The Real-Life Couple That Inspired Beauty and the Beast
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- It’s a tale as old as time - or, at least as old as the 1500s. But the real couple that inspired Beauty and the Beast lived a tragic life. The real life Beauty and the Beast were Catherine and Petrus Gonsalvus, and they were treated like freaks of nature by Europe’s kings and queens. Although the tale of Petrus and Catherine Gonsalvus isn't the single inspiration of the tale - it has much deeper folkloric roots than that - its optics match those of the fictional couple.
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Its funny how these Kings and Queens can be called noble When their behavior was anything but noble.
I know, look at bullies, they put themselves so high on a pedestal that they think they can treat others less than. It has to be a form of narcissistic behavior.
Everyone with power is corrupted eventually. Most that seek power are corrupted from the start. Only a few come to power as good men and women, and they make great changes typically, but then it all goes down the drain in the decades following their reign.
@@Kryynism nicely put. I agree with your statement.
It was ignorance more than anything else....no one not even low born people wold have seen him as human.
Right ✅️
No surprise that the real beast was society.
It somehow always seems to be.
As always*
A statement I thoroughly agree with lol
🙌🏽Truth!
society…
I never ceased to be horrified at how inhuman we manage to be.
🤣🤣🤣
I can understand way back then people didn't know about genetic disorders or even basic hygiene.
well its the 1500s they werent educated as we are now
Before anybody even had something to say about this story🤔👉 racism still exists to this day so how can a lot of y'all think it's okay for whites to kill blacks but try to justify what they're doing to this white man back in the day please make it make sense
@MrDucky17 Excuses Excuses. Evil is evil, no matter how many excuses you try to justify it with.
You sound just like those who justify the Jewish Holocaust saying that the Nazis were just following orders. It's not their fault, right? SMH
I'm convinced Catherine loved him. You don't make 7 children with a man you loathe unless you're a queen. From the story, it seems Petrus was extremely intelligent and learned to deal with the cruelty fairly well, which demonstrates his character. I've personally fallen in love with someone who I didn't initially find very attractive so I know it's possible lol. Their story would make a great film, besides the fairy tale. :)
No couple stays married 40 years without having a solid bond, an I hope some joy. Loosing their children must have been very sad indeed.
@@Imeraldgyrl I get your sentiment, but divorce was very difficult back then. And I imagine it would be impossible if the Queen had arranged your marriage.
Of course you can love someone regardless of their looks. Ones you get to know someone, their looks changes. The most beautiful person can become hideous, and vice versa.
But I don't think women had much to say about how much sex they wanted to have with their husbands in the 1500's.
It would be a depressing film.
@Barbie Blues Wow that's a great question, I have been seeing those Mexicans for the last 40 years from the History and discovery channels, I think two were twins they whole family had it for generations to different degree's and one of them married a beautiful Mexican woman I couldn't believe it, one why marry a dog man? BUT knowing it's pretty much a huge change the kids will have it too is a scary concept.
The portrait with the hand on the shoulder says it all. She loves and trusts him but she is not used to being treated so inhumanly yet still holding on to dignity, and the look in his eyes seems all knowing and very self aware
No, it probably just means the portrait painter told her to put her hand on his shoulder. She may have still liked her husband, but the hand on the shoulder is probably not a deep gesture when you're sitting for a portrait. I wouldn't read too much into it.
@@Violetbunnyfish 😂😂😂😂😂
@@Violetbunnyfish I see it as her being protective of him and disgusted by having their portraits done yet again
You're correct. It's not like modern day photos. The smallest details in paintings held a lot of meaning.
@@Violetbunnyfish BINGO. It's fascinating to see people romanticize this couple and talk about them in modern terms. The portrait wasn't even FOR them.
I’ve heard of the real life story of beauty and the beast before and it’s just as heartbreaking as I remember. I imagine them raising and loving their children only to have four of them taken from them and given away to strangers. I think about how sad and scared those kids must have been. I hope they some how did ok in life. I like to think Petrus and Catherine did love each other. Since Petrus was very smart and educated he probably would come off as charming. Also he was probably happy to have a companion and possibly was very kind to Catherine because of it. But it’s just something I like to think.
The fact that he persevered both despite and because of his challenges would also help. Think about it, what would you actually think of a man like Petrus where it's very obvious he still pushes forward in life despite how others treat him?
