...and I can never find my socks. Not one! One would think somebody was selling them!! That's ridiculous your majesty. Only you and I have access to your socks.

but at what cost?

​@@jennyknepper expensive but cheaper than putting down rebellions.

Clever man.

king: jesus, just let me dress already courtiers: NON... we must follow the massive protocol king: holy... am i in charge or not? courtiers: lol

​@@therearenoshortcuts9868The king invented the protocol so the the nobles compete for his attention and have no time for a rebellion.

Plus all the bitchiness about precedence as princes, princesses, dukes and duchesses jealously guarded and tried to extend their rank and role during these mundane activities.

I was a little surprised they didn't include the royal ass wipers too

The king's Grande Couvert (his dinner) was a lot more tedious and elaborate compared to the Grand Levee.

Nope, it was the other way around. It was an opportunity for the other people to show off that they have a formal and daily relationship with the king.

Not really. The king was really under the control of the system in place. I've read that when Marie Antoinette married and saw all this rigmarole, she was flabbergasted by it and tried to change at least some of it, but really couldn't. You'd think the monarch could do that, but look at Japan's monarchy. They act like the emperor is a practically a god there, yet it's the Imperial Household Agency that makes a lot of the rules the monarch has to follow.

​@istn9478 it's a bit of both, honestly. It would show the nobles who was jn charge by having them do these ceremonial practices, but this usually only works if the king was a tyrant like personality ala Louis 14th, of which 15 and 16 never could match up with. Also, it did allow nobles to be pompous over they direct access to the king, but only if the king wanted them to speak or to hear them at all. As is, it was a decent stopgap on rich people having too much control amongst each other

As a former housekeeper, there are good reasons why someone cleans windows inside and someone else outside. Different type of job, specially in multistory buildings.

I've read that one-fourth the English workforce were domestic servants. It provided employment, often room and board, and a little pocket money.

I mean in my office one company washes the inside windows and another does the outside windows. One company provides the milk delivery to each floor, a different one does the tea and coffee. One company supplies the cleaning products, a different one supplies the cleaners. It's just how big buildings and institutions tend to operate due to contracts etc, I think Victoria found it unusual because unlike previous monarchs she and Albert hadn't grown up in the the royal residence so they weren't used to it

Prince Albert dealed with this cleaning

​@@t.bunker2511That's true but they were usually treated like dirt as they were thought of as no better than how we view modern appliances in today's society.

More than that. These positions were highly prized, because it gave courtiers the attention of the king. He would be constantly barrage by gossip, flattery and subtle hints as to who wanted what.

@@DrCruel"We haven't seen him here at Versailles lately" was his nice way of saying "She's out".

does your doctor taste your shit? 😂

How utterly scandalous and unseemly! Please , do go on.

So you summon your family to watch you get dressed? Why?

​@@tac7826so you don't do that how strange I thought that was a perfectly normal thing to do

@@AndyFurze LOL.

the reason he didn't abdicate ... is because the ceremony for abdicating is like 30+ hours 🤣 the king be like: 💀

​@@therearenoshortcuts9868sure it could take 30+ hours but you only have to do it once x3

I know. If I had to do that, I'd lose my head!

Really???? ​@@therearenoshortcuts9868

​@@therearenoshortcuts9868😮😢 ..i would drown myself or go to war and die for nation if I was a king there😂

Back then they also thought having leeches suck your blood was good for you

​@@feonor26phlebotomy is necessary for people with excess, unbound iron and/or hemochromatosis. Not all people are strong enough to donate blood or need to.

@@feonor26 They didn't know why some things worked on certain conditions but not others, so they would use whatever they had on hand liberally "just in case". Leeches could help remove infected blood from a wound but it got used everywhere.

Supongo que para un experto entrenado la orina debe saber distinto en un deshidratado, uno con infección urinaria, alguien con hiperuricemia, uno con hematuria, uno con litiasis o un diabético.

