Current Events > I am in love with the Versailles series on Netflix.

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Highly recommend to anyone who likes history. The series focuses on Louis XIV's building of Versailles and consolidation of power. Usually when you think Versailles, you think of Louis XVI and the revolution, so this was an interesting take on a period that doesn't get much coverage.

Everything that happens is either factual, or rooted in rumors from the time period. I keep thinking "there is zero chance that happened", then fact check and find out it did lol.

Does a great job showing the hedonistic temple of sin that Versailles was, and how the nobility was exempt from the harsh moral standards the church subjected the peasants to.

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Maybe just everyone in France in that era sucked then. All I know is when I learned about the Revolution I felt sympathy for the nobles and royals. The peasents murdered children. Fuck em

But I might watch h this. I liked Tudors and Borgia

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But I might watch h this. I liked Tudors and Borgia

If you liked those, then you will love this.

I also find the treatment of homosexuality in the show to be very interesting historically. This was during a time when peasants were burned at the stake for being gay, but homosexuality was rampant in Versailles. The king's brother was openly gay and would routinely show up to parties wearing women's clothing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_I,_Duke_of_Orl%C3%A9ans#Sexuality