The Paris Hotel de Ville: Robespierre, Napoleon, and Revolution!

[@SoloNecr0zis]

In French speaking countries, an "hôtel de ville" is exactly what a city hall is for English speakers. Vidéo très bien faite, merci !

[@TheBestOfLisaRenee]

One has nothing to do with the other. The English are a cold-Godless people.

[@elenaperez8873]

How is "dangling jaw being ripped off" not more common knowledge, another well done video as always.

[@OzzieTheHead]

I audibly groaned at that

[@OzzieTheHead]

@@CashelOConnolly I bet you it doesn't

[@TheBestOfLisaRenee]

You have such low standards. Your soul concerns me immensely. I am: Lisa Renée de Ville, daughter of, Pierre de Ville. You concern me! This commentary has such fake inflection that it is impossible to believe a word spoken; if only I could understand what is spoken! Truly, what I must assume is that this is New World Order elicited and whatever is being stated, with this atrocious accent, is nothing more than mere rhetoric. Sincerely, Lisa Renée de Ville-Uribe of Louisana, USA, daughter of Pierre de Ville- 20 years serving the 82nd Airbourne.

[@kostikoskela375]

Tbh if the hotel could speak it probably would have ptsd.

[@sagesheahan6732]

vérité

[@ryanvincent6169]

It would just start screaming obscenities bcuz of all the shit it’s seen lol

[@akahiro1671]

@@ryanvincent6169 Scientists: *give a house a mouth to speak* house: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAh

[@youtube-handle-are-a-joke]

Sad part is when you're French, we walk by or drive by those magnificent buildings filled with history and we don't care a bit because we see them every days.

[@emas5306]

So true. I walked by HdV for years never really taking note of it's history save for a few facts. But a beautiful building it is. Always marveled that.

[@romelnegut2005]

I do believe that this hapens all around the world.

[@UanTao]

Too busy paying myriads of taxes to care, are we?

[@youtube-handle-are-a-joke]

@@UanTao You're damn right, at least we don't go bankrupt over medical bills, hospitals don't let us to die because we don't have money, we don't start our adult live with a student loans that we finish paying in our 40's and we have public transportation. I'm damn glad my parents paid those taxes and I'm damn glad I'm paying those taxes now. By the way these same taxes are used to restore and maintain these magnificent building we see every day...

[@UanTao]

@@youtube-handle-are-a-joke: Well, I'm not American which is what you seemed to target by way of your response. But the welfare state is not going to fare so well these days with the state of the French economy and the number of immigrants pouring into France. Too many unemployed people to pay for. That's why your government needs more taxes to pay for these welfare - hence the Yellow Vest. In any case I'm Thai and we don't pay so much taxes yet medicines are cheap, dental services are very cheap, and medical treatment as a whole is cheaper and easier to access than most parts of the world. Europeans and Americans actually fly over to receive medical treatment here. Sex services are cheap and very good quality too if i must be honest. Do come over for a visit - it's not one of the world's favourite tourist destination for nothing.

[@Skooby59]

“God chose me to be king so suck it peasants” 🤣🤣 god damn the writing’s dope hHaha

[@ficalino7294]

Ah, favorite French pastime, revolutions and rioting

[@Claytone-Records]

Serijski Samoubojica, Yellow vest por vous?

[@visi7754]

Prefer Wine plus Baguettes and Cheese!!!

[@Claytone-Records]

vi si, No escargot?

[@lagitanavderoscio]

😂

[@visi7754]

Clayton Kusaj. Snails and Garlic Butter Sauce!

[@maxmichaelhatling]

60 year old USA boomer here. Thank you for this one. It's all been Names and Dates to me over the decades I've tried to get a handle on all this Parisian history in bits and pieces. This video was a perfect explanation for all that was happening ( while I was comparing it to USA history) by using The Hotel as a solid enduring character for the novel Paris write over 100 or so years. After that well...it was easy...ww2...cold war...China getting huge...I've been here for all that. Thanks Simon and crew

[@justanotherjezebeI]

You guys should do a Geographics about the Acre of Massacre during the second Boer war, if for no other reason than both Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi were there.

[@misterholst]

One of your best ever. Love the French history vids!