I think the chances are extremely high that Petrus was a wonderful man. The fact that Catherine was so young, and had no choice in the marriage? I think she would have had to grow up a lot, but all the extra hardships of her life, like having her children literally sold as pets. I hope they were at least kind to each other.
I think it would be very understandable if she resented him, but just more tragic. Why do humans so often treat differences so inhumanely.
@@tcrpgfan ccc, vcvcvvvvvvvv
Besides, all he had to do was, well... Shave. There's a man under the fur, after all.
Beauty and the beast is just about some weird girl who fell in love with a furry. #gastonisepic
This video actually made me sad for Catherine, Perry’s and the children. Just because they were different, they were mocked and passed around to Royal Courts. They were treated like animals and who knows what happened to the children. I really don’t see this as Beauty and the Beast but Catharine Medici was a cruel woman anyway.
@blue yes they were
I'm m
Catherine was a weirdo. She was horrible to her youngest daughter too. Didn't care if she died.
The medieval era for you. Not that it's really been much better.
@blue guess that’s why the Pazzis killed them
Catherine, the maid, was clearly one amazing lady. She was obviously highly intelligent and also had an enormous heart. And it must have been so hard for her to keep up with all the fake niceties expected of her when she could see right through all the elite, classist bullshit. And Petrus, man I don't have words to express how sorry I am that he was treated the way he was. He's a legend in my opinion, far moreso than any of the "Royals" of his time.
At the very least we still remember him while I only seconds after finishing the video already forgot about any of the nobles mentioned. Their deaths might have been recorded but no one could care less.
The more I find out about Royals , including our modern day morons, the more I see how they are nothing without people to rule over...absolutely nothing. Zero...I agree with everything you said...can you imagine the lack of love he got , how cruel for any child to have that taken from them...I was so sad today and this just put me over the curb...
yes she was
No beast is more maliciously cruel than human beings.
Editorial note: "More" does not preclude "as"!
Who hurt you?
@@abdielrainbowhellsangel2256 They r true tho
@@ifykyk679 I understand the sentiment but its kinda naive. Life isnt that simplistic.
Saying things with 'authority' doesnt make it true just because it sounds nice.
*maybe because humans have the capacity to not only be aware of being cruel but in some cases to actually enjoy the process of seeing others in pain*
@@scottmantooth8785 Fair enough.
How sad and tragic. I can't imagine that mother's pain when her children were taken from her and sold.
literally how i feel about american chattel slavery
@a clout token Exactly! I was about to say imagine how the slaves felt.
But wait, nobody cares about that, right? SMMFH
The same for black women during slavery when their children were sold never to be seen again....nothing compared to this
@@mitzithompson6585 Same for any slave at any time get it right
@@fygliawicked7325 Really, American slavery lasted for centuries. Why don't my people get the respect as others?
If she lived with him for 40 years and had seven children, there had to be some type of love.
Errr, well, sexual relations were considered a "wife's duty" throughout most of history, too, though, so it was expected of her. It didn't necessarily mean she loved him. I mean, maybe she did, but remember it was an arranged marriage. Perhaps she liked him, though, whether it was love or not.
Sadly not necessarily but hopefully
Why couldn't she?
@@tsarina24honolulu87 exactly. What is wrong with people? Of course she could have and probably DID love him!!
Honestly, I think it's far MORE likely that she was in love and happy GIVEN their unfortunate circumstances: strangely, they probably improved her chances of being treated well. Given his "disadvantages", physically, he'd likely have felt more of a need to value her and actually foster a good relationship - I imagine the society surrounding them would've been quite happy to see the relationship devolve into drama and dysfunction from his "wild man" nature or whatever: the pressure was likely on for him to act nobler than the nobles, actually prove his worth to her.
It must have been so hard watching their children be carted off like he was. He might have had parents who were grieved to have him taken away as well.
Gotta wonder if it made him angry or if he was so conditioned to his life by that point that he just accepted it 😪
Slavery in a gilded cage
His parents locked him in a cage and fed him raw meat.
@@MJ-gm7km I thought that was what his kidnappers did. Anyway, I bet he got to eat his veggies when he was 10 yrs old learning languages and he was glad. Yummy veggies.
