17:00 to be accurate Napoleon was never crowned "Emperor of France" but instead "Emperor of the French"...which is different because it is kind of a recognition that his power come from its people. Not from God or himself.
False. Charlemagne was also crowned "emperor of the Romans", by the Pope, so that formula doesn't mean anything like that. The fact that he crowned himself is more intriguing, though, because it goes to show how self-referential his power actually was. (I get that he didn't believe in God, anyhow)
The aim of Napoleon was to turn France into the new Rome. Napoleon was the Emperor of the French rather than Emperor of France to show a filiation with Charlemagne and Rome. That's it and that's all. In the same spirit, he took the golden eagle as the symbole of France as it was the symbole of Rome. There are some parallels in history... when the americans created their country some proclamed that it would become the new Rome and then took the eagle as the symbole of their country.
1000 - 1600: France is a tough kingdom fighting with everyone 1600 - 1790: France is now a big colonial empire across the planet 1790 - 1800: REVOLUTION!!! 1800 - 1815: Napoleon 1815 - 1900: France becomes a world powerhouse again 1900 - 1950: Wars, Wars, Wars 1950 - 1990: Decolonization 1990 - 2010: Economic prosperity and the rise of the European Union 2010 - Now: *FrEnCh SuRrEnDeRiNg MeMeS*
@@louisg6296 Actually, it started in 1940 when they agreed to be Hitler's bitch instead fight. Seems like the (arguably) undeserved reputation of being cowards is slightly preferable to the deserved reputation of being Nazi collaborators throughout the majority of WWII.
Not Tired of Winning France surrendered because it got betrayed by the UK and resulted in a massacre of the army. You can’t defend a country if you lost your soldiers and military heads
Not Tired of Winning And it’s untrue, the meme started in 2004 with the refusal to engage in a non-sense catastrophic war in the middle least, first by renaming French fries “freedom fries”
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France has the best military record of any european nation, quote from the second book of general ignorance byohn Lloyd and John Mitchinson : "According to historian Niall Ferguson, the French have fought more military campaigns than any other European nation and won twice as many battles as they have lost, of the 125 major European wars fought since 1495, the French have participated in fifty - more than both Austria (forty-seven) and England (forty-three). And they’ve achieved an impressive batting average: out of 168 battles fought since 387 BC, they have won 109, lost forty-nine and drawn ten.this makes France the most successful military power in European history ! The British always prided themselves on superiority at sea, but this was only because they realised they could never win a land war on the Continent. The French army has, for most of history, been the largest, best equipped and most strategically innovative in Europe. At its best, led by Napoleon in 1812, it achieved a feat that even the Nazis couldn’t repeat: it entered Moscow. These remarkable achievements help explain another French military victory. Whether it is ranks (general, captain,corporal, lieutenant...); equipment (lance, mine, bayonet,epaulette, trench...); organisation (volunteer, regiment, soldier, barracks...) or strategy (army, camouflage, combat, esprit de corps, reconnaissance...), the language of warfare is written in one language : French."
Long live to the Eternal France ! From the depths of prehistoric ages to the present day, France has a unique history in the world. Its history and its destiny are not yet complete. It carries within it a universal message for all of humanity in a unique civilization in the world.
it comes from the monarchial democracy in 1789-1792 ie after revolution and before the republic. the tiers-état - the representative of non nobles nor ecclesiastic - requested the king louis 16 to accept to reign for the people (under their control) instead of remaining as traditionnally the king of Frane. Napoleon remembered this and appeared as obedient to revolutionary spirit in spite of gathering all powers not to challenge the intelligentia.
A small nitpick: the Francia wasn't divided into three because of communication issues, rather because the law dictated that the kingdom would be divided between all of the king's sons upon his death
Great point, all because of succession law. Back in the day, they hadn't made laws specifically for royal families. The country was legally considered as the propriety of the king, he was even free to sell it, and as a propriety it was devided between the sons during succession.
This fact is actually crucial. The Holy Roman Germanic Empire of Charlemagne has been shared between the three sons, according to the Frankish tradition... All the wars between France and Austria and then with Prussia / Germany are a consequence of this fact.
@@toutcramer2027 Except the actual Imperial title passed from Charlemagne to his son, and then onto Lothair of middle Francia. It then passed to Lious II of Italy before being passed around even more finally ending with Charles the Fat. The HRE is a new empire created by the Ottonians who took control over East Frankia, and is not a direct continuation of Charlemagne’s empire
@@Skelig nah they would argue that they won plenty given that they are a young country, and then us europeans would argue that battles won by going in countries way weaker than you just for oil are a bit less glorious. Not saying battlefields everywhere in europe were a good thing tho.
@@MrSupernova111 they do count. But most of the US victories in battle (800 or so, wich is insane for a country so young, placing them at number 3 behind the UK and France) were won against way way weaker opponents. That same critique apply to colonial victories from european countries too, but still, most of their battles were between each other in europe. France for example had to face multiple coalitions alone and won against most of them. And thats an apparte since i am not sure avout the data, but werent the US much stronger than any of the tired countries in europe, including germany by the end of ww2 ? Did the US really send all of their might to vietnam ? (no disrespect for the brave US vets, but if it wasnt a secondary war against a weaker opponent, they would have had at least a few nukes, making open war impossible.)
@@popkhorne5372 "much stronger than Germany by end of WWII" - yeah well, that was the point of WWII, so yes, but that doesn't prove your point. Vietnam - even harder, and that shows what's wrong with casting war in a strong vs. weak frame. Viets and US had different motives, tools, cultural approaches to the war, uses of the terrain, weapons, strategies - that's how the US could believe they were winning until they suddenly had lost (one of the reasons there were no atom bombs, other being risks of escalation, moral damage, and having no clue where to drop them).
@@cboisvert2 what i mean is that the US never had to face an opponent stronger than them. The only reason they lost wars was because they didnt send their full might : no more total war. Even though many soldiers were sent to vietnam, the US never used anything near their full capacity. Well the war of indépendance is the only evident exeption.
Napoleon Bonaparte's Illyrian Provinces , despite being short-lived, kindled the area's patriotism. For the then Slovenian lands it was a massive deal, due to Slovenian becoming a schooling language for basic education, French was a higher education language. It left a mark in Slovenia and Slovenians never forgot Napoleon, having the biggest monument to him outside of France. In Croatia this sparked their national revival. The Illyrian Provinces lasted not even 4 years.
There were 53 major conflicts in Europe. France will have been a belligerent in 49 of them, and the United Kingdom in 43. Of the 185 battles that France has fought over the last 800 years, its armies will have won 132 of them, and lost 43, leaving only 10 indecisive battles Thus giving the French military the record of victories in Europe and therefore in the world. France is the nation that has participated in the greatest number of war and battle throughout the history of Humanity. - Over the last 800 years France has beaten more than 200 years against England, more than 150 years against the Germanic nations, more than 190 years against the Spanish / Portuguese, and against many other nations. Very often these wars were waged against France, which was outnumbered by coalitions of several nations aimed at destroying it. France, the warrior nation par excellence, the strategies deployed by these generals are still studying today, including the campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte. On all the lands and continents France has shown the world what it was worth in the fight. But France is also the one that colonized England in 1066, this Francized country for centuries to the point that 40% of English words are of French origin. It is the Nation Daughter-eld of the church, because the first barbarian King of Europe to be converted is none other than Clovis I, King of the Franks, she is therefore the protector of the Christianity, even in her national borders we feel the destiny. The one that dismantled the 900-year-old Holy Roman Empire. Allowing Germany to be born 65 years later. That which allowed the independence of the USA fighting in America against the English. The country of "Dynasties" Many European kings have French ancestries. - Under Saint Louis France is the richest and most populous country in Europe as well as the most developed intellectually and artistically influencing all of Europe. - The Amerindians nicknamed the King of France the Great Onontio "the greatest mountain of the earth" at the end of the seven-year war, overwhelmed then by the French defeat and their fate throw in the hands of the English who will exterminate them thereafter. The one that dominated Europe for several centuries making her royal court the most popular and appreciated by the Kings of Europe. The country of humanism and human rights and the first modern European democracy. But France is something else: France is the second nation in the world to have done the most invention and discovery. - It was the 2nd largest colonial empire in the world, spanning all continents and oceans. - It has the 1st largest global maritime area before the US in 2018 - It is the largest nation in the European Union in terms of area. - First European Agricultural Power and 4th world. - 5th world military power and 1st European. - 5th World Economic Power. - Permanent member of the UN alongside the USA, Russia, China and England. - 2nd industrial and commercial power of Europe. France is also the third country in the world to have manufactured the atomic bomb. France is also a space power, the third nation to conquer space, the most important space budget of the European agency. France is also famous for its gastronomy around the world. France is also the first nation in terms of Art.1 world tourist destination far ahead of the others French is today the 5th most spoken language in the world - French is the 3rd language of business in the world - French is the 4th language of the internet. - French is the 4th language of the internet.
4th nation to develop and use the bomb Manhattan Project - America and Britain developed jointly but deployed by America. 1945 RDS-1 - First Russian/Soviet deployment of a nuclear weapon. 1949 Hurricane - First British atomic detonation. 1952 Gerboise Bleue - First French bomb. 1960
Love how Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill launched Operation Overlord, saving France, and then Charles De Gaulle goes out of his way to deny the UK from joining the European Coal and Steel Community many times because 'they suck'
@@rhiannejones3815 it's easy to say this now but I'd love to see what you'd have done in such a situation. You can't judge the past based on what you think you would've done today if this happened to you. Free French fought for their freedom and it was brave of them. As for those who collabored, who knows, maybe you would've been one of them. Or not. It's easy to degrade them while seating peacefully behind your screen but beware of such anachronisms.
This is pretty good. A lot of stereotypes tho (Robespierre never ruled France alone, and Napoleon III's reign is largely underestimated), but I understand you would spend hours if you had to explain and debunk them all.
Napoleon III was a good economist but a poor diplomat. He launched France into the industrial era but ultimately failed to keep peace and awnsered too quickly to provocation.
