Louis Philippe: The Last King of the French

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[@genekelly8467]

Louis Philippe lived in Boston (MA-USA) for a few years-he rented rooms above the Union Oyster House (oldest restaurant in Boston), and supported himself by teaching French.

[@ericspencer8093]

His first teaching job was in Germany, where he was fired and chased out of town for impregnating the head master's daughter. Ah, those French teachers!

[@BlazinSaddles]

1111q1111f1111

[@fuckheinschitt239]

@@ericspencer8093 lol same what happen to a current French president

[@zacharywalker524]

That's pretty cool I grew up in Massachusetts and did not know that

[@Astonoer420]

That's a great fun fact

[@eldorados_lost_searcher]

"Paris is revolting!" Well, it may have a bit of a smell, but I wouldn't go *that* far.

[@SacredWaves]

😆 very good! I got a chuckle, and very much needed it. Thank you.

[@willturner1865]

Oversimplified

[@insertusername130]

Oversimplified

[@pyromania1018]

Are you kidding? It was an overused outhouse.

[@demilembias2527]

it was pretty revolting before the Belle Epoque at least

[@mikeor-]

After Charles X was deposed, his grandson was King Louis XIX for only twenty minutes, having the shortest reign in history. It is fitting that France had both the longest reign in history (that of Louis XIV) and the shortest one as well.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:25 - Chapter 1 - The world on fire 5:00 - Chapter 2 - Exile & return 8:45 - Chapter 3 - Manning the barricades 12:30 - Mid roll ads 14:00 - Chapter 4 - Birth of a monarchy 17:10 - Chapter 5 - Coups & chaos 20:45 - Chapter 6 - The volcano erupts

[@jacobmortimore]

Nobody: Like literally nobody: French: Did someone say...REVOLUTION?

[@BulletBoyGaming]

Mort lol to me back then it was so boring that war time was the only time they had something to look forward to lol

[@Mo10tov]

No they said " WE SURRENDER! " 🇫🇷

[@Reynoldsrobert]

@@BulletBoyGaming it's funny because apparently people tended to be MUCH LESS BORED prior to television and instant everything.... I always thought that too... But it turns out boredom is a weakness that has become much stronger in modern times because we aren't accustomed to times of thoughtful quietness and we're not used to keeping ourselves from getting bored without technology.

[@karwan6385]

No one: A joke:oh, I am overused.

[@shooterrick1]

@@Mo10tov Eh no, that was all of Europe when the invincible French army conquered them.

[@sebi77777]

France hasn't changed much since 1789 :)) street fights, riots, protests, coups, corrupt governments and once in a while a good ol' revolution. Good food and always great atmosphere. That's why I love France. Vive La France

[@shaunmattice6413]

Argue with a Frenchmen, and you might literally lose your head...

[@valepomponio]

Good food that was exported from Italy by the queens Caterina and Maria de' Medici, then it was later Frenchized...

[@janvierprado8876]

@@valepomponio yes , before that we never used food , it is useless and overestimate 🙄🙄

[@camm8642]

italians what is this inferiority complex stop it got alot to be proud of@@valepomponio

[@shaunmattice6413]

Americans; we love to revolt! The French; hold my croissant.

[@eval_is_evil]

Lmao! Top comment

[@pyromania1018]

Russia: Hold my taters.

[@artycuen3572]

We only revolted once. Now we are slaves to retail.

[@tessthomas8606]

Lol Revolted once but went and interfered and caused many which are still taking place across the world up to this day :-)

[@ericgrossart5797]

And be revolting that you do so well

[@BenignImages]

You should do one on Thomas Alexandre Dumas. Really interesting character.

[@Armytankbowen]

Just did him now

[@BenignImages]

@@Armytankbowen I watched it. Really great one. :)

[@gostavoadolfos2023]

Louie Philipe youngest son Henry was more interesting than his father

[@alexandere1555]

What about Palpatine and his rise from senator to emperor?

[@archstanton6102]

I don't know ow much is known about his early days. And rumours are his story is not yet over

[@yesnes123]

Good ol uncle palpy

[@YiannissB.]

You mean from senator to the Senate

[@aymarafan7669]

Yeah we really need a bio video on him for sure!