Hypertrichosis has been depicted in multiple films. Fur, the Lion Woman and The Adventures of Wolf Boy. This true story is extremely sad and only reflects poorly on the society that perpetuated the cruelty on these unique individuals.
Hugs to you Lara 🌻🥰😘
It is an evil and vile condition...also more common nowadays particularly among women which is tragic even more as women should be less hairy. Poor family. There are also far too many examples of people born with a physical anomaly later killing themselves. No person should be made to feel lesser than..
Dont forget also in movies like Teen wolf with Michael J Fox too
Since he had hypertrichosis did his own parents have it or was he just the only one that looked like a werewolf?
This Queen made Guston look like a Gentlemen.
I know, right!?
Ya I was not prepared
Money can't buy class... or kindness.
😁😂😂
I agree. She's too evil
It’s so terrible that they didn’t treat him like a human being like he was an animal
@ Theresa His wife had the same faith, she got thrown into it by the queen, remember?
@@wolfsongmoondancer1428 Yeah that’s true
You don't have to treat animals with brutality if you have even a bit of empathy
@@ladywarriorchildgodjesus6835 🤔😏
Maybe there will be a miracle and someone will treat me like a human being today
It is upsetting that they were treated like that.
Yes, it is. Welcome to the human species.
It's strange how even with hair on his face, he still seems fairly attractive. I wonder if really all people back then would instantly judge based on hair being on the face or if they would at times look beyond the hair to see the face of the man they were speaking to
I agree that he seemed attractive. I wonder if he could have shaved his face. At least the upper half. Not trying to make light of his situation. Just wondering.
@@t.y.5565 I wondered the same thing. Maybe they would have lost interest in him and his family and they could have had more normal lives. I wonder why he didn't try that.
@@NikkiC777 if he's anything like me, I need to shave every other day if I wanna stay smooth
It would be such a chore... plus, how easy was it to shave back then? They'd have to do the same to their 4 kids... It would be hard to hide
I do agree that he seemed attractive. And shoot, he was attractive enough to have 7 kids with (I don't just mean physically attractive). Hopefully they found happiness in their company together
he got that nice tall nose and was pretty fit
@@t.y.5565 He would have had to shave all the time, which even today could be pretty difficult and would probably result in breakouts and scarring.
Poor Petrus. I am sure he longed for love as a child and as an adult.
I hope that Catherine and Petrus found some happiness together in spite of being treated so horribly. If they'd lived in the 1800s they would've been part of PT Barnum's freak show.
If that were the case they would have better treatment, some privacy and their own spending money. Since people would have come to see them perform they would have stayed in one location and have kept their children.
At least they would have had a choice. Even if you figure that it may have been challenging to find other employment.
True and historical Barnum was not as sympathetic being as in The Greatest Showman. Elephants are not real but CGI for a reason if you want to know it watch "Water For An Elephant".
@@karolinakuc4783
"Water for Elephants" has nothing to do with Mr.Barnum. It is an unrelated story set in a circus.
The Elephant "Rosie" was played by a very real elephant named Tai, who had an extensive filmography before her retirement. There was no abuse of Tai, which was thoroughly investigated and proven untrue. The abuse of "Rosie" was implied, but not shown and the elephant's cries were created by the sound department ie: the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.
Mr.Barnum owned Jumbo, an elephant who was tragically killed by a train.
@@karolinakuc4783Barnum wasn't a great guy, but he's actually on the record showing sympathy for someone with this condition.
She and her baby were horribly exploited by her husband, even after their death. Barnum called her husband "the true monster" for what he did.
Oh my God, those poor people! I am continuously shocked by how horrible we human beings treat each other. Our cruelty knows no limits. What a sad story.
And then there’s people in history using the atrocities committed by others to justify their own. It’s pretty baffling how human beings are capable of rationalising such cruelty.
This makes me wonder who the actual beasts are...
There’s that song in the Prologue of “The Hunchback of Norte Dame” “Who is the Monster and who is the Man?”
That you wonder makes you one of the beasts.
@@jgallardo7344 Thats a really good choice. Fits it perfectly
Catherine’s hand on his shoulder demonstrated she had his back. The look on her face was a look acknowledging the bs they were going through. She knew why they were painting their portrait but she had to go along with it for survival.