@@TropicalAsian-1000 Oui donc tu ne connais rien de Napoléon III, de sa politique économique à la reconstruction de paris à la conquête mexicaine et la victoire de crimée et le début de l'alliance militaire anglo-francaise, et le retour à l'unité française..
@@rafaelcalvo3516 Oh, you mean, like in former New France aka USA for example? Seriously dude, confirmation bias won't help you understand anything in the world. If you wanna compare apples, compare them to apples. You'll quickly see what's really fucking up the "former colonies" you're mentioning without realising they were from various countries that had either different or similar approaches. All results were the same regarding certain areas... Because it has nothing to do with colonisation, duh. This is not the factor at play here. And you won't make any progress unless you actually get the full picture.
@@Marhakon That's debatable. France is still top 20 out of the 198 countries that exist in the world. Could do more, sure, but being in the top 10% is certainly what you could call greatness. The problem of France isn't that it needs to be "Great again". It is that it needs to *stay great* and for that, it needs to clean up the political and cultural mess that threatens its greatness.
Well napolean tried to conquer Portugal but failed 3 times (with the help of England army mostly) - Portugal was always trying to mind their own business since the beginning of their history, even on the discoverment era we mostly just wanted to establish trade routes and spread knowledge (slave market was a consequence of the politics surrounding nobility) tho
@@sophiemartin7778 Untrue. What is now Swiss was a country heavily involved in european history for thousands of years. The neutrality politic of modern Swiss is in fact a consequence of being now reluctant to get involved too much.
@@axelcorreia6834 Untrue. Like other european countries Portugal was involved into politics, wars, and yes, religious affairs for quite a while. There was indeed a will to "live and let live", so to speak. But this was never truly achieved. Greetings from a half french, half Portuguese by the way 😉.
The French surrender jokes got old really fast(literally 70% of the comments). It’s pretty dumb considering the victories in the Napoleonic era and WWI.
WWI? was mostly won because of english blockades and germany faced depleting resources. At the end of WWI not one russian, belgian, english or french soldier set foot on german soil before they surrendered. France has a rich history on which they may be proud, but WWI is kinda a bad pick... even though I love the French history and see what a great nation it once was. During WWI i was disgusted with them that has a lot to do with the respect and moral compass between the leaders during different times of the same country.
Laurens Brand Sure, Germany was defeated more by the blockade starving out the country BUT a- the french did just as much as the british to put together that blockade (they patrolled the Mediterenean while the brits patrolled the North Sea) and b- the french practically held France alone from 1914 to 1917, against a stronger country that had invaded their industrial regions. So if France had not held for all that time, the blockade wouldn't even have begun to had an effect.
I was adopted in 1959, and lived in The Bronx, NY, then, Brewster, NY and was born in Montreal. I found my biological family in 1999 at 40 years old Canada. Since I love history, I researched when I received a genealogical chart, of both my grandparents family, that dates back to Normandie in the 1600's. Now, I need to know why they left when they did for Canada, and with this video, I can produce a timeline....I love history, especially when it's my own! My father had come to Canada from Hungary during the Revolution in 1956. I have quite the heritage, and I want to be certain, my grandchildren are left with a book of both my backgrounds, biological and pure love and acceptance...
Being french myself, it really helped me to have a more objective view on my own country... thanks! :) The Entire History of Russia would be great, considering how important their story is!
Je ne suis pas sur que la vision de l'histoire de France écrite par des peuples en guerre avec elle soit très objective non plus. Sa vidéo est pleine de raccourcis, d'omissions et d'analyses fortement contestables.
Talk to any french and they will tell you that the first french King was Clovis in the sixth century...not Charlemagne and his successors in the ninth... Nothing to talk about: Just 3 centuries... (longer than the entire history of the us)but, hey ! Whose counting ??? ( no offense to US here Just pure algebra) lol 😁
Clovis (Chlodwig) as Charlemagne (Karl der Große) were kings of the franks, not french kings. They are part of the french History as they are part of the Germany History (could include even more western countries history)
@@aeralu4986 are you german ? if we want to find a date that make the fondation of germany is in east francia with otto the first in 842 ! so yes we share france and germany the same history at the beginning !! but i think you call france frankreich in german ! no ? the franks are the people who founded france !!
@@roms4154 I'm not german but it doesn't matter right? All I'm saying here is it doesn't make sense to consider Clovis and Charlemagne as french kings because we are talking about something that didn't even exist back then (or if you prefer, they were kings for what is called now France, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, switzerland, even a part of Denmark) I have no idea how the History is taught in France but if you consider franks as the only people who founded France, then you have a lack of knowledge of your own History. Franks were Germanic speakers coming from the East and yes they were part of the foundation of many nowadays countries but not only France... By the way, France has not been founded only by Franks but also by Celts, Greeks, Romans, Iberans, Vikings, Ligurians, Gauls and what french people are today is a mixt of all these origins and influences.
@@aeralu4986 look you make a confusion with the maker of france and the ethnicity of french people ! we french are a mixt between celts (gauls) , romans and germanics tribes "like franks , burgundy ,wisigoths" ! but the franks make francia and that is nowday called france ! belgium ,netherland , switzerland were made by HRE !! not the franks ! there is some franks DNA for sure but they didn't found kingdome of netherland , belgium, switzerland or germany ! those countries arrived as unified countries much more later than the reign of the franks in europe !! france as state is very old like england but not the others !! i don't understand how you can't get it ! PS: belgium was a part of france for centuries !
After his victory at the Battle of Hastings, William "Guillaume le Conquérant" marched on London and received the city’s submission. On Christmas Day of 1066, he was crowned the first Norman king of England, in Westminster Abbey, and the Anglo-Saxon phase of English history came to an end. French became the language of the king’s court and gradually blended with the Anglo-Saxon tongue to give birth to modern English. (Illiterate like most nobles of his time, William spoke no English when he ascended the throne and failed to master it despite his efforts. Thanks to the Norman invasion, French was spoken in England’s courts for centuries and completely transformed the English language, infusing it with new words.) William “ Guillaume le conquérant “ I proved an effective king of England, and the “Domesday Book,” a great census of the lands and people of England, was among his notable achievements.
@@ChrisCrossClash la civilisation est arrivée en Angleterre par la France et ça tu n’y peux rien. Aujourd’hui les normands sont français et parlent français, tu es mieux de t’y habituer. De plus, j’ignore comment écrire connard en anglais et ça ne me tente pas de l’apprendre.
@@wertyuiopasd6281 You are speaking the language of my people from England, you still mad that English is the number one world de-facto language, and French isn't,your nation is turning into Muslim land as well.
What a historical video! I loved it! 🇫🇷💙 France has a history like nobody else. I just finished a book of Gustave Le Bon Psichology of revolution and I see that everything is connected. What is happening now in France it is just a reflections from past all these protests is in their blood from previous generations. I am from Lithuania and when Napoleon Bounaparte went to Russia he stopped in Vilnius. And from this time we have St. Anne's church which got in to the eye of Napoleon. He was so fond of it that he said: "If I would be able I would take it to my palm and take it to France". It is one of Europe's Gothic style diamonds 💎 I kindly welcome you to visit Vilnius 💛💚♥️ #Gothic #France #Lithuania #Vilnius #VisitVilnius
well, the frankish empire was divided not because of its size, but because of the salic law that stated that each son had to inherit a part of their father possession...
Before saying that the France just surrender, remember: -France has the most successfully army in Europe -France is the country that most wined wars in the world -France has the best army in Europe in now days -They had a 100 years war (and technically wined) -France X England (4X3 for France) -France X Germany (7X4 for France) -France X Russia (4X2 for France) -United States, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and all Central America, just are independents because France
Absolutely loved this video! You did a great job of illustrating how, for better, for worse, or both, France has been instrumental in shaping Europe. I would love to see you do a video on Poland, if possible!
There were 53 major conflicts in Europe. France has been a belligerent in 49 of them, and the UK in 43. Among the 185 battles that France has delivered over the last 800 years, her armies will have won 132 of them, and will have lost 43, leaving only 10 undecided battles, giving the French military the record of victories in Europe
Germans: Proclame themselves an empire in Versailles French and allies: Take colonies from germans, control their country and make them pay for the war *_in Versailles_*
Can you do a video on Spanish and French colonization in North America? Everyone knows the British colonies, but my hometown in Wisconsin is 350 years old, and most people outside Canada & the Great Lakes/Upper Mississippi don't understand the fur trade era. And many Americans have a poor grasp on the full extent of Spanish colonization.
In that case the American loss in Vietnam is more important than their victory in 1945, there is also Iraq and Afghanistan where the US Army didn't really shine either.
In the end germany as pretty much won nothing for the past 150 years ( including losing WWI and II ) and is now seeing its original population dominated by newcomers from the middle-east with a stunning spike in rapes and criminality, after losing everything to the rest of the world they are now being little bitches in their own country, truly a country of weaklings and failures.
The number of errors, intentionally or unintentionally, is incredible and always in favor of the Anglo-Saxon vision. Let's take for example the last century. It was not the arrival of the US soldiers that turned the tide of the war, they entered the battle when the balance of power had already tipped. The presence of the US soldiers made us win 1 years of war and therefore of preserved lives, which must be admitted. Then, he forgets the preponderant role economically, energetically, financially, politically (enormous pressure of the diplomats so that France does not build the Maginot line until the North Sea, or we can evoke the British role to prevent France from allying itself to the Soviet Union as soon as Germany was remilitarized, to prevent the influence of France in Western Europe and to allow the continuity of the German-British commercial exchanges) and industrially (surface military) of the United States and the United Kingdom on the recomposition of the German power and therefore the Nazis. And, it is better not to speak of the revolutions supposedly originating from the people, while they were organized by the bourgeoisie, and followed by urbanites affiliated with bourgeois affairs. And so the excuse of balance of power invented by the English makes me laugh, unless we call balance of power the important of the talented English diplomats who excelled in their fields. It is the only country, which however dominated the seas, and thus the maritime trade to their profits, never suffered a single coalition against it. The alliance between Saxon and Germanic cousins was always easy. The problem with videos or films is that they are now based on the Anglo-Saxon vision of history, whereas we have known for a long time that they have a mania for rewriting history for their own benefit. They only celebrate their victories, while in the Latin vision, we can also honor our defeats, the most example is camerone for the legion.