[@rondajones7526]

I love this channel ❤️! I listen to it at work, I'm an overnight shift janitor so these stories are great to travel and be engaged during my repititive and gross job. Thank you!

[@TheBestOfLisaRenee]

Blah. Blah. Blah. Blah. Sincerely, Lisa Renée de Ville- Uribe ⚖️

[@TheBestOfLisaRenee]

That’s the problem. They are told as detached stories. I am a de Ville. This is my history, and it’s told b a cold-hearted narcissist.

[@justhereforkicks8208]

I’ve actually never heard of this place, when I heard it got burned down I was aww man. Knowing how that such a long standing building that’s seen so much bloodshed and horror found a new life as a beacon of hope and freedom at the end of ww2, makes me glad. I hope it continues to stand for many more centuries to come.

[@_g8dfathr_678]

Until the next revolution...🙄

[@TheBestOfLisaRenee]

@@_g8dfathr_678 - The next revolution will be against New World Order- best regards, Lisa Renée de Ville-Uribe 🦚

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:20 - Chapter 1 - When a hotel is not a hotel ? 4:05 - Chapter 2 - The fires of revolution 10:15 - Chapter 3 - Say you want a revolution 14:50 - Chapter 4 - The king & the emperor 18:50 - Chapter 5 - The commune reborn 21:15 - Chapter 6 - Burning down the hotel

[@wemblyfez]

A beautiful building, host to many wonderful art exhibitions now, among other things. Saw a retrospective of the cartoonist Sempé and the singer Edith Piaf. To me the Hotel de Ville is symbol to all things French, from blood thirsty history to artful culture. Great video, Simon.

[@TheBestOfLisaRenee]

Truly, we de Ville’s are all things French.

[@MrVvulf]

This video reminded me of a book I read just last year - "A Gentleman in Moscow", by Amor Towles, which took place (almost) entirely inside Hotel Metropol Moscow.

[@ManiSRao-bt3xw]

MrVvulf awesome book !

[@TheBestOfLisaRenee]

Well, I must say that this doesn’t surprise me, because the content was delivered in such a cold way. It reeks of Russia. Sincerely, Lisa Renée de Ville - Uribe Daughter of Pierre Lunsford de Ville, Louisiana, USA, and of Paris, France

[@marktourtellotte1336]

Extremely well done! Thank you...

[@cookie1157]

Paris has such an interesting history, it’s had SO many revolutions that it’s almost hilarious. They literally do the exact same thing over and over again.

[@stephanierando3477]

Damn a hundred years of Revolution after Revolution.

[@bowhunter8532]

And that is what makes the United States special. Same government for nearly 250 years now.

[@dillonsnyder1172]

And now, they're an entirely nuetered state.

[@EnchantedEther]

I love this channel! Lovely video as usual.

[@ladykoiwolfe]

I can't say that was awesome, because it was so damn tragic, but it was most definitely stirring. I very nearly cried at the constant failure to learn from their not even distant tragic history.

[@The_Daily_Tomato]

I can't remember who said this but it seems true enough. France is not exactly liberal but every once in a while it's revolutionary ;)

[@benjaminhamel5280]

it is very liberal

[@purplecat4977]

If anyone wants to know more about the events described in this video, Mike Duncan covers all of them in depth in the Revolutions podcast, which I highly recommend.

[@resileaf9501]

I would also recommend Oversimplified for what happened during the events that led to the Reign of Terror. It's less in-depth, but it's very well made and funny at the same time.

[@sabeeh89]

I was listening to his podcast.... Just finished the French Revolution, very in depth indeed.

[@honeybabou6119]

Thanks, I'm French and I love the 19th History but it's amazingly rich and complicated, I will listen to it. L'Education Sentimantale by Flaubert is a fantastic novel that takes place at the end of the July Monarchy, I recommend it!

[@TheBestOfLisaRenee]

As a de Ville, I would hope for a better, more conscious aware and passionately concerned story teller, better than this clown. I’d rather it told by a king.

[@mushroomsamba82]

This was a particularly well done episode, glad I subbed to the new channel!