Disney didn’t “change that ending”, the film - along with numerous other versions - is based on the fairytale by Charles Perrault.
Right…. The fairy tale is a completely different story. The only similarity is that he had hair and she was pretty
Maybe he got the idea for the fairy tale from the real-life story?
Close, but not quite. The best known version of Beauty and The Beast that is often used as source material by the cinema industry was written by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont back in 1756, which in turn was an abridged version of Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve's one published back in 1740.
It has to be inspired by some real events.
@@lwgoinghome exactly
The hand on the shoulder, I think, and the stare scanning ahead, indicates protectiveness of her husband.
Most fascinating episode yet. Do more episodes that Disney movies based off of real life people like this. I genuinely thought that the story was simply made up. I hope the souls of Catherine, petrus, and all of their children are at peace
Many Disney movies are based on Grim fairytales and other folklore
I saw a little boy, probably around 4 years of age, who had hypertrichosis when I was attending a yearly pumpkin festival a couple of years ago in a town called Collector here in New South Wales. I couldn't remember the name of the condition off the top of my head at the time, but thanks to videos like this one I was aware it's a rare genetic condition. Although he will still undoubtedly face some challenges, I'm so glad that he is growing up in a more knowledgeable world. He seemed like such a sweet little boy, he was full of giggles and holding his mummy's hand ❤️
Thank goodness he has love.
That is absolutely tragic. I feel so sorry for him that he was highly intelligent yet was treated in this inhuman way. His wife must’ve went through enormous grief with how her husband was treated and her children taken away from her treated like a wild animal. What cruelty. As soon as I heard Catherine Medici’s name, I knew things were going to get bad.
Continues to prove himself as human as anyone else, but too excess hair made the world think him monstrous.
I guess empathy is a superpower.
My wife and I have also set the stage for a Beauty and the Beast story.....but I still love her, even with all that hair and myself as pretty as I am
Is that her in the photo? She's prettier than you say, mate.
Great sense of humor 👏 😂😊
😂😂😂
Seriously needed that for a good laugh.
This is the most dad joke I’ve ever heard
If nothing else I think their relationship must have been pretty pragmatic, it’s like they got stuck in the same boat, exiled to some freak show island. Whatever status or respectability Catherine the maid had before marrying Petrus was probably lost, but it was the queens orders so literally no getting out of it. She had to accept her fate gracefully and try to meet the expectations thrown at her to survive.
His story is so sad, and I feel so bad for him and for his family, no one deserves to be treated like that ever, sometimes I think humanity should simply disappear...
Despite that, it was a great video very informative. Greetings from Brazil ❤❤
Even sad by our current standards, they probably had a better life than most people at the time, especially given their situation. Most freaks would get killed soon after birth.
Stop Humanity!
This story has some problems. If Petrus was not allowed last rites because he was not considered human, then how did the priest perform the marriage, which is also a sacrament? Wouldn't the church have considered this Bestiality? Obviously, the authorities did consider Petrus a man. Otherwise, the marriage would have been null and void.
Hypocrisy and cherry picking then and now
The Queen wanted the marriage and when he died in a small village in Italy were he was an outcast🤷🏽♀️ unfortunately it wasn’t uncommon
The Catholic Church of this time was still pretty decentralized, with local bishops having a lot of individual autonomy in how they ran their dioceses. The pope only got involved if someone powerful appealed a local bishop's decision, like Katherine of Aragon fighting to keep her marriage to Henry VIII from being annulled by the Archbishop of Canterbury. If Katherine had been willing to negotiate with Henry, the Anglican Church would never have come to exist.
So one priest viewed Petrus as human enough to marry, but another one years later didn't see him as worthy of Last Rites. That's really not that unheard of in a time without modern electronic communication. As commoners of low status, Catherine and Petrus didn't have the power to protest even if they'd had the time. Plus, it's always possible that Petrus's death was too sudden for him to receive Last Rites in any event.
BTW, LaWiki says that Petrus was at the court of Margaret of Parma in the Netherlands when he got married, so it's not clear how Catherine de Medici could have been directly involved.
I think you're taking it too literally, obviously he is a human, but he was treated less than even if people knew that he was a person
It's possible that no one could find a priest willing to give last rites in time. Just because one priest was willing to marry him to someone doesn't mean much.