Eh JP Morgan and Friends literally bankrolled France during WW1. You are right that the war turned before US troops entered the war but US aid was critical to France’s ability to fight the war as long as it did as ww1 was a giant battle of attrition.
@@ChrisCrossClash exactly. They're almost as bad as the Americans. Those jokers have never won a serious war without British help either, but you wouldn't know it to hear them brag
15:31 It's the Declaration of Pillnitz (or »Pillnitzer Deklaration« in German), named after the place, Pillnitz, where it was signed. The -er is just a German suffix indicating origin, just like »Pilsener« means 'from Pilsen (Plzeň)'.
Love France from Romania...France was the only contry who helped us...I know that now days France didn't like us but my respect remain the same...God bless you
I wonder why you say we don't love you. You are a latin people. Maybe because a lot of roms (gypsies) go in France? I have a friend marry with a moldovian girl (yes not romanian but you are cousin) et they have french children. 🤗
"The whole history of the Roman Empire", from the foundation of Rome in -753 BC to the fall of the last Byzantine territory, the Principality of Theodoros in 1479 AD. this is the dream.
Omfg... This was a blast. Would personally love more of these... Of course, Russia, Britain, Roman, Ottoman Empires, and the various dynasties that ruled China are wanted videos. Hope you cover these as fast as you possibly can.
13:52 "France was more than happy to help" might be a bit misleading. It took a lot of convincing by John Adams to get France, still a monarchy, to support a country that just revolted to form an elected government, however their naval support was critical in the revolutions success.
Great video, there is just one thing though. You said "the 10's of thousand americans became too much for Germany" referring to the surrender of the German Empire in WWI? Well this implies that the war was won thanks to the US army. But that's just all wrong, the american soliders were yes 10's of thousand to land in french ports, but very little of them saw combat, so few that the US army participation to the war was totally negligible. Actually the US army was desperately bad and had to be (re)trained and (re)equiped by the French and British armies. To conclude implying WW1 was won thanks to american reinforcement is wrong, because most men were still in ships, crossing the atlantic or in French ports and training camps when Germany surrendered. It certainly weighed in the decision to surrender, but that's it. * France and Britain could not have won without the support of the American industry, but the US army did close to nothing in this war. Don't be mad at me for telling the truth. The US army did a great thing for France in WWII, but they were useless in WWI. Although I realise that there was somes acts of bravery and a few succesful encounters, but it was just a case of too little too late.
@Antimatter But the Russians did win the war for europe at the end ..... do you see how much countries they pass threw to get to germany and them tribute of lost in that wars is the most impressive
Yes, United States losses were only 117,000 deaths in WW1 and the US military forces were inept as French and British forces. The US quickly learned that French and British military equipment had to be replaced by US made equipment. I am thankful that my relative who was a WW1 veteran didn't have to face his German cousin in conflict. I am really amazed that the French and British just didn't tell the Americans to sit in their camps and play cards since their ability to defeat the Germans was going so well.
Great video as usual. Of course you had to skip some important parts but you had to keep it short. I have just a regret is that sometimes this type of videos focus a bit too much about military history and not enough about the construction of some social specifics of a country. For example some events like la Commune or the Dreyfus Case had major consequences on the French social structure. It might be really interesting for outsiders to discover those things that are our defining heritage for us but overwhelmingly unknown for foreigners.
except Louis XIV never actually said "I'm the state", that's a myth and he understood good was above him. the protestant history is very different that what was explain. The lower administration were coming to him with list of fake conversations and he tried to push the "few" protestant left.
Thank you so much for this! French history has always been blurry for me. Thanks to this and a Wikipedia article, “Family Tree of French monarchs (simplified)” it’s a lot more clear now! And holy cow! That’s a lot of wars!!!
Wooow, this video was so amazing! If you do do more of these History videos, I'm sure people would love them - I certainly did. 👏👏👏👏 Thank you for this History lesson😊
It would’ve been cool if you covered the invasion of Gaul by the romans, instead of just the Franks onwards. The Gauls/Gallo-Romans are believed to make up the majority of French ancestry because the Franks were a ruling minority similar to the Normans in England. That’s why France still has a ton of Roman influence and speaks a Latin language
Hi everyone! So this is (by quite some bit) my longest video to date as I take on the insanely difficult task of trying to cram all of French history into one video. This obviously means missing out some stuff, and some oversimplifications where necessary, but I hope I've done their history justice, which really is truly fascinating. This is something that could potentially become a new series, The Entire History of [Country] in X Minutes, depending on how this video goes. So I could really use your feedback and if that's something that you would like to see in future, please let me know. Thanks for watching and subscribing!
Loved the video! If I could recommend a country, I'd ask for the History of Brazil, Paraguay or Argentina next. They all have lesser known but very interesting histories, and I think it would be a less daunting task then doing another history video of a huge European country like Germany or Britain.
it's not 1968 events which costed De Gaulle fall, after the events of may 1968, there were general election (23 and 30 june 1968) and De Gaulle parti won the election by far : fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lections_l%C3%A9gislatives_fran%C3%A7aises_de_1968. After this election, De gaulle had a very comfortable majority of 350 deputies on 487. If you call that a defeat, you must take some treatment and call your Doctor or your psy. De Gaulle left because of his ego after having lost for the regionalisation referendum of 1969. De Gaulle is the president which had what other after him hadn't : Honour. He lost a non important referendum, then he decided to leave power, which french people didn't want and was very affected. After him, all other presidents had no Honour... Pompidou let UK entering EEC and being then the Troyan horse of the USA in it. Giscard had the affair of the diamonds and was Mitterand lost 2 general elections by far (especially in 1993) but refused to leave and named 2 prime ministres from his opponents. Chirac lost a general election and do the same, he even lost the referendum on the european constitution but stayed in power as if nothing happened. Sarkozy imposed the european constitution that french people had refused 3 years before. Hollande was a joke and Macron is an opportunist banker at the orders of the globalists. Funny fact, Mitterrand, the strongest opponent to De Gaulle did in 1981 the regionalisation that Mitterrand had asked french people to refuse in 1969...
13:20 “Although some minor skirmishes happened in North America between the French and British colonies...” Where I come from, those were HUGE events. Fort Duquesne, and later Fort Pitt, held a major strategic position at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers, in what is now Pittsburgh. In fact, the entire American theater of the war started with a dispute over control of the area. They had a major impact on the history of this area.
you're an absolute and fascinating riot of information ! do everything ! ( I'm not in agreement with everything thing said , as so much is left out , but you're witty and entertaining and full of tidbits of fun , and historical facts ! actually I'm amazed at how much you're able to squeeze into such a short span of time , condensing over a thousand years of story into twenty minutes is a feat ! really enjoyed it , do more !
20:56 WTF ? tens of thousands of american change nothing about french victory ... review your books honestly (you played too much at Battlefield 1 maybe ...)
@@teslaasmr9375 No he's right, the eastern front was devastating for both Russia and Germany ad that's not because one belligerant "surrenders" that it has done nothing in the war
I love how the 7 coalitions against the French, the English were in involved in every single one of them. It’s like if anyone was going to take them they wanted it to be them, some could say that could almost loving! 🤣
Yes, English, but mostly English gold and money, not their soldiers... in proportion , English troops did only few (and most of the soldiers of Britain were mercenaries or from colonies). Prussia, Austria, Russia, Spain did more than English.
@@jpc7118 Mate, half the coalitions WOULDNT EVEN EXIST with British influence. Not to mention the Royal Navy crippled the french navy AND won at waterloo.
@@cw19280 Right for the Navy, wrong for waterloo... if ti wasn't for Purussian arrivals, English would have lost a tactical battle. On land, British troops didn't bring much in all the coalitions. Even at Waterloo, most british crown troops were Hanovrians and Hessen then germans soldiers. The british land army has always been inferior one to one to french and prussian... the frnehc and indian wars needed 7 years of fights in canada, when british were outnumbering the French by 50 to 1 in colons and 20 to 1 in soldiers... British involved and paid all the coalitions for only few british blood. The war was won on the ground by Russians + Prussians + Austrians+ Spanish + Sweden + many other allies... the british troops were only few. BTW Waterloo even if Blucher hadn't arrived in time, it would have been a tactical minor victory for the French. Russians and austrians armies were arriving and were outnumbering an exhausted France. The Napoleonic war should truly be called the british imperial wars. It's Britiain which wished the wars. At the exception of the Russian campaign, France never attacked first, but reacted to declarations of war. Napoleon did the Amiens and Lunéville treaty to obtain a definitive peace. Britian worked in the dark to obtain a new coalition against France in 1802-1803.
Le nombre d'erreur, volontairement ou involontairement, est incroyable et toujours au profit de la vision anglo-saxonne. Prenons par exemple le dernier siècle. Ce n'est aucunement la venue des soldats des états-unis qui le tournant de la guerre, ils sont entrés dans la bataille lorsque la balance de puissance avait déjà basculé. La présence des soldats des USA a fait gagner 1 ans de guerre et donc de vies préservées ce qui faut avouer. Ensuite, il oublie le rôle prépondérant économiquement, énergiquement, financièrement, politiquement (pression énorme des diplomates pour que la france ne construisent pas la ligne Maginot jusqu'en mer du nord, ou on peut évoquer du rôle britannique pour empêcher la france de s'allier au soviet dès la remilitarisation de l'allemagne pour empêcher l'influence de la france en europe occidentale et de permettre la continuité des échanges commerciaux germano britanique) et industriellement (militaire maritime de surface) des états unis et du royaume unis sur la recomposition de la puissance allemande et donc nazis. Et, il ne vaut mieux parler des révolutions soi-disant provenant du peuple, alors qu'elles étaient organisées par les bourgeois, et suivit par des urbains affiliés aux affaires bourgeoises. Et alors l'excuse de balance de pouvoir inventée par les anglais me fait bien rire, à moins d'appeler balance de pouvoir,l'importante des talentueux diplomates anglais qui excellaient dans leurs domaines. C'est le seul pays, qui pourtant dominait les mers, et donc le commerce maritime à leurs profits, n'a jamais subit une seule coalition contre elle. L'alliance entre cousin saxon et germanique a toujours été facile. Le problème des vidéos ou films sont dorénavant basés sur la vision anglo-saxonne de l'histoire alors qu'on le sait depuis fort longtemps, ils ont la manie de réécrivent l'histoire à leurs profits. Ils ne fêtent que leurs victoires, alors que par exemple dans la vision latine, nous pouvons aussi faire honneurs à nos défaites, le plus exemple est camerone pour la légion.