[@ljphoenix4341]

This was a super interesting video! Sometimes people overlook the historical significance of buildings, and that's a crying shame. The history that is encapsulated by some buildings in parts of Europe is absolutely incredible.

[@mr51406]

Excellent video! Hotel originally meant a large urban public building. A noble would have a château in the country and a hôtel in the city. It’s only after many of these old huge houses were turned into places to stay that the word “hotel” came to mean a very large urban inn. So Hôtel de Ville here is in its archaic sense. Just as a “hôtel-dieu” means a hospital. Thanks for taking the modern views about what the Revolutions of 1830 and of 1848, and the Commune of 1871, signified. A very good historian wrote your script. I’m a little less caustic about Robespierre, seeing more of a reluctant dictator like Lenin, whose aims were good but whose methods were terrible. But everything is quite accurate.

[@TheBestOfLisaRenee]

The production was cold and matter off factly. I am immensely offended, since I am a de Ville.

[@christophermerlot3366]

Seeing as you mentioned the widening of the boulevards a video on Baron Hausmann might be interesting for your subscribers.

[@AlisonBruce]

Well written and very interesting.

[@Tairygreen]

You sir, have gained a subscriber. Well done channel, all around

[@adamjmurray6]

Please do Sansoucci! Love your videos 🙂

[@christophermerlot3366]

Amazing palace

[@AndrewAnastasiou]

Amazing episode of Geographics. What an awesome concept, using the hotel as the main character and backdrop for the story. Love it. Keep em coming please.

[@seanmcguire7974]

That guy with the botched suicide that blew his jaw off.. he must of been in so much pain the next n last 24hiurs of his life. I just cant even begin to try to imagine his suffering

[@lizdyson3627]

Excellent Episode.

[@mkhuntstreasure3192]

Very interesting, one of your best!

[@joshuahunt3032]

15:18 July monarchy: (happens) Hotel de Ville: Merde.

[@wandaholmes7125]

WOW, what a history!!! Thanks Simon!!

[@MrTremagnus]

I didn't know they ripped Robespierre's jaw off! When you said that, I shuddered. 😳

[@jorgeduran1886]

This video was amazing, I learned a lot of things I didn't even have a clue before regarding the french revolution, thank u so much, you're a great explainer, I'm kinda begining to like the British accent as well haha

[@robertgarcia7782]

My street where I grew up was Eron Way which intersected with Lafayette Way. My little neighborhood in El Paso, Texas, was Lafayette Place.

[@ChadWilson]

"...blood in the gutters and the whiff of gunpowder on the air..." Poetic.

[@chicagata]

Thank you for this amazing history!

[@BR0JASON]

I realize it's a different channel, but you should really do the Marquis de Lafayette on Biographics. He seems to have had his hands on every important happening in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Unless I'm accidentally combining two people into one.

[@whosaidthat5236]

Watched this and now I want cake 🍰

[@Russo-Delenda-Est]

Great video, one of your best! 👍

[@juliuskysar9337]

Thanks for this very interesting episode!

[@makinwaves8147]

“The executioner ripped off what was left of his dangling jaw” that’s quite the mental picture and the next day no less! God almost a whole day of my jaw hanging by a bit of flesh and or muscle, that horrendous...

[@makinwaves8147]

Dave Bronstein fascinating, thank you for the input! Learn something new every day.

[@jeremywyatt2897]

Simon, I thoroughly enjoy your daily cocktails of learning. I subscribe to all of your channels. Thanks for being a fun part of my day! With that said; is there more to the story of the rebuilding. I'm totally in awe of this magnificent and surprisingly massive "Hotel". I was always one of the clueless Americans who never knew it was a public building. Thanks for the brain food!

[@katelynpainter8378]

I would love to see Marie Antoinette’s daughter have a video done.

[@bscottb8]

"Like Saturn, the Revolution devours its children." -- Jacques Mallet du Pan

[@williejones6379]

This was a very good video, Vive la France

[@questionablehistorian9335]

You forgot the part where Robespierre put on a play in which he stood on a mountain in white and basically said he was chosen by God. The people thought this sounded a little too familiar, that's when things started going down hill for Robespierre pretty quickly.

[@thegamefanaticshow]

Really enjoyed this deep dive.