[@frenchguitarguy1091]

Tbh I’m way more interested in the life and times of TR8-TR

[@patf1288]

These are the best ones the documentaries on lesser known, interesting figures. Please do more like this one.

[@SacredWaves]

Agreed

[@aymarafan7669]

Patrick Fontaine, It what his channel has become famous for, now!

[@patf1288]

Eh I wouldn't be so sure they just did a bio of Hitler which is pretty mainstream though they did focus on a lot more unorthodox information and not so much on the already common knowledge I was happy about that.

[@rocketi05]

I absolutely love this channel. I've learnt so much. Thanks Simon and team!!

[@jorgealdridge6665]

Really you don't think books would tell you more

[@Snoem]

@@jorgealdridge6665 who has time to read stinking books yo!

[@kedijamohammad9014]

Me to

[@tim_mothy]

I love how each of these biographics videos about important historical figures plays out like a story. Simon is reading us the fascinating tales of great men and women that shaped the course of history. Great to listen to on rainy autumn day or a chilly winter night relaxing by the fireside. Thank you Simon, for making these amazing videos

[@Wkumar07]

This was a excellent reminder that so much of history is often unintentional in cause and purpose and that only in hindsight can we see the patterns that lead to such occurrences and events happening in the first place. The life of the last King of France (or, to be more precise, the King of the French), was the bookmark of not only one era, but of two. I found this biographic actually more interesting than the one on Napoleon III. Thank you, Simon, for educating us.

[@stelladeangelis5618]

Can you do a video on Marquis de Lafayette or King Louis XVI?

[@gilbertdumotiermarquisdela3037]

Very good idea!

[@marquisdelafayette1929]

Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette I have to say Monsieur, you are my favorite historical figure and am quite obsessed!

[@mikegibus2840]

@@marquisdelafayette1929 this is basically obama giving a medal to obama

[@ericspencer8093]

@@gilbertdumotiermarquisdela3037 Dear Sir, I hope you realize that in life you were largely an impetuous, self-promoting egotist who ended in misery.

[@queenbee7266]

@@ericspencer8093 only if you could see the amount of dislikes

[@theKeshaWarrior]

I really want to see a biography of Maria Theresa, she isn't talked about that much despite all she did for Central Europe and even the very Austro-French alliance that in many ways put the guillotine into Louis XVI's neck. She is also like Victoria in her extended family and unlike most Monarchs, she loved her children and was an excellent mother.

[@tessthomas8606]

No don't watch rewritten History remade and romanticized by Hollywood which is utter claptrap.

[@queenbee7266]

love her children...eee?? no.

[@Leyfandir]

Great job as always! I often learn details about the history of my own country (French guy here) and obviously a lot about strangers historical figures. Please keep going talking about nearly unknown leaders and shadow guys, it's one of the main features of this channel and I love it! Btw you should look for the life of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Perigord, it's great! This guy was a married bishop, the foreign Secretary/prime minister of the directory, consulate, Napoleon 1st and Louis XVIII, the French negotiator for the Vienna congress and the man who brought France and United kingdom together. His life is truly a novel with treasons, plots, deceptions and a lot of wit!

[@SilentSaturn]

My god the amount of sass in this video is giving me life

[@aymarafan7669]

Selina D, Same 😂😂😂👍

[@mammuchan8923]

One of the best written Biographics and delivered perfectly by Simon. Love the wit in this one✌️✌️

[@michaelball93]

Louis Philippe very nearly WASN'T the last king, because after Napoleon III lost his throne in the Franco-Prussian war in 1871, there was a very heated political debate over bringing the monarchy back again. The problem was that Henri Comte de Chambord (grandson of Charles X) was too conservative. They asked Louis Philippe's grandson (Philippe Comte de Paris) to take over instead, but he wouldn't accept without Henri being king first. In the end they reached a settlement where they would wait for Henri to die THEN make Philippe king, but by the time he finally died no-one wanted a king any more and the whole idea was scrapped. Even as late as the 1870s and 1880s governments were being toppled over who should be the next king, even though it all came to nothing.

[@archstanton6102]

I believe there are still ancestors who claim the title, if not the actual throne.

[@clivegoodman16]

@@archstanton6102 . Don't you mean descendants?