Europe was quite a place back in the day. Can hardly imagine the pain these poor folks endured.
Just ask most immigrants and refugees: Europe is still "quite a place." :/
I would appreciate knowing more about the truth in the stories that the Brothers Grim collected together ❤
The truth is that those were stories, not real events. The idea was for young girls not go wandering in the forest and talk to strangers, or else they would get raped and heated by the wolf. Or accept food from a stranger, or else get poised. Or treat your sisters good, or else one day they might be above you and you get to suffer. Basically the stories were just that, stories, like we have in the bible. They are not real.
If you read the original stories you would get sick, because they involve gore situations, like cutting fingers and torture. Disney is like a soft version of the Grim stories.
And the most important here is that this story has nothing to do with Grim Brothers.
*given how dark the original tales were*
@@mikatu Even stories in the Bible has slips of truth. You have made assumptions and gave a large blanket statement of ignorance. You need to do research on history or shut up. Many ancient texts collaborate various parts of the bible and it certainly does give a view of what life was like back then with what they ate, their customs, and what they did to treat illnesses. Josephus's the Jewish War is a Roman historian work that mentions Jesus and is not the bible. I am not even religious but took courses in history and am very well read. I hate people spreading ignorance. There are many fairy tales based off of real stories too, like The Blood Countess. Very gory things do happen, all the time, even modern day. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes
@@Skitdora2010 this 🤟🏻
The truth is... alot of these stories existed long before brothers grim. They just wrote them down. Before that, stories were passed down orally for generations. Hundreds, maybe even thousands of years of build up before even being written down. Because of that there is no way to know the exact origins of a lot of these stories, or even if they are based on real events or not. That makes it challenging for a lot of these stories. It's mostly speculation, which is fun to ponder on.
I was doing some research about other stories that are similar to Beauty and the Beast, and I found a Celtic myth called "Prince Niall and the Hideous Hag", which is basically a reverse gender role of Beauty and the Beast because Niall kissed the Hideous Hag and she turned into a beautiful woman. A second story I found comes from Arthurian legend about Sir Gawain. Gawain kissed an ugly woman named Lady Raglan and she turned into a beautiful woman. I just thought I'd share these two stories for anybody who has never heard about them. :)
Thanks 😊
Sadly, Sir Gawain ended up getting beheaded & his afterlife, along with the German Dullahan, and of course, the now renowned American Revolutionary grenadier named Henrich Range (of historical _Sleepy Hollow_ legend as THE Headless Horseman), created the headless rider mythos.
This version where the evil queen arranges a marrage between a beautiful girl and a beast man, and the children are taken away from the parents would make an excellent movie. The REAL Beauty & the Beast!
I'd love to replay my life story as a tribute to my long lost children.
RIP Petrus, Catherine, and the 7 children. 💐🙏🏼
Ppl fear what they don’t understand.
That Queen is evil personified, what a cruel pos.
*Crushing all your childhood dreams, one video at a time*
Utterly heartbreaking.
The same happened to Little People ( dwarfism).
They were sought after as pets or Jesters by many Renaissance Courts in Europe (Famous painting of Spanish Court with a prominent female Little Person with the Infanta.)
he touched on that in the video
I’d like to hear you do a video about Vitiligo. Many people accused Michael Jackson of bleaching himself which is true, only because a burn to the skin around his face allowed Vitiligo to surface causing him to have no melatonin in certain areas of his skin making him look spotty. He didn’t believe he could perform in public looking like that and there’s no way to really get it back once it’s gone.
After being burned, I was spotted for over ten years until the condition finally spread to ever corner of my body. Now, 10 minutes of direct sunlight is enough to cause cancer. But it’s the other autoimmune conditions that are getting worse because of this triggering event, hence the term autoimmune.
Thank you! I agree as well. I would love to see a video on that too. He too also suffered from autoimmune deficiency as well and he had the same problem with being out in the sun, which is why we also see him pictured with masks and face coverings, he walked around with umbrellas covering him, and half the time he was only seen at night just to avoid the sunlight. In autopsy reports on him found that he had 20% left of his original skin-color left on his legs and parts of his back. We celebrate and commend all these supermodels and celebrities walking around with Vitiligo like it's a trophy and we should all accept them, COMPLETELY FORGETTING about what Michael Jackson went through and how much he was ridiculed and made fun of for having the same damn thing, and it sickens me.