[@K._Oss]

What about music venues like the free trade hall or the Hammersmith Odeon or even the cavern club?

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you . Fascinating ,

[@jasoneganis]

When I first started living in France, I was in the center of town and asked my GF , “Who owns the franchise of the “Hotel du Ville”? They have all the best placements in towns!” I was stupid, in a way, but still a good question!! 😂

[@vaniasdream]

Did Simon just painted the picture of God being a pokemon master when talking about the Charter of 1814 on 10:50 ?? If it was intentional or not Simon, it was brilliant!!! (and not the app)

[@notmosesfs6411]

Oh man, I was here first, never has my life felt so complete.

[@dp6447]

Good lord Paris is metal af

[@kyliek699]

Best channel ever.

[@BardovBacchus]

This needs a part 2

[@Concussed1.]

When I was younger I spent a lot of time in Paris. Thank god I saw it when I did.

[@abeddani992]

All teach history, but you teach with taste❤❤

[@michaelhowell2326]

Come on you guys, I'm still hoping beyond hope to see the Potala Palace video soon.

[@honeybabou6119]

"Napoléon overthrows the Directory, attacks Russia, is also overthrown" Next!. Great job! I laughed at the translation, I never heard it before: "the Tennis Court Oath."

[@nomdeplume5446]

Could you guys do a video on the Lubyanka Building?

[@FairbrookWingates]

I always found French history rather tangled and confusing...you haven't changed my mind. On the other hand, with a few more watches of this video I might come to grasp the gist of this part of it. Thank you for that.

[@shindari]

The French Revolution! Otherwise known as: "How NOT to do a proper revolution against tyranny." It is honestly breathtaking what an epic disaster the French Revolution, and the nearly 100 years of savagery it brought about, was.

[@paranoidandroid9511]

This should have been a biographics of the hotel.

[@BaldingClamydia]

Biographics are for people, that's why he started geographics, for places.

[@quoniam426]

Nice video. Perhaps a video on Notre Dame is in order, now.

[@Zeldarw104]

Yes, very interesting!🤔

[@rackneh]

Simon you hire THE BEST writers, even if you do lock them up in your basement sometimes.

[@dantheman7001]

Simon, you should do a vid on Westminster Palace

[@BarrySuridge]

That was brilliant! 💯👌

[@nijimagikku]

Would LOVE to see a GeoGraphics video about Notre Dame!!

[@TheSoundsage]

A very entertaining and informative story, Simon (even if Robespierre hardly tried to shoot himself (in the jaw- really!)

[@marvm.8079]

what a rollercoaster of feelings here :D shit really got down in france in renissance times :D

[@troygaspard6732]

Thank you for pointing out The Communard history, which few people know about. I have read reports of the Seine running red with blood weeks after the people of Paris were mowed down by the French army.

[@pyromania1018]

I can practically hear "Round the Bend"* playing during this video. * The tune from that brutal "driver's ed" video in the Simpsons episode "Duffless".

[@sagesheahan6732]

Do that, collaborate with many producers from all of your channels, even other channels, and make a toptenz list of the ten days that changed history the most.

[@baileydavenport815]

You guys should do Nazaré, Portugal. I saw a video of the crazy waves there and was reading about how it has only recently become popular with extreme surfers.

[@Xteenrebel]

A few things: - Thermador was only partly a reaction to the terror. It was also that many genocidal Jacobins, like Fouche, who butchered Lyon during the war, worried that Robspierre was coming after them, next. Fouche's role in Thermador completely destroys any moral highground the Thermadorians had. - The role of the Austrian war needs to be emphasized. The war is not an excuse for the terror, but any explanation without it is just incorrect. The Girondin helped start a war because they thought it would rally everyone behind the new government. Then, when France started losing, and when the king refused to send troops to protect Paris, August 10th was planned and the terror took off. The terror would not have been legalized to the degree that it was if the French establishment - both the liberal Girondin and the Monarchists - hadn't supported war with Austria. Without explaining the role of the war, you make it sound like the Terror was just caused by political fanaticism. Fanaticism is only part of the story, and leaning on the fanaticism alone is just incorrect.