C est grâce à la France que les bouffeur de burgers ont pu avoir leur indépendance Puis ils ont perdu la guerre de Vietnam , et maintenant leurs soldats sont trop gras pour se battre . Maintenant ils sont très bons a tirer sur des étudiants sans défense !
Moondie Merci pour cette excellente analyse! Les alliés naturels étaient toujours la France et l'Allemagne! Cela a toujours été entravé par l'aristocratie européenne dont les intérêts ont toujours été personnels!
Interesting, I was hoping that you would have covered some of French history in south east Asia. I have read some interesting books on Vietnam and growing up while the US stupidly followed all of France’s mistakes. Of course we also failed to read the history of Afghanistan, when we didn’t look at 3 different wars with Britain (some of my maternal and paternal relatives died for “crown and country”) and we didn’t learn from history in that case either. But it was an interesting and educational video. Not much about the auld alliance, that would have also been interesting. Having been to Scotland 12 times to visit my family, I don’t have any difficulty with your mild accent ( Edinburgh? Low lands?) but I’m curious how many Americans can understand you?
I know people love to make surrender jokes but think about it, we've been there since the treaty of Verdun in 843, surrounded by the greatest european powers for more than a thousand years, and we're still there. There's no other country in Europe who waged and won more battles than us. It's easy to call the 300 000 french soldiers who died during WWII cowards while sitting in front of your computer eating junk food. But the truth is, war is no laughing matter and we can't comprehend it unless we've been on the battlefield ourselves.
Interesting history, thanks for video! Love France from Ukraine! We started our diplomatic Ukrainian-French relations since 838 and also, when the Ukrainian duchess and French queen Anna Yaroslavna (Anna de Kyїv) (1024-1075) came to Paris.
I would be very interested in seeing a video on the crisis of 1958 and how DeGaulle came back to power and how the modern 5th republic was established.
Hi Wonderwhy, i'm a french subscriber :) I really love history so i was very excited when i saw this video. And she is very good and complete, you really well understand our long and complex history (19 century is a complete mess). NOW, TIME FOR THE CRITIC (i'm sorry, i still love your video). I think you should (maybe) have talk about Vercingétorix and Gaull, but most certainly you should have talked about Clovis and his baptism (sometimes consider has the birth of France, it depends). Maybe that's because i'm stupid but i found the moment about Charlemagne very unclear. Because you talk of the end of the carolingian empire BEFORE Charlemagne, it looks like he only ruled on western Francia, and the destruction of his empire is most due to a battle of inheritance with his heirs than the height of the empire. After that i have little to say, you maybe should have more talk about the war of 1870 (and so the commune of France) because it looks like Napoleon III lost many wars against Germany. And talk about Charles De Gaulles during WW2 to understand why he arrives to the power in 1958. That's all folks !
Napoleon III only had one war against Germany. Before that France under his leadership won Crimean War and defeated Austrians in 1859 gaining Savoy and Nice
The Carolingian empire was nog dividend because of the lack of communication but by the law that each son must inherate a part of the empire. And in this case it was divided between Lothaire Charles the Bald and Louis the German
Great video, very accurate. One small nitpick - about the second empire. It lasted 18 years, longer than the first. While military endeavours were indeed catastrophic, the economic and social changes of France were significant. Napoleon III brought France into the industrial age, and oversaw the renovation of Paris with the Baron Haussmann, leading to Paris as a city as it is known today.
17:00 to be accurate Napoleon was never crowned "Emperor of France" but instead "Emperor of the French"...which is different because it is kind of a recognition that his power come from its people. Not from God or himself.
True
Too nitpicky
and napoleon chose the title of emperor instead of king so as not to betray the revolution
False. Charlemagne was also crowned "emperor of the Romans", by the Pope, so that formula doesn't mean anything like that.
The fact that he crowned himself is more intriguing, though, because it goes to show how self-referential his power actually was.
(I get that he didn't believe in God, anyhow)
The aim of Napoleon was to turn France into the new Rome. Napoleon was the Emperor of the French rather than Emperor of France to show a filiation with Charlemagne and Rome. That's it and that's all. In the same spirit, he took the golden eagle as the symbole of France as it was the symbole of Rome. There are some parallels in history... when the americans created their country some proclamed that it would become the new Rome and then took the eagle as the symbole of their country.
1000 - 1600: France is a tough kingdom fighting with everyone
1600 - 1790: France is now a big colonial empire across the planet
1790 - 1800: REVOLUTION!!!
1800 - 1815: Napoleon
1815 - 1900: France becomes a world powerhouse again
1900 - 1950: Wars, Wars, Wars
1950 - 1990: Decolonization
1990 - 2010: Economic prosperity and the rise of the European Union
2010 - Now: *FrEnCh SuRrEnDeRiNg MeMeS*
actually, "french surrender" jokes started in 2004, when france refused to join the war against iraq
@@louisg6296 Actually, it started in 1940 when they agreed to be Hitler's bitch instead fight. Seems like the (arguably) undeserved reputation of being cowards is slightly preferable to the deserved reputation of being Nazi collaborators throughout the majority of WWII.
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Not Tired of Winning France surrendered because it got betrayed by the UK and resulted in a massacre of the army. You can’t defend a country if you lost your soldiers and military heads
Not Tired of Winning And it’s untrue, the meme started in 2004 with the refusal to engage in a non-sense catastrophic war in the middle least, first by renaming French fries “freedom fries”
France and England: frienemys ever since 1066.
Ha bon ?
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I think there was an Anglo-French War at some point... idk when tho.
@@michaelbourdages4777 And don't forget their biggest "no u" to each other, Hundred Years War (1337-1453)
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France has the best military record of any european nation, quote from the second book of general ignorance byohn Lloyd and John Mitchinson : "According to historian Niall Ferguson, the French have fought more military campaigns than any other European nation and won twice as many battles as they have lost, of the 125 major European wars fought since 1495, the French have participated in fifty - more than both Austria (forty-seven) and England (forty-three). And they’ve achieved an impressive batting average: out of 168 battles fought since 387 BC, they have won 109, lost forty-nine and drawn ten.this makes France the most successful military power in European history !
The British always prided themselves on superiority at sea, but this was only because they realised they could never win a land war on the Continent.
The French army has, for most of history, been the largest, best equipped and most strategically innovative in Europe. At its best, led by Napoleon in 1812, it achieved a feat that even the Nazis couldn’t repeat: it entered Moscow.
These remarkable achievements help explain another French military victory. Whether it is ranks (general, captain,corporal, lieutenant...); equipment (lance, mine, bayonet,epaulette, trench...); organisation (volunteer, regiment, soldier, barracks...) or strategy (army, camouflage, combat, esprit de corps, reconnaissance...), the language of warfare is written in one language : French."
Nice info
Wow
Napoleon was able to enter Moscow because the Russians let him so that they could set it on fire while the french were still inside the city.
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They also lost a fair share of notable conflicts.
@Jameson Audette Not cool dude
Louis XIV: I am the state
Napoleon: I am the revolution
Palpatine: I am the senate
Zachary Adams this needs more likes lmao
Redskull it has 107 likes on a video with 8000 views I'd say it has a lot xD
Dredd: I am the law!
Zachary Adams +
I am the high ground
"Twenty centuries of history are there to testify that we are always right to have faith in France."
Charles De Gaulle.
De Gaulle when he can't _not_ cause an international incident every 5 minutes.
@@concept5631 Gigachad DeGaulle
50% of that history is basically "Hey let's nag the English, it seems fun". 😁
Long live to the Eternal France ! From the depths of prehistoric ages to the present day, France has a unique history in the world. Its history and its destiny are not yet complete. It carries within it a universal message for all of humanity in a unique civilization in the world.
Next step: France will get rid of capitalism and install real democracy
Napoleon styled himself Emperor of the French, not Emperor of France; there is meaning in that.
:D he actually had hope for the French, instead of his actual ancestors. That does tell you something, I guess.
it comes from the monarchial democracy in 1789-1792 ie after revolution and before the republic. the tiers-état - the representative of non nobles nor ecclesiastic - requested the king louis 16 to accept to reign for the people (under their control) instead of remaining as traditionnally the king of Frane. Napoleon remembered this and appeared as obedient to revolutionary spirit in spite of gathering all powers not to challenge the intelligentia.
Napoleon I the Emperor of EUROPE
@@veraciteabsolue1221 Even though he wasn't a democrat, he truly was a believer of the revolutionnary ideals.
@@mr.meeseeks3074 as he said, 《La Révolution est terminée, elle est fixée aux principes qui l'ont commencée 》
A small nitpick: the Francia wasn't divided into three because of communication issues, rather because the law dictated that the kingdom would be divided between all of the king's sons upon his death
This part was simplified probably because at that time France was more its proto-self. Focused clearly more on later eras.
@@dmdoudou there's a huge difference beetween simplification and false information though.
Great point, all because of succession law. Back in the day, they hadn't made laws specifically for royal families. The country was legally considered as the propriety of the king, he was even free to sell it, and as a propriety it was devided between the sons during succession.
This fact is actually crucial. The Holy Roman Germanic Empire of Charlemagne has been shared between the three sons, according to the Frankish tradition... All the wars between France and Austria and then with Prussia / Germany are a consequence of this fact.
@@toutcramer2027 Except the actual Imperial title passed from Charlemagne to his son, and then onto Lothair of middle Francia. It then passed to Lious II of Italy before being passed around even more finally ending with Charles the Fat. The HRE is a new empire created by the Ottonians who took control over East Frankia, and is not a direct continuation of Charlemagne’s empire
USA: I have the most battles won in history!
UK: No I do!