[@archstanton6102]

@@clivegoodman16 good point well presented

[@quoniam426]

@@archstanton6102 The Compte de Paris and Louis XX are the two descendants but they live in the USA, deal in finance and don't really show interest, besides they wouldn't be competent. There is an heir to the Napoleon dynasty, althought indirect but the other royalists obviously disregard him as well. Monarchists and Bonapartists loathe eachother.

[@davidfreeman3083]

Well and throughout this period the Army was pretty much 'contested' by all sides. Just like the previous history (including introduced in this video about King Phillipe, as well as Napoleon 3, etc.), French Army from the 1789 revolution up to WW2, if not the founding of the 5th republic, was heavily involved in politics, in an almost unparalleled way (pretty much a 'predecessor' of the likes of Thai, Turkish, Pakistani, etc. Army), unlike the UK (who swear allegiance to the monarch only and pretty much kept their promise), the US (multiple acts restricting the soldiers interfering the civil matters and the president's right to use army), followed by many other countries, even Germany and Japan before WW2 (of course not the likes of SS, but they're not 'regular armed forces' anyways), and Latin America (have similar acts and articles in constitution as of the USA's trying to keep the soldiers out of politics and have them focus on defense, although infamously de facto broken during the cold war), not to mention New World Commonwealth Realms such as AU/CA, etc. This according to some theory, partially contributes to the poor performance of French Army during the infamous battle of france in 1940. For example, one of the generalissimo at the start of the war, Maurice Gamelin's biggest qualifications was his insistence of Army neutrality, something eventually welcomed by all sides, who were planting their supporters, who may or may not be militarily able, inside the defense ranks. From what I heard he wasn't necessarily one of the best expert at wars (which is sort of proved later). After being blitzed through the Ardeens, Gamelin's successor, Weygand, isn't too much better from what I see, especially the decision to abandon Paris defenseless (which didn't mean immediate surrender, contrary to popular beliefs, however the geography and historical settlements dictates that there were few natural or artificial barriers from Paris to the rest of 'untouched' south, leading to a quick final defeat), which reinforces the 'French surrender' (if not caused) stereotype as well as the fact that politicians had long been corrupting the ranks. From my perspective that decision was highly political, instead of military strategic. As a large city Paris serves as a pretty 'natural' 'fortress', with all of its grand (many concrete, although not reinforced like the Maginot line) architecture and complicated street network (housing guns and cannons, and standing tanks and armored vehicles), as the natives the French Army can utilize a lot and create HUGE headache for anyone who invades. (That's almost exactly what happened in Moscow and Stalingrad), not to mention the psychological effect of defending the capital and the large city, especially when the national day was one month away. The only major disadvantage is that, while there was no guarantee of success at that point, a tough resistance at the capital would almost certainly result in the bombardment and destruction of the city, which from my perspective, is a price we have to pay (like Brits and Russians, for example) when our Fatherland is invaded, however I think that the politician commandos didn't think quite the same...

[@victoriacruz2504]

Louis Philippe I's granddaughter (through his first daughter, Louise) was Charlotte, Empress of Mexico🇲🇽🤍

[@GrubStLodger]

Lafayette needs one of these, he's weaved throughout these stories. Also, do Christopher Smart - a poet locked in madhouses for eight years - but was he mad?

[@artificialavocado9652]

I can’t believe Simon Whistler, aka the most British man on KZbin, said “dickhead.”

[@Prettywhite4awhiteguy]

Loved the way this was edited, made for a entertaining video and as always very informative

[@parrotantics2046]

This film partially contributed to me winning a local version of "Jeopardy!" (I'm Polish), as I had the final clue about one of predecessors of Louis Philippe I.

[@SonjaPierce]

Simon, you do a fantastic job on making what could be deadly dull interesting, engaging, and funny. A great video, thank you to all of you who worked on this video!

[@ericspencer8093]

History is only deadly dull for the dullards.

[@Nyctophora]

This was amazingly written and slightly bonkers. I loved it.

[@vard000]

Awesome work! I'd love to see a video on Dumas in the future.

[@gorviv529]

Really enjoy this channel. Please keep up the good work!

[@jeanninematos994]

As always, well done!