[@garrick3727]

I can't get over the Communards being in charge. Mandatory 80s brit-pop for all of Paris. "Don't leave me this way I can't survive, I can't stay alive Without your love, no baby." See, it has a whole new meaning now.

[@kidmohair8151]

a quibble if you will... the Communards of 1871, did not appoint a strong man because they feared that said person would, as had happened in the 1st committee of Public Safety, become a dictator. As much as I enjoy a rousing history (as you usually deliver) it is, in my mind, equally important, to be as accurate as possible...even if you have to rush... I encourage all who watch this to explore more deeply all his/herstory (soorry..had to)

[@romelnegut2005]

I truly believe that there are so many places around the world that, as Simon said, could tell a lot of stories if the walls could talk.

[@augustvalek]

You were right, this was more interesting

[@DivoGo]

Oh-tell de-Vee Simon!

[@juusorantanen9063]

To be correct, it was actually a handkerchief that the executioner tore off. The handkerchief had been tied to hold the jaw in its place by a doctor when Robespierre was arrested. But the part about him letting out a horrible cry of pain until the blade chopped his head off is true.

[@IIISWILIII]

ripped someone's jaw off shortly before guillotining them is the most metal thing I've heard about in awhile

[@kungfuasgaeilge]

18:41 I believe the phrase is "Fool me once, shame on... shame on you... ...you fool me, you can't get fooled again"

[@sandybottom6623]

Hotel de Ville is French for town council office building. HdV in Paris is the area where the historical Paris town council building is.

[@manosbouzoubouzou1386]

Can you please cover the Parthenon?

[@patrickboucher2907]

This was an awesome european history lesson! Thanks, Simon! Or do you prefer Si? Or neither?

[@literallyanangrymoose7717]

Oh, our dear French brothers and sisters. You guys know how to have a good revolt.

[@chrisclifton7276]

Great closet bruv. The hurricane of human history.

[@gundanium3126]

I woud like to see a episode on the smith Masamune.

[@EveTheGuardian]

10:19 I forgot what the name of the piece is that's playing

[@iLLeag7e]

Simon Whistler, it's the neon SW logo that keeps me clicking but it isnt in this video. W the ever loving F dude

[@mobailey6666]

Simon: “estates general” Me: *AP euro flashbacks*

[@TheMrCougarful]

This presents like the screenplay for a movie. You should pitch it.

[@TheBestOfLisaRenee]

I am: Lisa Renée de Ville - Uribe, from Louisana, USA. I am the daughter of Pierre Lunsford de Ville of Louisiana. My people on my father’s father side are from Paris! (Uribe- is my Married name - which is an ancient name of Basque). I cannot understand a word that you are saying about my people, and history. 😢. You talk, too, fast with your harsh British accent. Cannot you try to slow it down and give respect to this important subject. It’s delivered so haphazardly! I am discouraged. I know so little about my history. 🦚⛲️❤️⚖️☄️🥳 However, there is no doubt that I belong to the Kingdom of Heaven, and that I am a woman of the Most High GOD, which is what’s more important, especially, during these End Times. All the best to you. I pray you find passion for what is honorable and true. 🙏🏼⚖️. I realize that it is the French that have mastered passion, and I pray they rediscover their true essence, during these last hours. As a True-blooded French woman, I must say: Your behavior is so commercial- and your inflection is offensively artificial, that elicits mind-programming- like the news castors (news commentaries), which are commanded by this New World Totalitarian Government System. It is a programming that I have not watched since 2009, when The Lord GOD Almighty warned me that this was mind programming. Your behavior concerns me and I pray for your salvation for eternity. 🙏🏼☄️ You have bowed down to another god. It’s not too late for you. How you spend eternity is up to you. Choose wisely. Eternity has no expiration. Such pompous commentary! This is beyond discouraging. There are no words to describe such a disappointment. 😢. Jesus Christ can set you free from homosexuality.

[@thomasmarren2354]

I first learned of the French Revolution playing Assassin's Creed Unity. They used the game to help rebuild the Notre Dame after the fire destroyed the roof.

[@desert_jin6281]

23:20 - not "su-eet" but rather "chouette!"

[@BaldingClamydia]

Like choo-ette?