Yeap and till the XIX. century there were no other diagnostic methods detecting diabetes mellitus

As far as I know, the hotel is what used to be the apartment of the Duke du Burgundy. It was purchased and connected to the main Chateau by Louis XV. In 2022, I stayed there for two nights (June 6-8th) in a room that was 'probably' a servants quarter back in the 18th century. My room was very nice and faced the Orangerie on the 2nd floor. On my first night I had trouble sleeping (nothing new) but, constantly felt as if there was another person following me every time I had to use the washroom which was down a small hallway from the bedroom. On my 2nd night I was sitting up in bed (about 1am) when all of a sudden the bedroom door slammed shut! Though no windows were opened I told myself it was wind/air etc. Then around 3 am, I went to the washroom and as I was walking back to the bedroom the trash-can in the washroom was violently kicked across the room making a LOUD crashing noise! At that sound I ran soooo fast towards the bedroom & turned on every light .... I knew 100% that the trash-can had no reason to fall or fly across the floor cause I just left the washroom and everything was normal. The morning after, sure enough, the trash-can in the washroom was toppled over on the floor on the opposite side of the room!!! As grand as it was, I knew that the door slamming and the trash-can flying over were without a physical cause. The place was HAUNTED....!!!!@@PanchCador

The thing that made an impression on me, was how all the rooms were connected without benefit of the hallway.

@boxsterman77 that is a very good observation. In architecture this system is known as an 'enfilad' where each room is directly connected to the next by a series of doors which are usually aligned with each other. In Versailles when you stand at the end of one of the wings and look down the enfilad the effect is almost theatrical (as they appear smaller in the distance). Of all the times I've spoken to ppl about Versailles; you're the first person to mention this & it is such a cool feature of the Château

"enfilade"@@Napp28

A docent scolded me for sitting on the stairs outside of Buckingham Palace.

It is called bashing the Catholic Church.

It wasn't spiritual advice. He was reciting a daily prayer to bless the king.

On the bright side it's not only him. ALL the royals do this.

Louis XIV was so traumatised by the storming of the Louvre, that he created all this nonsense in Versailles to keep courtiers fighting over who would hand him his Whigs, instead of who was going to depose him. Charles II brought some of these habits over to England

@@user-ho7mg9ol7w I've heard of the storming of the Bastille but never storming of the Louvre..??

​@@zoefang4563I dont think our royals in Norway do this.

@@user-ho7mg9ol7wNo Charles II didn’t. It was viewed as equally pompous then as it is now.

Who ever said these were good old days?

WONDERFUL!!! I'm waiting anxiously for this movie. I watch all the trailers, and it looks AMAZING ❤❤❤❤❤

Everything the King did was a spectacle lol

Even now we watch the king's morning ritual reenacted by actors on our phones and computer screens 270 years in the future, just as the king would have wanted.

It's better like that I think, it's more immersive

That'll be your opinion, but I'll confess anyone could still make an English dub if possible. I know if they tried voiceover, it'll be likely for the voices to never connect with the lip synchronizarion. And if they were to remake the movie and hire English-speaking actors to replace the original French-speaking actors, it could be more work unless the producer decides to plan when to handle it by option (it's up to him; I think the producer is a male).

It's released in a subtitled version.

@@Maclabhruinn I see that and I know. I just say anybody can make an English dub if possible. Or likely.

@@th2184_cma_. I supposed what I'm getting at is, there's no need for a version dubbed into English; because there's already a subtitled version. Why bother dubbing when you already have subtitles? That's all that's really needed.

For this you had the many servants.

Romans already had all that, but then came organized religion and the power of the church which led to horrible times.

@@GaiusOctavius4 The "horrible times" were under the Roman emperors - at least under most of them. The Romans during the empire were cold and hard burocrats, soldiers and politicians. Christianity brought relief.

because you are from 21st century 😂... your ancestors would rather be rich than be a farmer would they

There WERE running water, water closet bidets and bathrooms in Versailles in all the apartments in 1770.

😂

Shouldn't the king have something royal about himself?

Actually, it was much more complex than that simplistic 21st century notion of the monarchial lives portrayed in liberal left wing movies and by shoddy history teachers.