[@ajitbhat3980]

I second that. Absolutely love this channel. Learnt a lot. Tx to Simon and the team of super writers and researchers. Ajit Bhat , India.

[@my_aiim_is_nastyxgaming7046]

That guys a duke someone cut off his head 😂😂😂 I’m dying I love your content so much keep up the great work

[@sirlionheart4614]

As someone who loves the history of the world. Thank you for these videos!

[@connorthompson8376]

Very interesting. As always, I'd like to request Alexander Von Humboldt.

[@stevenm6922]

Excellent Biography !

[@Nursepractitionerd]

I love the sass! While I’m watching this, my husband is intermittently giggle from across the room at the sass. So good.

[@aymarafan7669]

Yes, I became introduced to him when reading about him in Les Miserables!

[@brandonleague3641]

Simon, I absolutely love Biographics. I may have a problem. I'm watching at least five vdeos a day!

[@anthonymanderson7671]

Very interesting video simon

[@wolfnfox25]

I love the additional super witty humor and graphics! Makes it more interactive. My historic loving heart loves this. Just receently came across this channel and I'm so happy I did. Love your voice!

[@pamelamays4186]

Biographics. A history class you get to take without having to actually enroll in college ( or, as the Brits say, university).

[@planescaped]

Just a shame society has drifted into valuing the paper of a college degree more than the person behind it...

[@zoos_lol4106]

It's been awhile since we talked about Vincero watches!

[@esulfab99]

Always a great moderator in Simon.

[@laurena9563]

The amount of sass in this editing/script is another level. xD

[@TWE_2000]

When will you make a video about General Douglas MacArthur?

[@stephenmichalski2643]

Probably when they reach the list of the USA's greatest _ _ _hole's

[@FunkyMonkey-ip4xy]

@JoelTheBeardSurvivor You can make a strong argument he cost a lot of lives on his insistence on retaking the Philippines. As it turned out it maybe wasn't necessary. And he wanted to nuke Noth Korea which could have sparked WW3. Maybe not an asshole but also not a flawless character.

[@Biographics]

Script has been approved.

[@justincarnes1656]

@JoelTheBeardSurvivor The President had to order him back to the U.S. to keep him from using nukes without the President's permission. He was forced into retirement.

[@acetate909]

@@Biographics Approved? You have the checkmark and hold the power! Approved? Pffff!

[@kentanderson9432]

Just discovered your channel and am loving it. How about a video on Louis Philippe's predecessor? No no, not Charles X, but Louis XIX (AKA Louis Antpine) who technically reigned for 20 minutes after Charles abdicated during the July Revolution?

[@ryanvoll7088]

I’d love a biographic of Clovis I, thank you.

[@John_Fugazzi]

So many requests! Shows how well people respond to your delivery. I might as well add my 19th century requests, King Ludwig II of Bavaria and his cousin the Empress Elizabeth of Austria.

[@ThomasHarding1990]

Elisabeth with an s not a z btw 🙈

[@davidkiabel1765]

I'd love to see your analysis on Talleyrand-Perigord. Thank you.

[@TWE_2000]

Can you make a video about Allen Dulles, the first and longest serving director of the CIA from 1953-1961

[@TWE_2000]

@blackzed masters of dark arts always have the best biographies. 😈

[@eddingtonmillagillo4112]

Definitely a murderer and war criminal without needing his life story

[@Reynoldsrobert]

Yes, please! I love videos about corrupt people and corrupt entities (I think you should make it your goal to expose enough corruption that the People stop the CIA from existing! They're evil!)

[@willhuey4891]

that will never happen they are too important and government protected soo.

[@Reynoldsrobert]

@@willhuey4891 Oh, it may not be soon, but it'll happen, we'll stomp all over t them

[@connorhamilton5134]

Can you do a Biographics video for Queen Elizabeth 1.👍🏻🙏🏼

[@ingriddubbel8468]

Monarchs are denoted by Roman numerals not Arabic numerals.

[@damianBTSot7]

YES PLEASE! I've looked and looked and can't find one for one of the greatest Queens of all time! Elizabeth I The "virgin"(😉) Queen!

[@damianBTSot7]

If you really want to get into some whacky people try Roman Emperor Elagabalus & Bootleg King George Remus! Thos two are fascinating. Loving your channel by the way.