France: Sup guys
only an American could possibly try to argue the first one lmao
@@Skelig nah they would argue that they won plenty given that they are a young country, and then us europeans would argue that battles won by going in countries way weaker than you just for oil are a bit less glorious. Not saying battlefields everywhere in europe were a good thing tho.
@@MrSupernova111 they do count. But most of the US victories in battle (800 or so, wich is insane for a country so young, placing them at number 3 behind the UK and France) were won against way way weaker opponents. That same critique apply to colonial victories from european countries too, but still, most of their battles were between each other in europe. France for example had to face multiple coalitions alone and won against most of them.
And thats an apparte since i am not sure avout the data, but werent the US much stronger than any of the tired countries in europe, including germany by the end of ww2 ? Did the US really send all of their might to vietnam ? (no disrespect for the brave US vets, but if it wasnt a secondary war against a weaker opponent, they would have had at least a few nukes, making open war impossible.)
@@popkhorne5372 "much stronger than Germany by end of WWII" - yeah well, that was the point of WWII, so yes, but that doesn't prove your point. Vietnam - even harder, and that shows what's wrong with casting war in a strong vs. weak frame. Viets and US had different motives, tools, cultural approaches to the war, uses of the terrain, weapons, strategies - that's how the US could believe they were winning until they suddenly had lost (one of the reasons there were no atom bombs, other being risks of escalation, moral damage, and having no clue where to drop them).
@@cboisvert2 what i mean is that the US never had to face an opponent stronger than them. The only reason they lost wars was because they didnt
send their full might : no more total war. Even though many soldiers were sent to vietnam, the US never used anything near their full capacity. Well the war of indépendance is the only evident exeption.
Napoleon Bonaparte's Illyrian Provinces
, despite being short-lived, kindled the area's patriotism. For the then Slovenian lands it was a massive deal, due to Slovenian becoming a schooling language for basic education, French was a higher education language. It left a mark in Slovenia and Slovenians never forgot Napoleon, having the biggest monument to him outside of France. In Croatia this sparked their national revival. The Illyrian Provinces
lasted not even 4 years.
CyrusBluebird I'm glad you spoke out about this brother 🙏🏻
Slovenia is a beautiful country with great people. Deserves more recognition.
Kings? Theyre all over the place over here.
There were 53 major conflicts in Europe. France will have been a belligerent in 49 of them, and the United Kingdom in 43.
Of the 185 battles that France has fought over the last 800 years, its armies will have won 132 of them, and lost 43, leaving only 10 indecisive battles
Thus giving the French military the record of victories in Europe and therefore in the world. France is the nation that has participated in the greatest number of war and battle throughout the history of Humanity.
- Over the last 800 years France has beaten more than 200 years against England, more than 150 years against the Germanic nations, more than 190 years against the Spanish / Portuguese, and against many other nations.
Very often these wars were waged against France, which was outnumbered by coalitions of several nations aimed at destroying it.
France, the warrior nation par excellence, the strategies deployed by these generals are still studying today, including the campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte.
On all the lands and continents France has shown the world what it was worth in the fight.
But France is also the one that colonized England in 1066, this Francized country for centuries to the point that 40% of English words are of French origin.
It is the Nation Daughter-eld of the church, because the first barbarian King of Europe to be converted is none other than Clovis I, King of the Franks, she is therefore the protector of the Christianity, even in her national borders we feel the destiny.
The one that dismantled the 900-year-old Holy Roman Empire. Allowing Germany to be born 65 years later.
That which allowed the independence of the USA fighting in America against the English.
The country of "Dynasties" Many European kings have French ancestries.
- Under Saint Louis France is the richest and most populous country in Europe as well as the most developed intellectually and artistically influencing all of Europe.
- The Amerindians nicknamed the King of France the Great Onontio "the greatest mountain of the earth" at the end of the seven-year war, overwhelmed then by the French defeat and their fate throw in the hands of the English who will exterminate them thereafter.
The one that dominated Europe for several centuries making her royal court the most popular and appreciated by the Kings of Europe.
The country of humanism and human rights and the first modern European democracy.
But France is something else:
France is the second nation in the world to have done the most invention and discovery.
- It was the 2nd largest colonial empire in the world, spanning all continents and oceans.
- It has the 1st largest global maritime area before the US in 2018
- It is the largest nation in the European Union in terms of area.
- First European Agricultural Power and 4th world.
- 5th world military power and 1st European.
- 5th World Economic Power.
- Permanent member of the UN alongside the USA, Russia, China and England.
- 2nd industrial and commercial power of Europe.
France is also the third country in the world to have manufactured the atomic bomb.
France is also a space power, the third nation to conquer space, the most important space budget of the European agency.
France is also famous for its gastronomy around the world.
France is also the first nation in terms of Art.1 world tourist destination far ahead of the others
French is today the 5th most spoken language in the world
- French is the 3rd language of business in the world
- French is the 4th language of the internet.
- French is the 4th language of the internet.
yay
I'd love if you typed that up but instead of posting it you discarded it
J'ai envie de dire: Bravo! C'est magnifiquement écrit en tout cas! You sum up it very well.
Le gars est déter
4th nation to develop and use the bomb
Manhattan Project - America and Britain developed jointly but deployed by America. 1945
RDS-1 - First Russian/Soviet deployment of a nuclear weapon. 1949
Hurricane - First British atomic detonation. 1952
Gerboise Bleue - First French bomb. 1960
Quite harsh on Napoleon III, he really improved France's economy.
The most underrated France's leader.
@@lecomtedemirabeau5548 certainly. He was also decent at war, diplomacy was alright, and his reforms and improvement ideas had so many good effects
@@fahoodie1852 sadly he was a leader at the same time as Bismark.
@STENNELER Jérémy everyone remembers sedan but no one remembered Solferino
@@fahoodie1852 Sebastopol too
Love how Britain is in basically every war involving France
Sitting behind its water protection.
@@augth and being obsessed 😂
Yes i think it's just the spirit of contradiction when one jump in the battle the other do too loool
And France is in every war involving Britain.
Love how Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill launched Operation Overlord, saving France, and then Charles De Gaulle goes out of his way to deny the UK from joining the European Coal and Steel Community many times because 'they suck'
History of the entire world (I guess): 19 minutes
History of France: 23 minutes
Conclusion: France makes up 121% of the world
I have the force I sense force I sense force of a window into the into it is a flash flood warning
"France has probably been the most influential country in shaping modern history.
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Greece - Am I a joke to you?
Pepe the Frog Nah that would probably be the Roman Empire (or if you don’t want to count them as a country the UK).
skysthe limitvideos Uh. Greece
skysthe limitvideos surely not the uk
The part on WW1 is an insult to the millions of french soldiers that died for their country
1.4 millions to precise !!
Same with WWII actually
copie de toto vito et sa ndinga's bande
@@ludov1308 who? The Vichy who betrayed the homeland or Free French who f***ed all the French territories?
@@rhiannejones3815 it's easy to say this now but I'd love to see what you'd have done in such a situation. You can't judge the past based on what you think you would've done today if this happened to you. Free French fought for their freedom and it was brave of them. As for those who collabored, who knows, maybe you would've been one of them. Or not. It's easy to degrade them while seating peacefully behind your screen but beware of such anachronisms.
So much royal history with revolutionary music playing
Yeah. But La Marseillaise was made my a royalist. And it was made when the le roi was still reigning.
This is pretty good. A lot of stereotypes tho (Robespierre never ruled France alone, and Napoleon III's reign is largely underestimated), but I understand you would spend hours if you had to explain and debunk them all.
@@oui2826 Are you French ?
Napoleon III was a good economist but a poor diplomat. He launched France into the industrial era but ultimately failed to keep peace and awnsered too quickly to provocation.
Napoleon was technically “Emperor of the French” not “the emperor of France”. It made a big difference, even if just a silly word swap
Yeah first emperor of the French and France first emperor
And last greatest
@@TropicalAsian-1000 Encore un pécno qui ne connait rien de Napoléon III... vraiment décevant
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Vraiment.... Napoleon the 3rd was Napoleon nephew he wasn’t as great as Napoleon he got his ass whooped many times. Au revior
@@TropicalAsian-1000 Oui donc tu ne connais rien de Napoléon III, de sa politique économique à la reconstruction de paris à la conquête mexicaine et la victoire de crimée et le début de l'alliance militaire anglo-francaise, et le retour à l'unité française..
Yeah if he emperor of France he’d have to wear a baguette on his head rather then a crown
15:26 Fun fact: THIS is where the political terms of "Left-" and "Right-Wing" came from.
yep and when napoleon was now in charge of france both the left and right were worried that sometimes hes lefty and sometimes hes righty
good stuff
"France cannot be France without greatness."
- Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle
Too much empty nationalism. Look at all the poverty ,misery and violence in most of the ex-colonal empire of France.
@@rafaelcalvo3516 Oh, you mean, like in former New France aka USA for example? Seriously dude, confirmation bias won't help you understand anything in the world. If you wanna compare apples, compare them to apples. You'll quickly see what's really fucking up the "former colonies" you're mentioning without realising they were from various countries that had either different or similar approaches. All results were the same regarding certain areas... Because it has nothing to do with colonisation, duh. This is not the factor at play here. And you won't make any progress unless you actually get the full picture.
Then France is no more...
@@Marhakon That's debatable. France is still top 20 out of the 198 countries that exist in the world. Could do more, sure, but being in the top 10% is certainly what you could call greatness. The problem of France isn't that it needs to be "Great again". It is that it needs to *stay great* and for that, it needs to clean up the political and cultural mess that threatens its greatness.
@@lucofparis4819 I wish I was French :(, I live in Canada least.
16:26 haha France against all and finally won !
Badass
Portugal is always just sitting in the corner. Minding its own business...😂😂
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Switzerland seems to just sit there, not do much but is in the middle of where all wars are.... and walk out of the war undamaged.
@@sophiemartin7778 Actually since the battle of Marignan swiss are neutral?