@@Timeforcommonsense modern movies lack many historical context for people to understand why things were as such. They only focus on fancy costumes and exaggerated details. One has to know what happened in Louis XIV childhood with the Fronde to understand why the French monarchs always tried to put the nobility in leash

​@@Timeforcommonsensewhat

Actually they were doing much more, it was way longer, here you can only see the royal family coming to see but then other courtisants would come and perform their duty that was A "honor" like giving him his socks, holding his hair etc..

Then again. There wasn't much else to do.

that was literally what he wanted so they didn't have time to conspire against him lol

@@eduardopupucon LOL.

Someone is delusional

I think it's "Marche pour la cérémonie des Turcs" by Jean-Baptiste Lully. Or something else by the same composer.

And she is average and not attractive

Perhaps directorial vanity, perhaps trying to reflect the character of a hard-lived streetwalker (not often found in the First World in this age) trying to fit in to this place and everyone becoming cognizant of the fact that this is a huge scam?

The guy playing Johnny Depp is too tiny for the role.

Slay in your own way 😎

I see Ozzy Osbourne.

All three have one thing in common: they don't look like Louis XV in the slightest. @@nakatakafka

Completely agreed

It's Louis XV. But you're right. Awful mistake.

@@cioccolateriaveneziana No I really did talk about Louis XVI in this movie! just look at him

OMG😨😰🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮

I have to question this statement: Louis XIV, like all members of the Royal family, had bathrooms in their private apartments, complete with tubs and water-heaters. In fact, you can tour Versailles and see the tub for yourself.

@@user-ku6tr4vd6z well, what I'm saying is written in more than one article about the health and hygiene of Louis XIV. I'm not myself an expert in this field; I mean, it's not my job. It's true what you say: there were those magnificent salles de bain for the king and his mistress. But as well there are the chronicles of his physicians describing very carefully what, when and how often the king was cleaning himself. You know what a panier is ? Is a structure that gives a certain shape to the women clothes. So well, at those panier were hanging petit sachets de lavande in order to give a better scent under those very heavy gowns. You know why traditionally weddings are celebrated between May and June ? Because that was the time of the year when the major of people were taking a bath. At least, this what I've been reading.

I’m in uk so a monarch but I haven’t been to Windsor in ages. But I’d prefer a visit to Versailles 😍🥰💖🌸 I do wonder what would happen if France did decide on a monarch today. It would make history ❤️

Thank you.

👑🏰⚔️🛡️⚜️⚜️⚜️💖💎💐🤴👸💍🎂🎈

Non merci 😂

At least it's not ruled by a self-proclaimed "emperor".

Um ... no. He was tasting the urine to determine sugar content. A "sweet" taste could be an indicator of the onset of diabetes.

No no ...questa è Versailles

Isso

The actress is the wrong person 😂😂😂

So is Johnny Depp. I mean, only if he was meant to play Louis XV. If the goal was to make him to another Tim Burton figure, then he was a fine choice.@@ErickHumboldt

My thoughts as well. With that severe overbite, she's quite unattractive.

Depending on the day they were 300 to 10000; Some because they had to, others because they were curious, to make a connection, to watch, to earn money etc..

The other palaces were empty and always ready to serve for short stays. They had to be quickly furnished, though, when the king decided to move there.

@@cioccolateriaveneziana Also, a few generations before the court was often touring from palaces to palaces and bringing their furnitures with them. For example, Charles X did a great "tour de France" and the procession of royal family, courtisants, workers, animals and furnitures was so long and slow that the last one had not left Paris while the first (who came a bit before the king to prepare) were already in the south of France!) They kept movies because "the plague was chasing us way" while well... they were the one spreading the plague across the country.

Charles IX, I suppose. Yes, the rulers had to move around quite often. In German, there is a lovely concoction, "Reisekaisertum". The ruler had to be seen in person in various parts of the country. Basically, Louis XIV broke with the tradition and it became more of a lifestyle, with hunting lodges etc. He was still moving but basically just around Paris. @@SuperLn1991

My sincerest condolences to the real Louis XV. He didn't deserve this portrayal.

no he was the tallest man in court

@@CCI320 ok, but he wasn't a prince charming like they treat him there

Only the king of France. Not his subjects or other kinds/queens.