It's called melanin not melatonin. Melatonin is a sleep hormone produced by the pineal gland (just above the brain).
MJ was a freak and that was no sickness, he did it on purpose.
In fact if you check the situation in certain countries, like Jamaica, you will see a lot of black people bleaching the skin and they really make it until it is all white. They sell if everywhere there.
@@mikatu skin bleaching being common doesn’t mean he didn’t have vitiligo. Even if he did use vitiligo as an excuse to bleach that’s not to say he never had the condition.
@@mikatu How do you know MJ did it on purpose?!? Are you privy to his medical records or are you yourself a doctor that examined Mr. Jackson? If not than all you have stated is baseless and you're just a hater.
At least their marriage was a love match, Catherine Medici can't say the same!! She was never loved by her husband and had to beg him to consummate their marriage to make heir's. I'm glad he at least had some type of love in his life😞
I choose to believe their marriage ended up as a love match. ❤️ People were, & still are so cruel. I cannot imagine the absolute & utter horror of having 4 of your children ripped away from you. RIP 🙏
I find this story very sad and tragic. The real beasts, in fact, are not the Gonsalvus, but those who believe they are superior and above the others. The aristocrats are truly monsters here.
If they had sense they would have just shaved the hair off his face to see that he's a person and not an animal. God created everyone of us and we should love each other despite physical
appearances.
This is so interesting. If you really look at the backstory behind most Disney movies they are really creepy and really dark honestly I don’t really like that many Disney movies as Disney tries to fluff them up But if you really hear the plot without knowing they’re a Disney movie most of them sound really tragic and sad
They were never meant to be real stories. They have more of a symbolic meaning.
@@karolinakuc4783 Yep. Most of them were morality fables meant to instill proper behavior in children, since the heroes typically went through some harrowing trials & the villains -- particularly in the appropriately titled GRIMM adaptations by the two German brothers with that specific surname -- suffered horrific deaths.
It’s crazy to think about how ignorant humans were back then. It must’ve been a scary world for people who were born with physical disfigurements. Or for people forced into slavery. I’m glad that we have evolved as humans since then BUT it’s sad that some ignorance still remains.
I don't think humans have evolved at all since the 1500's. We live in a time where unvaccinated people are segregated from society, not allowed to eat in restaurants or go to the gym with the "clean" people. How have things changed?
Humans haven't changed at all. We're still as despicable as before. If anything, I'd stay that humans today hide their prejudice and cruelty with the false guise of acceptance. So many people will say, "Oh I'm so accepting and loving of everybody" because it makes them look good, only to treat anyone who the media/society deems as unworthy like utter trash. We're still as cruel as ever. Adding on to what Howard said, so many people are mistreating the unvaccinated because the media labels them as "dangerous" and "unclean". I used to think humans have evolved too until I saw everything that happened this past year and a half. It's disgusting and eye-opening.
@@howtubeable hardly segregated, they're still allowed to do whatever vaccinated people do for the most part.
Treating someone like shit because they were born with a disorder is not the same as not wanting someone to spread disease and illness. The unvaccinated are to blame for all of these new strains that are causing illness in vaccinated people.
I don't understand how entitled, narcissistic, and insensitive you can be to compare those two things like they're even comparable.
@@howtubeable lol , now not being able to go to the gym is the same as slavery ?
@@chromberries7329 I hate that you made this a political issue smh 🤦🏽♂️
I do feel bad for them but i definitely would rather be the pet of royalty than a peasant at that time
Good point
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It just amazes me how some people could feel entitled to buy and sell someone else's children for their own selfish desires.
Slaves are a real part of history
Because they weren't seen by those nobles as the same humans, unfortunately. Those kids were seen as pets, much like how we give out or buy/sell dogs, cats, etc. But we know the Gonsalvus were humans just like us which is heartbreaking.
That's 15 century slavery was the norm
Wow 😳, Petrus was shipped to Henry II French King as animal, but King made his own investigation and decide to treat him as a boy, or at least give him a chance for education. To me, that's an enlightenment ideas for that time of history.
I named my daughter Belle after this movie. My whole out look is now changed.
