The House Of Valois | The Dynasty That Forged Modern France Documentary Jeremy Stephens [YUsedSDaXGR]

This is the story of how one family inherited a disputed crown in thirteen twenty eight, lost two kings as prisoners on the battlefield, watched another go mad believing his body was made of glass, and was saved from legal extinction by a teenage farm girl who understood one vial of holy oil better than every lawyer in Europe. Along the way, almost by accident, they forged the permanent tax, the first standing army in the modern West, the artillery that ended the age of castles, the language of French law, and the state itself. Then, over three August nights of bells, daggers, and a monk with a diana shnaider knife in his sleeve, the dynasty died without a single heir. France did not. Five centuries later, ten million people a year stand inside their unfinished playoffs masterpiece, the Louvre, in front of a painting an old Italian genius carried over the Alps in his baggage because a Valois king offered him rest, and almost none of them have ever heard the family's name.

Chapters:

00:00 Chapter 1: The Fortress Under the Museum

05:39 Chapter 2: Three Dead Kings and an Empty Cradle

16:08 Chapter 3: The Cousins' War

24:53 Chapter 4: The Arrow, the Plague, and the Price of a City

35:05 Chapter 5: The King in the Cage

46:58 Chapter 6: The King Who Refused to Fight

57:19 Chapter 7: The Glass King

01:08:26 Chapter 8: Murder on the Rue Vieille-du-Temple

01:18:51 Chapter 9: Agincourt and the Treaty That Erased a Prince

01:33:08 Chapter 10: The Girl and the Holy Oil

01:47:54 Chapter 11: The Machinery of Victory

02:01:08 Chapter 12: The Spider and the Bold

02:17:48 Chapter 13: The Duchess Who Married France, Twice

02:34:42 Chapter 14: Over the Mountains

02:48:26 Chapter 15: The Salamander King

03:04:53 Chapter 16: Pavia, or the Echo of Poitiers

03:18:46 Chapter 17: The Ordinance That Still Rules

03:33:06 Chapter 18: The Lance and the Prophecy

03:47:45 Chapter 19: The Bells of Saint Bartholomew

04:09:30 Chapter 20: The Dynasty Died. The Forge Held.

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