La Vérité Cachée sur la Vie des Enfants à Versailles (1680)

Behind the gilded cradles and silken gowns, childhood at Versailles concealed a nightmarish reality. Under the reign of Louis XIV, surviving to adulthood was a miracle, even for the king's children. In this moving documentary, discover the true lives of children at court: newborns swaddled and immobilized like mummies, doctors who performed bloodletting on babies, nonexistent hygiene, and arranged marriages from a very young age. Whether they were crown princes or the children of servants shivering in the attics, none were safe from the epidemics and cruelty of the era. Why was the most beautiful palace in the world a death trap for the youngest children? Subscribe for more historical secrets, and tell us in the comments: which ordeal suffered by these children shocks you the most? ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ⏱️ CHAPTERS: 00:00 — The Hidden Nightmare of the Children of Versailles 01:00 — Being Born in Public: A Matter of State 02:26 — The Hell of Childbirth in the 17th Century 03:44 — The Swaddle: Bound Like Mummies 05:01 — Wet Nurses and the Cruel Separation 06:19 — Hygiene, Filth, and Deadly Infections 07:32 — Bloodletting and Purging: The Medicine That Killed Babies 08:47 — Smallpox: The Epidemic That Ravaged Cradles 10:03 — The Curse of the Sun King (the death of his (heirs) 11:19 — A childhood stolen by strict etiquette 12:43 — The forgotten children of Versailles' servants 14:01 — Deformed bones and bruised bodies beneath the silk 15:06 — Married at 7: growing up far too fast 16:21 — Would you have survived in their place? 17:24 — The final mirror: honoring the memory of the most vulnerable ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 🎵 MUSIC AND COPYRIGHT: All music is from the YouTube Audio Library. Artists: Esther Abrami, Doug Maxwell, Aakash Gandhi, Biz Baz Studio, Hanu Dixit, Wayne Jones, Ethan Meixsell, Kevin MacLeod. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license for the use of the tracks "Descent" and "Heartbreaking" (artist: Kevin MacLeod): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: http://incompetech.com/ #History #Versailles #Documentary #Children #SecretsOfHistory #17thCentury #LouisXIV