I think Catherine did love him(typically in paintings having a hand on the significant others shoulder or even more scandalous... their hand was to portray love), it was just being constantly bombarded with courtiers poking, prodding, and down right bullying them. Not to mention having her kids shipped off to those horrible people would make anyone angry and distraught (hence the far off stare)
Lest that is my most optimistic view on the whole thing
Wishful thinking. Life doesn't work like this. We don't know what kind of man he was. Oppressed men tend to take it out on those beneath them. Trauma also usually manifests as rage, especially in men. It's highly unlikely she didn't suffer mental or physical abuse at his hands. Plus once she married him, she would have been ostracized by friends and family as the "woman who married an animal". She HAD to stay married since divorce in those days would get you excommunicated from Church and for someone like her remarriage would be impossible.
@@jakestroll6518 or she could have also come to care for him. As you said, we don't know what kind of man he was. For all we know, he could have kept love in his heart for his only partner and family in life despite all the sufferings life has thrown at him.
@Busy Bodies! i'm not saying she's a saint or women are. But i'd also like to tell you not to generalize women/people just because maybe you never met an extremely kind person. There are billions of humans in the world. So many possibilities.
Anyway it's useless to speculate about them because we'll never know the truth. I'd rather think positively. Majority of their life, they were not treated well, I'd rather hope there was even just a speck of light in the misery.
@@mirrioullei think he was calm by nature kind even dince sge stayed she could divorce even if she would have been shunned if he was that terrible i doubt he was we dont know
@@jasminkrieger8464 No, she couldn't divorce. Divorce wasn't off the table, per say, but those who committed it back then were ostracized from the society at large. Also, the misfit couple were the property of the French monarchy (the aforementioned Queen Catherine Medici, who had one of the cruelest reigns in French royal history), so they had to stay together, largely for their own survival.
I wonder how well the siblings with and without the condition got along 🤨 it would be sad if they resented one another ...
It'd be spot on and hilarious if this video were sponsored by _Manscaped._
Because of this real life couple, do you think that’s why “beauty” is named Catherine in the two tv shows?
This needs to be approved as a film. We’ve had people with this condition being represented on film before [actors in prosthetic make up, mostly, so doesn’t really count]. It would be interesting to do a period piece showing a man going through a situation like this with his wife. Naturally, we would tell this story from the perspective of the woman but we would always be with both the husband and the wife.
Would be such an interesting film, I want more historic films about "regular" interesting people, not just about Kingston and queens.
It WAS approved as a film. It's called "The Beauty and the Beast"
Such a sad story that she was held against her will for so long by that monster!
@@user-sz2px8pv3f She was not held against her will by her husband. Both of them suffered under Queen Catherine's rulership after King Henry II's death. Queen Catherine basically demanded that the misfit couple sire hairy offspring for her so she could parcel them off to wealthier nobles from other European countries of higher status than our "fairytale" couple, meanwhile the entire family were given a mock celebrity tour so they could be ogled at (feigning sympathy whilst hiding probable disgust) by curious onlookers. If the couple didn't do as Her Royal Majesty had wished, they would've been tried for treason & severely punished (more than likely tortured in a dungeon before getting beheaded via French guillotine, gut & quartered, or fired upon by a firing squad), so they had no choice in the lives they led.
This is such a sad story... I wonder what happened to all the children!!! Poor things
There’s a movie called Fur (2006) with Robert Downey jr and Nicole Kidman that has a plot very similar to this! Robert Downey Jr’s character also has the same same condition as Petrus.
Although their story is a sad one by today's standards, the couple had a better life than 95% of their countrymen in the 1500's. Plenty of food, clothing, bedding. It's cruel that they were treated like breeding stock though.
The treatment of Petrus as a child and his children later on 😡😭💔
I worked as an university teacher in Saudi Arabia, and when one of my students took off her veil, I thought it was a man! It took me a second to realize that it was a woman who had hair literally all over her body. She was a good girl- friendly and kind, but it was surprising!
It would be cool to learn the true story behind tall tales like Johnny Appleseed, Paul Bunyan, or John Henry.
I’ve loved Disney fairytales since I was a young girl. I had no idea that most of them were based on real stories. It’s also interesting that people back then called that man a “barbaric” sounds like the “normal” people were the barbarians back then.