Well napolean tried to conquer Portugal but failed 3 times (with the help of England army mostly) - Portugal was always trying to mind their own business since the beginning of their history, even on the discoverment era we mostly just wanted to establish trade routes and spread knowledge (slave market was a consequence of the politics surrounding nobility) tho
@@sophiemartin7778 Untrue. What is now Swiss was a country heavily involved in european history for thousands of years. The neutrality politic of modern Swiss is in fact a consequence of being now reluctant to get involved too much.
@@axelcorreia6834 Untrue. Like other european countries Portugal was involved into politics, wars, and yes, religious affairs for quite a while. There was indeed a will to "live and let live", so to speak. But this was never truly achieved. Greetings from a half french, half Portuguese by the way 😉.
The French surrender jokes got old really fast(literally 70% of the comments). It’s pretty dumb considering the victories in the Napoleonic era and WWI.
Felipe Luengas And literally every part of French history excluding WWII...
Doesnt matter because you surrendered in ww2.
You're not funny anymore you underaged kid
WWI? was mostly won because of english blockades and germany faced depleting resources. At the end of WWI not one russian, belgian, english or french soldier set foot on german soil before they surrendered. France has a rich history on which they may be proud, but WWI is kinda a bad pick... even though I love the French history and see what a great nation it once was. During WWI i was disgusted with them that has a lot to do with the respect and moral compass between the leaders during different times of the same country.
Laurens Brand Sure, Germany was defeated more by the blockade starving out the country BUT a- the french did just as much as the british to put together that blockade (they patrolled the Mediterenean while the brits patrolled the North Sea) and b- the french practically held France alone from 1914 to 1917, against a stronger country that had invaded their industrial regions.
So if France had not held for all that time, the blockade wouldn't even have begun to had an effect.
I was adopted in 1959, and lived in The Bronx, NY, then, Brewster, NY and was born in Montreal. I found my biological family in 1999 at 40 years old Canada. Since I love history, I researched when I received a genealogical chart, of both my grandparents family, that dates back to Normandie in the 1600's. Now, I need to know why they left when they did for Canada, and with this video, I can produce a timeline....I love history, especially when it's my own! My father had come to Canada from Hungary during the Revolution in 1956. I have quite the heritage, and I want to be certain, my grandchildren are left with a book of both my backgrounds, biological and pure love and acceptance...
Being french myself, it really helped me to have a more objective view on my own country... thanks! :)
The Entire History of Russia would be great, considering how important their story is!
Je ne suis pas sur que la vision de l'histoire de France écrite par des peuples en guerre avec elle soit très objective non plus. Sa vidéo est pleine de raccourcis, d'omissions et d'analyses fortement contestables.
@@agoncalves5241 Certes! Mais c'est quand même intéressant d'avoir les 2 sons de cloche...
sa video est bourré d'erreurs et de raccourci..., il ne parle presque pas du moyen age alors que c'est notre apogée et les 2/3 de notre histoire....
The french foot is 1.066 english feet.
and the french meter is the universal unit
@@tommarch.4493 /woosh. 1066 is the year william the conqueror conquered england
@@eduarddv00 i know, but what he said is true too
french foot does nt exist anymore they invented metric system ( napoleon times )
Electroflame 618 I see what you did here France
Talk to any french and they will tell you that the first french King was Clovis in the sixth century...not Charlemagne and his successors in the ninth... Nothing to talk about: Just 3 centuries... (longer than the entire history of the us)but, hey ! Whose counting ??? ( no offense to US here Just pure algebra) lol 😁
Clovis (Chlodwig) as Charlemagne (Karl der Große) were kings of the franks, not french kings. They are part of the french History as they are part of the Germany History (could include even more western countries history)
@@aeralu4986 are you german ? if we want to find a date that make the fondation of germany is in east francia with otto the first in 842 ! so yes we share france and germany the same history at the beginning !! but i think you call france frankreich in german ! no ? the franks are the people who founded france !!
@@roms4154 I'm not german but it doesn't matter right? All I'm saying here is it doesn't make sense to consider Clovis and Charlemagne as french kings because we are talking about something that didn't even exist back then (or if you prefer, they were kings for what is called now France, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, switzerland, even a part of Denmark)
I have no idea how the History is
taught in France but if you consider franks as the only people who founded France, then you have a lack of knowledge of your own History.
Franks were Germanic speakers coming from the East and yes they were part of the foundation of many nowadays countries but not only France...
By the way, France has not been founded only by Franks but also by Celts, Greeks, Romans, Iberans, Vikings, Ligurians, Gauls and what french people are today is a mixt of all these origins and influences.
@@aeralu4986 look you make a confusion with the maker of france and the ethnicity of french people ! we french are a mixt between celts (gauls) , romans and germanics tribes "like franks , burgundy ,wisigoths" ! but the franks make francia and that is nowday called france ! belgium ,netherland , switzerland were made by HRE !! not the franks ! there is some franks DNA for sure but they didn't found kingdome of netherland , belgium, switzerland or germany ! those countries arrived as unified countries much more later than the reign of the franks in europe !! france as state is very old like england but not the others !! i don't understand how you can't get it !
PS: belgium was a part of france for centuries !
yea and im amazed by how short was the medieval France part on this video
2:08 Charles the VI aka time traveling Vladimir Putin
KUNGFUFUMAN Putins everywhere man. You just have to keep your eyes open to spot him.
Made my day
he was called the mad btw
Lmao
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After his victory at the Battle of Hastings, William "Guillaume le Conquérant" marched on London and received the city’s submission.
On Christmas Day of 1066, he was crowned the first Norman king of England, in Westminster Abbey, and the Anglo-Saxon phase of English history came to an end.
French became the language of the king’s court and gradually blended with the Anglo-Saxon tongue to give birth to modern English. (Illiterate like most nobles of his time, William spoke no English when he ascended the throne and failed to master it despite his efforts.
Thanks to the Norman invasion, French was spoken in England’s courts for centuries and completely transformed the English language, infusing it with new words.) William “ Guillaume le conquérant “ I proved an effective king of England, and the “Domesday Book,” a great census of the lands and people of England, was among his notable achievements.
Normans were Vikings, you are speaking English today not French you better get used to that.
@@ChrisCrossClash la civilisation est arrivée en Angleterre par la France et ça tu n’y peux rien. Aujourd’hui les normands sont français et parlent français, tu es mieux de t’y habituer. De plus, j’ignore comment écrire connard en anglais et ça ne me tente pas de l’apprendre.
The invasion was accepted and helped by the King of France.
At hastings, there were Frenchmen, bretons and French normans.
@@wertyuiopasd6281 You are speaking the language of my people from England, you still mad that English is the number one world de-facto language, and French isn't,your nation is turning into Muslim land as well.
What a historical video! I loved it! 🇫🇷💙
France has a history like nobody else. I just finished a book of Gustave Le Bon Psichology of revolution and I see that everything is connected. What is happening now in France it is just a reflections from past all these protests is in their blood from previous generations.
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well, the frankish empire was divided not because of its size, but because of the salic law that stated that each son had to inherit a part of their father possession...
Before saying that the France just surrender, remember:
-France has the most successfully army in Europe
-France is the country that most wined wars in the world
-France has the best army in Europe in now days
-They had a 100 years war (and technically wined)
-France X England (4X3 for France)
-France X Germany (7X4 for France)
-France X Russia (4X2 for France)
-United States, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and all Central America, just are independents because France
1-If you are just making a JOKE, no problem, this comment is for peoples who really think France has a bad army
2-Coalitions are individually wars
Nah, the only time France was tough was when Napoleon got to rule
Yeah they "wined" alot
#triggered
Hoss Cartwright nah, the only time they didn't wore badass was in the 16th and 17th centuries
Absolutely loved this video! You did a great job of illustrating how, for better, for worse, or both, France has been instrumental in shaping Europe. I would love to see you do a video on Poland, if possible!
But how can it be 23 minutes if the entire history of the world (I guess) is under 20???
Spencer Twiddy Because the French already think that the world revolves around them.
Guy Person XD
Guy Person we can make a religion out of this
no, don't
Aditya Sanjeev no, we Americans just don't care about the rest of the world.
There were 53 major conflicts in Europe. France has been a belligerent in 49 of them, and the UK in 43. Among the 185 battles that France has delivered over the last 800 years, her armies will have won 132 of them, and will have lost 43, leaving only 10 undecided battles, giving the French military the record of victories in Europe
This fucking guy gets it.
+Barn Van die Bos
Alan Parker, British flag, does that sound French to you ?
Barn Van die Bos We surrendered in one war, jackass.
Geneva Mapping yes the last war you fought and you lost
+Barn Van de Bos Don't speak about history when you don't know about history
Germans: Proclame themselves an empire in Versailles
French and allies: Take colonies from germans, control their country and make them pay for the war *_in Versailles_*
Can you do a video on Spanish and French colonization in North America? Everyone knows the British colonies, but my hometown in Wisconsin is 350 years old, and most people outside Canada & the Great Lakes/Upper Mississippi don't understand the fur trade era. And many Americans have a poor grasp on the full extent of Spanish colonization.
France actually won most of it's wars, it's batting average would be above 500. Yet it's only know for losing and surrender.
KeyWestGlenn because they surrendered in ww2 so all those previous "wins" dont matter
In that case the American loss in Vietnam is more important than their victory in 1945, there is also Iraq and Afghanistan where the US Army didn't really shine either.
Léo but no one cares about vietnam or afghanistan
US totally won WW2 pacific war, but it's Russia&England who won European.
Sorry for anticommies hollywood propaganda.
In the end germany as pretty much won nothing for the past 150 years ( including losing WWI and II ) and is now seeing its original population dominated by newcomers from the middle-east with a stunning spike in rapes and criminality, after losing everything to the rest of the world they are now being little bitches in their own country, truly a country of weaklings and failures.