@@hblask4192 it must be pain in the ass for the king to have his life watched like that everyday

​@@saitokurihara9748There was a point to it. All the people in the room are either powerful nobles, royalty or high ranking clergy, and yet all of them have to stand there and wait, or perform tedious tasks like putting on the king's wig. It's a show of power - "you might be rich and have titles, but you still have to quietly wait for me to dress." Plus, since the roles were prestigious, it kept the nobles fighting each other, and not rebelling against the king. Still, it must have been tedious as hell to sit through.

Men do it all the time. Why can’t she?

@@CordsZ When did a man do that? I want a specific example. Two wrongs don't make a right.

Hey! Isn’t that the actress that played in the fifth element she played the Deva?

I know ! I saw how her mouth is all Gum and Teeth 😂😂 like girl ...

​@@katiekluesner1686 the face yes but not the vocals

No, they were eating cake all the time...

@@cioccolateriaveneziana Fair enough.

Very few latrines. Several thousands living in the palace... People pissed and shited behind curtains and under the stairs. Horrible

​@@NicolasViard-kc9dm That's a legend. It never happened.

Dauphin is the title given to the heir to the throne, whoever he might be. The Dauphin portrayed here is Louis XV's grandson, the future Louis XVI. He has been Dauphin since his father's death a few years earlier.

@@dhgemein2 Yes I know, but not my question. Has the word been adopted in more modern times to describe someone who's an idiot?

Not in my dialect, @@feonor26.

@@feonor26 No, that must be your imagination.

Only the men attended the levee of The King.

Great-grandfather, actually.

So does the room.

They did take bath, Louis XV had a bath with modern plumbing for hot or cold water, but they wouldn't bath everyday (instead they would change clothes up to 5 time per days), just like today, it's not healthy to bath every single day.

@@SuperLn1991 Let me guess, you would often smell and did not care.

​@@georgepierson4920 Let me guess: if you don't shower everyday, you smell and your hair is greasy? Unless you sweat after exercising or it's summer, you don't need to shower every day. It damages your skin and makes it produce more grease in reaction as a protection, same for your hair. In cold weather or without exercising a simple wash (hand face, feet and private parts), a shower every 2 days, healthy food, deodorant and shampoo every week is enough.

@@georgepierson4920 Back in the XVIII° century, hygiene was totally different in Europe. Nobody had a bath right after waking up. What we don't see in this movie (or in others) is that people (the rich ones) used towels impregnated with alcohol to wash. I can hardly imagine what a daily routine with alcohol could do on my skin… Yet, Louis XV had his private bathroom, as well as members of the royal family (you can visit the bathroom of Louis XV and the one of Marie-Antoinette in Versailles). But you are quite right in a way : back then, the perception of smells ans odours in the western world was totally different from ours.

He is french...

At that time, no baths at Versailles.

​@@El_Gungasthat is very much not true

@@HeinrichvonReuss3747 Back in the XVIII° century, hygiene was totally different in Europe, not only in France. Nobody had a bath right after waking up. What we don't see in this movie (or in others) is that people (the rich ones) used towels impregnated with alcohol to wash. I can hardly imagine what a daily routine with alcohol could do on my skin… Yet, Louis XV had his private bathroom, as well as members of the royal family (you can visit the bathroom of Louis XV and the one of Marie-Antoinette in Versailles). If you can prove me that Frederick of Prussia, Maria Teresa of Austria, William IV of Great-Britain, etc, had a daily bath, I would be very grateful 🙂

such a petty

Started no, but is documented from AD 100-200. Also drawings in some high-leveled physicians tombs from middle kingdom of ancient egypt shows something, which was probably pulse measurement (physicians is holding someones wrist while looking on bucket clock). So pulse measumerent was probably thing at least since 1800 BC.

It could have been since the dawn of humanity, because pulse checking is one way to check if someone is alive or not.

it was popular all over the wolrd. This methos was cultivated in China even to early modern age.