[@chiteushamutete]

I love these videos...🙂

[@MichaelaBennison]

Could you do a video about Mary Seacole? Love these videos.

[@amandajean7738]

Hey, can you please make Biographics video for John Edgar Hoover the first and longest serving director of the FBI?

[@amandajean7738]

@Hersey Berry Hahaha! :)

[@mojojim6458]

@Hersey Berry I remember reading a biography of J. Edgar and seeing that photo in it: Hoover and Clyde Tolson in drag. That photo is no longer available, since Tolson bought up all the copies of the book and used the photos to wallpaper his bedroom walls.

[@danielarmiss3273]

You said "chimes had changed" around 9:40ish...you thought I wouldn't catch it...but I did!!!!

[@halfcantan1208]

Love the way you pronounce Comte

[@mr51406]

I’m impressed! An excellent episode of French history. I agree La Fayette would be a good choice for an interesting bio. It was poet Lamartine who set the spark of the February 1848 revolution. Because he was too left-wing (shocking for a noble poet to be a leftist!), he was overthrown by the monarchists, who themselves were overthrown by Napoleon III. After 1848, kings or emperors could only be dictators like Louis-N Bonaparte, or powerless figureheads of democracies like Victoria.

[@princetonnobelofficial4286]

Anyone noticed the Visual Politik and Biographics framed in the wall?

[@littlemissgothyork]

Could i make a suggestion of a video on Alfred Pierrepoint. He's an English executioner who also executed those found guilty of war crimes in Nazi Germany in the Nuremberg trials. Thanks for your team's and yours videos on each channel you each have. This channel is my favourite out of each of them but i enjoy the others just as much on a night after work to learn something new. Keep up the good work from a fellow Brit.

[@redthezz]

I would really like to see a biography of Pedro II of Brazil. Very very hard to find anything on KZbin about one of the worlds most interesting emperors

[@HSMiyamoto]

Using Tchaikovsky's "1812" is a clever, ironic idea.

[@liamglassford]

I'd love for you guys to do an episode on Robert the Strong, if there's enough content to make a whole video. He's an ancestor to a lot of French monarchs and was a mad man for revolt. Could be a cool concept

[@DarkElfDiva]

Go to 13:54 if you want to skip the ad.

[@hyperhare0624]

I learned about this guy from the show Victoria. Is this, by any chance, what inspired this video? Whether or not, I would like to hear how accurate the betrayal of him in the show was.

[@thunderbird1921]

Did the show acknowledge what happened soon after, Napoleon III's rise to power? Other than guillotines chopping at the king and elites, the 1848 revolution had a similar ending to the 1789-92 revolution: A Bonaparte emperor seizing control in a badly flawed republic.

[@odysseyisland2235]

How about doing on on Louis VI. I found this video because that's the one I was looking for.

[@angelitabecerra]

I must say, the lexicon used in these videos makes my inner wordsmith deliriously happy

[@multiyapples]

Incredibly interesting.

[@joshuaevans6295]

If you're doing mid 19th century French or French-adjacent people (Louis Philippe, Napoleon III, Bismarck...), do Maxamillian von Hapsburg next!

[@vonMohl]

What an excellent history teacher would Mr Simon make at school.

[@UCSPanther20]

Klemens Von Metternich is another good figure to do a biography on. He was an Austrian Nobleman and politician who served as a diplomat, foreign minister and Chancellor of the Austrian Empire, and was a key figure in European politics for the first half of the 1800s. He was a very staunch traditional conservative, in favor of the old absolute monarchies, and dedicated his political career to trying to stamp out the ideals that helped to spark the French Revolution, even going all out with state repression to accomplish his goals on that front. 1848 would be a year of major upheaval in the European political landscape, and Metternich was one of its casualties. When revolution finally swept the Austrian Empire in 1848, he was forced to resign and go into exile.

[@franciscomm7675]

Your wish was granted

[@penguin87904]

Make one of Urho Kekkonen.

[@TheQueekyOne]

Simon. Could we get some more of those historically accurate quotes? "Well, uh, dyde, no". Seems ligit😂

[@Biographics]

Totally, and as Napoleon said "use those legit quotes in biographies Whistler, they're fully top notch son"

[@whodatninja439]

you should talk about napoleon next!