The number of errors, intentionally or unintentionally, is incredible and always in favor of the Anglo-Saxon vision. Let's take for example the last century. It was not the arrival of the US soldiers that turned the tide of the war, they entered the battle when the balance of power had already tipped. The presence of the US soldiers made us win 1 years of war and therefore of preserved lives, which must be admitted. Then, he forgets the preponderant role economically, energetically, financially, politically (enormous pressure of the diplomats so that France does not build the Maginot line until the North Sea, or we can evoke the British role to prevent France from allying itself to the Soviet Union as soon as Germany was remilitarized, to prevent the influence of France in Western Europe and to allow the continuity of the German-British commercial exchanges) and industrially (surface military) of the United States and the United Kingdom on the recomposition of the German power and therefore the Nazis. And, it is better not to speak of the revolutions supposedly originating from the people, while they were organized by the bourgeoisie, and followed by urbanites affiliated with bourgeois affairs. And so the excuse of balance of power invented by the English makes me laugh, unless we call balance of power the important of the talented English diplomats who excelled in their fields. It is the only country, which however dominated the seas, and thus the maritime trade to their profits, never suffered a single coalition against it. The alliance between Saxon and Germanic cousins was always easy. The problem with videos or films is that they are now based on the Anglo-Saxon vision of history, whereas we have known for a long time that they have a mania for rewriting history for their own benefit. They only celebrate their victories, while in the Latin vision, we can also honor our defeats, the most example is camerone for the legion.
Youre not wrong but someone already made this comment, word for word.
Eh JP Morgan and Friends literally bankrolled France during WW1. You are right that the war turned before US troops entered the war but US aid was critical to France’s ability to fight the war as long as it did as ww1 was a giant battle of attrition.
Seriously what is it with you French? you just can't take it that you lost quite a lot of wars in your history can you?
@@ChrisCrossClash exactly. They're almost as bad as the Americans. Those jokers have never won a serious war without British help either, but you wouldn't know it to hear them brag
True. We Portuguese are ignored the same way😂. Their language being spoken everywhere does this.
Wow thank you so much for that detailed diagram of the 7 coalitions at 17:09, that will come in handy someday
Who else loves watching history in this accent
boris accent is better
that spanish accent is good bbbuuutttttttttttt life of boris accent is better
Oh God, yes!))) My favourite accent on TH-cam! )
What even is his accent? Northern Irish?
norik434 Scottish
Thanks for putting all these fragmented historical nuggets in a tightly knit context. Bravo! 🎉
15:31 It's the Declaration of Pillnitz (or »Pillnitzer Deklaration« in German), named after the place, Pillnitz, where it was signed. The -er is just a German suffix indicating origin, just like »Pilsener« means 'from Pilsen (Plzeň)'.
Love France from Romania...France was the only contry who helped us...I know that now days France didn't like us but my respect remain the same...God bless you
I wonder why you say we don't love you. You are a latin people. Maybe because a lot of roms (gypsies) go in France? I have a friend marry with a moldovian girl (yes not romanian but you are cousin) et they have french children. 🤗
"The whole history of the Roman Empire", from the foundation of Rome in -753 BC to the fall of the last Byzantine territory, the Principality of Theodoros in 1479 AD. this is the dream.
10:16
Just looking at that family tree makes me cringe
The more you look at it the more horrifying it is, really. Philip IV married his first cousin and then his niece...
AHHHH the Habsburg chin strikes again!
Makes my head hurt just looking at it.
And this is why incest is bad. You may cause several wars
Look at CPG grey british family tree on youtube man
Omfg... This was a blast. Would personally love more of these... Of course, Russia, Britain, Roman, Ottoman Empires, and the various dynasties that ruled China are wanted videos. Hope you cover these as fast as you possibly can.
Watching this ancient history documentary felt like a time machine experience. The accuracy and detail are superb!
13:52 "France was more than happy to help" might be a bit misleading. It took a lot of convincing by John Adams to get France, still a monarchy, to support a country that just revolted to form an elected government, however their naval support was critical in the revolutions success.
Great video, there is just one thing though. You said "the 10's of thousand americans became too much for Germany" referring to the surrender of the German Empire in WWI? Well this implies that the war was won thanks to the US army. But that's just all wrong, the american soliders were yes 10's of thousand to land in french ports, but very little of them saw combat, so few that the US army participation to the war was totally negligible. Actually the US army was desperately bad and had to be (re)trained and (re)equiped by the French and British armies. To conclude implying WW1 was won thanks to american reinforcement is wrong, because most men were still in ships, crossing the atlantic or in French ports and training camps when Germany surrendered. It certainly weighed in the decision to surrender, but that's it.
* France and Britain could not have won without the support of the American industry, but the US army did close to nothing in this war.
Don't be mad at me for telling the truth. The US army did a great thing for France in WWII, but they were useless in WWI. Although I realise that there was somes acts of bravery and a few succesful encounters, but it was just a case of too little too late.
@Antimatter But the Russians did win the war for europe at the end ..... do you see how much countries they pass threw to get to germany and them tribute of lost in that wars is the most impressive
The American military were also terrible at the start of WWII.
Yes, United States losses were only 117,000 deaths in WW1 and the US military forces were inept as French and British forces. The US quickly learned that French and British military equipment had to be replaced by US made equipment. I am thankful that my relative who was a WW1 veteran didn't have to face his German cousin in conflict. I am really amazed that the French and British just didn't tell the Americans to sit in their camps and play cards since their ability to defeat the Germans was going so well.
@@bronctobreakfast377 the Allies won the wwi thanks to Renault tanks
As someone from the UK, I am only glad we had such a worthy opponent 🇬🇧 ❤️ 🇫🇷
As someone from France, I wanna say you were a pain, we wanted to fight the Austrian what were you doing messing with us
Only Europe was a worthy opponent.
Thanks man. Can you do a Winners and Losers about languages? That would really cool. Keep doing the best videos.
Great video as usual. Of course you had to skip some important parts but you had to keep it short. I have just a regret is that sometimes this type of videos focus a bit too much about military history and not enough about the construction of some social specifics of a country. For example some events like la Commune or the Dreyfus Case had major consequences on the French social structure. It might be really interesting for outsiders to discover those things that are our defining heritage for us but overwhelmingly unknown for foreigners.
Just finished watching this ancient history documentary-such a well-researched and beautifully crafted video!
Palpatine would have a good relation with Louis XIV
Palpatine is basically based on Louis XIV
except Louis XIV never actually said "I'm the state", that's a myth and he understood good was above him. the protestant history is very different that what was explain. The lower administration were coming to him with list of fake conversations and he tried to push the "few" protestant left.
+Shruk Pls Based on Louis XIV ? Is that how they teach history in USA ? Palpatine and Louis have almost nothing in common
@@kakhagvelesiani3877 the way they teach history in America is "focus on american events, gloss over the genocides, mention Europe about once"
GY1415 ya not true.
I don't know why I expected an image of a blonde anime Saber-face girl from Fate when you mentioned Joan of Arc XDD
Thank you so much for this! French history has always been blurry for me. Thanks to this and a Wikipedia article, “Family Tree of French monarchs (simplified)” it’s a lot more clear now! And holy cow! That’s a lot of wars!!!
Wooow, this video was so amazing! If you do do more of these History videos, I'm sure people would love them - I certainly did.
👏👏👏👏 Thank you for this History lesson😊
17:01 *Emperor of the French
Of Europe*
It would’ve been cool if you covered the invasion of Gaul by the romans, instead of just the Franks onwards. The Gauls/Gallo-Romans are believed to make up the majority of French ancestry because the Franks were a ruling minority similar to the Normans in England. That’s why France still has a ton of Roman influence and speaks a Latin language
I commented exactly the same !
Latinization is key to understand France.
Hi everyone! So this is (by quite some bit) my longest video to date as I take on the insanely difficult task of trying to cram all of French history into one video. This obviously means missing out some stuff, and some oversimplifications where necessary, but I hope I've done their history justice, which really is truly fascinating.
This is something that could potentially become a new series, The Entire History of [Country] in X Minutes, depending on how this video goes. So I could really use your feedback and if that's something that you would like to see in future, please let me know.
Thanks for watching and subscribing!
Hi Chris! Amazing video once again! I love the 'History of __ in __ Minutes' concept!
Loved the video!
If I could recommend a country, I'd ask for the History of Brazil, Paraguay or Argentina next. They all have lesser known but very interesting histories, and I think it would be a less daunting task then doing another history video of a huge European country like Germany or Britain.
Y u put b oobs in the thumbnail?
I think it's a great idea, you should do the History of Greece or whatever else is in your mind
Reims isn’t pronounced “Reems” it’s pronounced: “Rance”
As a frenchie, it would have been great to have drawn the line to the 1968 events which lead to the downfall of De Gaulle, but yeah 1958 is good too
it's not 1968 events which costed De Gaulle fall, after the events of may 1968, there were general election (23 and 30 june 1968) and De Gaulle parti won the election by far : fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lections_l%C3%A9gislatives_fran%C3%A7aises_de_1968. After this election, De gaulle had a very comfortable majority of 350 deputies on 487. If you call that a defeat, you must take some treatment and call your Doctor or your psy.
De Gaulle left because of his ego after having lost for the regionalisation referendum of 1969. De Gaulle is the president which had what other after him hadn't : Honour. He lost a non important referendum, then he decided to leave power, which french people didn't want and was very affected.
After him, all other presidents had no Honour... Pompidou let UK entering EEC and being then the Troyan horse of the USA in it. Giscard had the affair of the diamonds and was Mitterand lost 2 general elections by far (especially in 1993) but refused to leave and named 2 prime ministres from his opponents. Chirac lost a general election and do the same, he even lost the referendum on the european constitution but stayed in power as if nothing happened. Sarkozy imposed the european constitution that french people had refused 3 years before. Hollande was a joke and Macron is an opportunist banker at the orders of the globalists.
Funny fact, Mitterrand, the strongest opponent to De Gaulle did in 1981 the regionalisation that Mitterrand had asked french people to refuse in 1969...
You mean when France became garbage?
13:20 “Although some minor skirmishes happened in North America between the French and British colonies...”
Where I come from, those were HUGE events. Fort Duquesne, and later Fort Pitt, held a major strategic position at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers, in what is now Pittsburgh. In fact, the entire American theater of the war started with a dispute over control of the area. They had a major impact on the history of this area.
I've been taking a course on the French Revolution, and I've got the exam next week, so this was actually quite helpful!
Here's a good summary for your exam :
1) guillotine
2) guillotine
3) guillotine.
