It says Traces, history lol

[@brainfornothing]

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing !

[@MrBrownnn696]

The France seem way more chill then the British

[@AAA-vk4wh]

Derrick Lopez the French have sticks up their arses, don’t be fooled. I do love the French and the British though and the banter that comes along with it. You should see an Englishman banter with a Frenchman, very funny! (Asian here that’s raised in Britain)

[@richardschiffman7657]

I'm an American and although I spent time in both countries and appreciate both of them, I have to say that the French are more pleasant at least to me.

[@SeanONilbud]

The english are despised around the world but fatmericans are neck and neck.

[@SeanONilbud]

Also apartheid. The French hate cunts like the english their masters the Dutch and the fatmericans because you have no manners.

[@clairee4939]

That surprises me tbh.

[@DalV]

I’m a de Belleme descendant, very proud of my French ancestry!

[@belamoure]

Your ancestors go way way back in the Duchy of Normandy. Friends of Guillaume of Normandie. If my readings are not betraying me.

[@gonzalezmagali6960]

Blaine Berkowitz you should marry Dal V

[@Andromediens]

magali_ww LOL

[@skyresh2806]

@@gonzalezmagali6960 x'D

[@jairobaguio8319]

Nah ah remember not all De is noble

[@goodi2shooz]

That was very educational, thank you.

[@cryptosnack6069]

Wow thank you for making this. More more more

[@esmeraldagreen1992]

The French aristocray is alive and well, their descendants are for the most part at the head of profitable business, giant corporations and in politics. Valerie Giscard D'Estaing ( probably misspelled his last name) a previous president of France was from the nobility.

[@algernonsidney8746]

No he was not from nobility he was a descendant of woman who came from an illegitimate branch of the D'Estaing family.

[@dinomonzon1529]

Yes, there are also others didn't succeed as well

[@bbenjoe]

I prefer a constittional and parliamentary monarchy over the republic any day.

[@criticuttam]

Does anyone know the name of the music at the beginning of the video?

[@drunken_sailor9131]

Does somebody know the sounds of the tune at the very end? Sounds like a modern baroque inspired tune

[@jithunder827]

beautiful Castles. i hope I'll visit one soon. 😁😍

[@fatprotestor8652]

Watching all those historical dramas, it seems the French aristocrats were way more fun than their English counterparts. They did things, had affairs they threw parties and acted like true barons of the universe.

[@ichangedmyself4362]

They also provide quite excellent mates for the many landed gentry from Germany, Holland, England, and Spain.

[@RuiCBGLima]

Starting this video I thought I was watching "This is Opera"! They have the same soundtrack generic piece.

[@csillagszr]

What about Russian nobility families around France, whos fled from bolseviks?

[@panzeelecreusois6357]

Unfortunately, many of them were tricked and came back in Soviet-Union after WW2... The few that stayed in France didn't possess any castle, even if some of them were wealthy. My great-grand uncle was one of them!

[@dylanpsinakis7930]

The Hotel Souvraine in Contrexeville was home of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna. Which is her villa during her last days

[@JG-mp5nb]

The gate shouts: “Stay the hell out”!

[@marlenfras5490]

Good reporting. Thank you.

[@hometownpolitics]

What are those helix fence-like segments at 0:06 called?

[@tyranta.devillier1791]

you know the castle owners had to be on their best behaviour; even the slightest sniff of arrogance would've cost them their head.

[@goldensaxon152]

My family surname is Fortier, unfortunately we're just poor French farmers and my family helped settle Quebec, unfortunately I'm not nobility whatever, Vive La Quebec!!!!

[@edmerc92]

*Le Québec

[@christophervilliers1962]

My ancestor did battle at hastings in 1066 the villiers surname came from Normandy in France with the normans conquests of England.

[@thefrenchgardener1865]

Would be great if France 24 would interview the present heir apparent, the Count of Paris. However, this was a terrific show. Thank you. . .

[@allies7184]

My American uncle A.J. De Lachapelle was in line to the French throne, however, he did not want it. So, when my dad was around 25 a French government official came to his town and A.J signed a proclamation stating he wanted to be removed from the line. He died 14 years later never once regretting what he had done.

[@clairee4939]

Interesting but confusing. France has been a republic for centuries, who asked him to sign away this stated claim?

[@HecateMoonGoddess]

Allie S Fool

[@johnp556]

Allie S if true, that's a telling story, leaders of the ray-poob-leek no doubt worry their days are numbered.

[@ahcokris]

Bonapartean 'nobility'....upstarts every single one of them. Except maybe for Duc de Raguse, Marmont and prime minister Talleyrand who were both nobles born before the revolution and helped restore the monarchy in 1814. I honestly thought it was going to be about the nobles from the kingdom? About the current king of France?

[@panzeelecreusois6357]

There is no such thing as "king of France". However, there are three people "pretending" to the throne, from three different houses : the "d'Orléans", the "Bourbon" and the "Bonaparte"

[@inamoore4536]

I remember reading about the Genay, who owned Courances. Hope all is well the Genay family

[@kingbaguette1843]

What is the name of the song playing at the end?

[@johnashtone7167]

A chap called Claudius has replied to my comment below, asserting that in the 17th Century, Britain didn't have an electorate, it did. It was only small, but the House of Commons was elected by the people who paid Tax. Charles I basically wanted to sidestep the Elected House of Commons. The English Civil War followed, and Charles had his head lopped off?

[@carlosa.linaresk.196]

In every revolution there are 2 types of people: 1. The men and women that became true Revolutionaries. 2. The men and women that became RICH selling the idea of the revolution to the true revolutionaries.

[@eisenjeisen6262]

very interesting, as they got two songs that i love "A man and A women " and "Live for life" and this one women with piercing eyes on all my downloads! Jerome from Florida

[@nightnyungwe5945]

Could someone please identify the theme song at the beginning of this documentary?