[@Biographics]

We did months ago. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bai7kqiMoJx3jtU

[@darthbane5738]

Do a biographic on yourself :?

[@mjgerleman]

Yes!

[@aymarafan7669]

larry carter, I actually suggested that when we he made a post, yeah that’d be neat!!

[@ingriddubbel8468]

No, he deserves privacy.

[@marlylecharles5445]

Lol

[@danielgraham3194]

Once He Is Dead

[@todddougherty9492]

Simon using American slang is hysterical. Cracks me up every single time!!!

[@Bra-a-ains]

This gives a little perspective for the yellow vests in Paris for those of us on the other side of the pond.

[@joshuapatrick682]

Why haven’t you done the Marquis de Lafayette?!?

[@alonjudkovsky5137]

Vincero watches, and so do I.

[@amandad6104]

I'm so confused, but yet so fascinated 😂👌🇫🇷

[@aprilvoelkner495]

Didn’t realize the July monarchy basically ended on my birthday

[@quoniam426]

Fun fact about Louis XVIII and Charles X. Louis had an illness that made him nearly impotent. He was mocked and responded "You are all complaining about having a legless King, what will it be when you'll have a headless King?" talking about future Charles X, his stupid and ambitious brother...

[@hackalley3224]

Sultan Abdulhamid II, he’s underrated please do a video about him

[@claireviennaguide8576]

[@af.a.fe.318]

Where we can find the sources of this story? Books, articles?

[@matthewgonzalez9537]

Really feel for Louie, I don't think he was that bad

[@daleholbert3111]

Could you make one on the chessboard killer

[@michaelbatts5655]

Don't y'all just live when Professor Whistler breaks it down?

[@handsomed8732]

Can you please do one on the Swamp Fox (Francis Marion)?

[@Kenxclout]

Where do fruits go on vacation? Pear-is.

[@samsterthehamster312]

Ken Fulton {Baby Elder} you should be ashamed of yourself for making that joke.

[@Scribe13013]

ah...monseur Dumas!

[@denizmetint.462]

khakhakhakhakhakha

[@malcolmconnors4502]

Bruh

[@Zoey505]

hmmmmm

[@Robert_St-Preux]

Wow, I knew François Guizot only as an author, I did not know the details of the role he played in the fall of the monarchy. 😨

[@radonrodan8332]

Simeon,can you do a video about henri count of chambord?

[@1987djm]

Cant imagine how much research you have to do for these and you just rattle it off like you know it all,you must be reading a script surely but you can not tell you are,your channel is defo one off the best on youtube,For fact based stuff anyway.love this and Top 10s....Keep up the good work and do some stuff on scotland,st.andrews John knox era??or william wallace?? thanks love from Scotland buddy!

[@jonnnyren6245]

"Philippe Égalité was guillotined." 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@PiperStart]

I like the look of the Vincenzo watch, but my number one choice is Seiko!!

[@michaelace6947]

I will use this on before bed to knock myself out cold

[@franciscomm7675]

Do a video about eamon de valera

[@eldorados_lost_searcher]

As long as Michael Collins gets an episode, too.

[@philipglover3295]

Or Daniel O’Connell

[@MegaBladeBreaker]

You should make a vid about Lafayette

[@timothybrown1961]

Lafayette next!

[@sonnyocad287]

I think I've read somewhere that someone was going to replace him as King, but in the end he changed his mind since the government wanted the flag to stay as the tricolour and he wanted it to go back to the old one.

[@rodrigogarcia-padilla6342]

I think that was Charles X's grandson, the miracle baby. The Third Republic (after Nap. III) offered him the crown but he refused because he wanted the old Bourbon flag instead of the tricolor. I'm sure there was a lot of symbolism and propaganda value at stake, but it feels like his pride kept him from the crown.

[@DamonNomad82]

My first encounter with the history of Louis Philippe was finding an old political cartoon from the late 1840's that depicted his face morphing into a pear. Apparently, the French word for "pear" can also mean "idiot".

[@theven.johnc.yanekd.d.3534]

Paire de france...PEER, ye PAIRZ!!