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Excellent video. I didn't know it was possible to teach good history in so short a time. Well done and thanks for posting.
you're an absolute and fascinating riot of information ! do everything ! ( I'm not in agreement with everything thing said , as so much is left out , but you're witty and entertaining and full of tidbits of fun , and historical facts ! actually I'm amazed at how much you're able to squeeze into such a short span of time , condensing over a thousand years of story into twenty minutes is a feat ! really enjoyed it , do more !
That one person that is immortal and is French: are you ever going to stop having wars
No we love wars 😍
You: sorry can’t come to the party, there’s a family fight.
Europe: bro… I’ll show you a family fight
You should do this with more countries
Louis XVI reigned for 72 years, the longest reign in Europe’s history.
Queen Elizabeth: *Hold my Tea*
thats only 67 years for Elizbeth II
it was Louis XIV and not Louis XVI
so much that by the end, the country was ruined. Voltaire writes: "so long that the end makes us forget the beginning"
Louis XIV monsieur 😉
Guillotine that bitch
Oups... Sorry I'm French 🙂
20:56 WTF ? tens of thousands of american change nothing about french victory ... review your books honestly (you played too much at Battlefield 1 maybe ...)
Russians have done a pretty big part of this job.. But you'r soldiers haven't be useless and this help was really appreciate
@@julienbouet2066 What are you talking about ? Russians surrendered to Germany. You confuse WW1 and WW2 I guess.
@@teslaasmr9375 No he's right, the eastern front was devastating for both Russia and Germany ad that's not because one belligerant "surrenders" that it has done nothing in the war
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I love how the 7 coalitions against the French, the English were in involved in every single one of them. It’s like if anyone was going to take them they wanted it to be them, some could say that could almost loving! 🤣
Yes, English, but mostly English gold and money, not their soldiers... in proportion , English troops did only few (and most of the soldiers of Britain were mercenaries or from colonies). Prussia, Austria, Russia, Spain did more than English.
@@jpc7118 Mate, half the coalitions WOULDNT EVEN EXIST with British influence. Not to mention the Royal Navy crippled the french navy AND won at waterloo.
@@cw19280 Right for the Navy, wrong for waterloo... if ti wasn't for Purussian arrivals, English would have lost a tactical battle. On land, British troops didn't bring much in all the coalitions. Even at Waterloo, most british crown troops were Hanovrians and Hessen then germans soldiers. The british land army has always been inferior one to one to french and prussian... the frnehc and indian wars needed 7 years of fights in canada, when british were outnumbering the French by 50 to 1 in colons and 20 to 1 in soldiers...
British involved and paid all the coalitions for only few british blood. The war was won on the ground by Russians + Prussians + Austrians+ Spanish + Sweden + many other allies... the british troops were only few.
BTW Waterloo even if Blucher hadn't arrived in time, it would have been a tactical minor victory for the French. Russians and austrians armies were arriving and were outnumbering an exhausted France.
The Napoleonic war should truly be called the british imperial wars. It's Britiain which wished the wars. At the exception of the Russian campaign, France never attacked first, but reacted to declarations of war. Napoleon did the Amiens and Lunéville treaty to obtain a definitive peace. Britian worked in the dark to obtain a new coalition against France in 1802-1803.
Le nombre d'erreur, volontairement ou involontairement, est incroyable et toujours au profit de la vision anglo-saxonne. Prenons par exemple le dernier siècle. Ce n'est aucunement la venue des soldats des états-unis qui le tournant de la guerre, ils sont entrés dans la bataille lorsque la balance de puissance avait déjà basculé. La présence des soldats des USA a fait gagner 1 ans de guerre et donc de vies préservées ce qui faut avouer. Ensuite, il oublie le rôle prépondérant économiquement, énergiquement, financièrement, politiquement (pression énorme des diplomates pour que la france ne construisent pas la ligne Maginot jusqu'en mer du nord, ou on peut évoquer du rôle britannique pour empêcher la france de s'allier au soviet dès la remilitarisation de l'allemagne pour empêcher l'influence de la france en europe occidentale et de permettre la continuité des échanges commerciaux germano britanique) et industriellement (militaire maritime de surface) des états unis et du royaume unis sur la recomposition de la puissance allemande et donc nazis. Et, il ne vaut mieux parler des révolutions soi-disant provenant du peuple, alors qu'elles étaient organisées par les bourgeois, et suivit par des urbains affiliés aux affaires bourgeoises. Et alors l'excuse de balance de pouvoir inventée par les anglais me fait bien rire, à moins d'appeler balance de pouvoir,l'importante des talentueux diplomates anglais qui excellaient dans leurs domaines. C'est le seul pays, qui pourtant dominait les mers, et donc le commerce maritime à leurs profits, n'a jamais subit une seule coalition contre elle. L'alliance entre cousin saxon et germanique a toujours été facile. Le problème des vidéos ou films sont dorénavant basés sur la vision anglo-saxonne de l'histoire alors qu'on le sait depuis fort longtemps, ils ont la manie de réécrivent l'histoire à leurs profits. Ils ne fêtent que leurs victoires, alors que par exemple dans la vision latine, nous pouvons aussi faire honneurs à nos défaites, le plus exemple est camerone pour la légion.
Cet anti-americanisme de base est franchement assez pathetique.
Bien joué compratiote.
C est grâce à la France que les bouffeur de burgers ont pu avoir leur indépendance Puis ils ont perdu la guerre de Vietnam , et maintenant leurs soldats sont trop gras pour se battre . Maintenant ils sont très bons a tirer sur des étudiants sans défense
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Moondie
Merci pour cette excellente analyse! Les alliés naturels étaient toujours la France et l'Allemagne! Cela a toujours été entravé par l'aristocratie européenne dont les intérêts ont toujours été personnels!
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Many thanks ! I’m french and I try to improve my English while watching your video ahah that’s really ethnocentric...
Interesting, I was hoping that you would have covered some of French history in south east Asia. I have read some interesting books on Vietnam and growing up while the US stupidly followed all of France’s mistakes. Of course we also failed to read the history of Afghanistan, when we didn’t look at 3 different wars with Britain (some of my maternal and paternal relatives died for “crown and country”) and we didn’t learn from history in that case either. But it was an interesting and educational video. Not much about the auld alliance, that would have also been interesting. Having been to Scotland 12 times to visit my family, I don’t have any difficulty with your mild accent ( Edinburgh? Low lands?) but I’m curious how many Americans can understand you?
I know people love to make surrender jokes but think about it, we've been there since the treaty of Verdun in 843, surrounded by the greatest european powers for more than a thousand years, and we're still there. There's no other country in Europe who waged and won more battles than us.
It's easy to call the 300 000 french soldiers who died during WWII cowards while sitting in front of your computer eating junk food. But the truth is, war is no laughing matter and we can't comprehend it unless we've been on the battlefield ourselves.
Wow . France history so complicated. you did well explaining in chronological order to make other people understand. Good Job
Napoleon: I'm back, y'all ready for round 2!
French Army: ok.
*Speech 100*
Normie
2:45 Does anybody else think Philip the Good looks like Frollo from Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame?
Well done. This was easy to follow, which is all I can ask of a history video.
Interesting history, thanks for video! Love France from Ukraine! We started our diplomatic Ukrainian-French relations since 838 and also, when the Ukrainian duchess and French queen Anna Yaroslavna (Anna de Kyїv) (1024-1075) came to Paris.
The imperial style was Emperor of the French, not Emperor of France.
Yes, you're right my twin!
1:24 I love how he edited the 'Hundred Years' War' to 'Hundred and sixteen Years' Wars' lol
France’s history is one of the most bloodiest in the world.
"Headed by Maximilien Robespierre." I think you meant *Beheaded*
I would be very interested in seeing a video on the crisis of 1958 and how DeGaulle came back to power and how the modern 5th republic was established.
Napoleon era is epic 🔥🔥
Yup
Wow that dude saying it was only an armistice for 20 years really WAS right
I love the part "let them eat the cake"! best quote ever!
Hi Wonderwhy, i'm a french subscriber :)
I really love history so i was very excited when i saw this video. And she is very good and complete, you really well understand our long and complex history (19 century is a complete mess).
NOW, TIME FOR THE CRITIC (i'm sorry, i still love your video). I think you should (maybe) have talk about Vercingétorix and Gaull, but most certainly you should have talked about Clovis and his baptism (sometimes consider has the birth of France, it depends).
Maybe that's because i'm stupid but i found the moment about Charlemagne very unclear. Because you talk of the end of the carolingian empire BEFORE Charlemagne, it looks like he only ruled on western Francia, and the destruction of his empire is most due to a battle of inheritance with his heirs than the height of the empire.
After that i have little to say, you maybe should have more talk about the war of 1870 (and so the commune of France) because it looks like Napoleon III lost many wars against Germany.
And talk about Charles De Gaulles during WW2 to understand why he arrives to the power in 1958.
That's all folks !
You don't have to apologise! I always welcome constructive criticism, so thanks you for that. You make some good points and I appreciate that. Merci!
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Napoleon III only had one war against Germany. Before that France under his leadership won Crimean War and defeated Austrians in 1859 gaining Savoy and Nice
The Carolingian empire was nog dividend because of the lack of communication but by the law that each son must inherate a part of the empire. And in this case it was divided between Lothaire Charles the Bald and Louis the German
Wonderful talk
I love European history, so insightful.
The separation of the Frankish Empire has nothing to do with communication issues, it has to do with German inheritance laws.
*Frankish inheritance laws
Germanic *
Frankish* no such thing as "german"
Wow, you compressed the most interesting part of French history into the first minute and thirty-five seconds.
Great video, very accurate.
One small nitpick - about the second empire. It lasted 18 years, longer than the first. While military endeavours were indeed catastrophic, the economic and social changes of France were significant. Napoleon III brought France into the industrial age, and oversaw the renovation of Paris with the Baron Haussmann, leading to Paris as a city as it is known today.
0:10 That's wrong. There were Gauls still living there when the Franks invaded.
I recommend this ancient history documentary to anyone who loves exploring the mysteries of ancient civilizations.
*Jokes about waiting for 2 years now for the next video*
Xyphn why are there two Congo’s was uploaded like 2 months ago