Thanks for sharing their story 🙏🏾💜
Never been a fan of Disney movies to begin with. But i see why they would want to change it. Feel so sad for this poor family
It's easy to see how the Beauty and the Beast might have been drawn from this tale, but the moral is different. Here, this woman learnt to love a man whose appearance can hardly have been attractive, and forebearance with the endless persecution he endured for it. The fairy tale is a fairly straight forward "good overcomes evil" moral, the heroine saving her flawed prince from the evil under which spell he has fallen (actually a fairly dubious moral, if you ask me, just ask countless women who have married drunkards in the hope of reforming them). I don't know if you could really say that the fairytale is related to the story of this noble family or not.
In fairness, I married an alcoholic who is now sober. I know the fairy tale of being able to “save” a man doesn’t happen often, but when it does it’s beautiful and magical.
@@tarabooartarmy3654 I am very glad to hear that it worked out for you both. The dragon of addiction is ugly and hard beat, personal experience. Myself, I'd think twice before getting tangled up in it.
Well, the moral of the fable isn't exactly that, it's more "learn to look past the face of a person". The transformation is simbolical, it means she was able to see the real him, not that she changed him (this is also why I don't get the people who say he should have remained a beast... What does it matter at that point? Belle's declaration comes before she even knows his real look, it's clear she is indifferent to that).
@@cervanera2228 To a certain degree, it is. Though, in the fairytale, the beast is redeemed from the evil spell he was put under. In life, this man was under no evil spell, that was just his lot in life, and that's the way he stayed. Belle had it easy, she only had to put up with a beast for a limited period of time, after which she got a handsome prince, which she knew would be the outcome if she persevered with him and his character flaws that had seenhim cursed in the first place. In life, this woman knew that she was stuck with this hairy man for life, though he was no beast in character, it sounds like he was a solid, high quality person. No rough diamond to convert there. So it's different, really.
Considering the time they lived in, I would say they lived pretty well, if not perfectly. Look at what happened to the elephant man, born about 300 years later and hustled through life as a freak.
There is a facinating video on CZcams concerning the life of John Merrick. Appearently he orchestrated his own career and earned considerable sums as an entertainer for a time. He lost his fortune when the publics tastes changed and his health declined. The movie was not entirely truthful about his captivity!
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Yes, you are correct.
I was just drawing a historical parallel.
Actually, freaks in the mid 1800s to approximately mid 1900s (say 1965 or so) had it pretty good, if they worked the circus routes.
Ringling hired many who went on to make good wages, plus they got to live amongst others like themselves - their very own communes, I guess you could say.
It's heartbreaking how he and his children were treated.
This story needs to be made into a movie.
It is amazing to think how much we have grown as a society.
Really??? Someone like this would still be treated bad today
@@maxpayne4129 Just compare free societies to underdeveloped ones. People who have access to knowledge usually are more tolerant than those who rely only on superstition. But not in every case.
@@hackman669 fair enough 👍
Even to this day, people with that condition are still made fun of and treated differently. I remember when I was growing up, because of my genetics, I grew body hair pretty early. I was teased for it and even called a monkey for it.
So I started to shave really early and it created scars I'm still trying to get rid of. I'm not extremely hairy but that's how people made it when I was only 10 years old. I could not imagine how terrible their life is.
Beauty and the Beast (French title: La belle et la bête) is a famous European fairy tale, spread in many variations, whose origins could be found in a story of Apuleius, contained in The golden ass (also known as The metamorphoses) and entitled Cupid and Psyche [1]. The first published version was that of Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in La jeune américaine, et les contes marins in 1740. Other sources, however, attribute the recreation of the original story to Giovanni Francesco Straparola in 1550. A story that could having been inspired by a true story that took place on the shores of Lake Bolsena, in the province of Viterbo [2], in the character of Petrus Gonsalvus. The most popular version is, however, a reduction of Madame Villeneuve's work published in 1756 by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont in Magasin des enfants, ou dialogues entre une sage gouvernante et plusieurs de ses élèves. The first translation, in English, dates back to 1757. [3]
There are numerous adaptations and transpositions of this fairy tale known throughout Europe. [4] In France, for example, in 1771 the lyric version of Beauty and the Beast was written by Marmontel and composed by Grétry, based on the story of Mme Leprince de Beaumont and entitled Zémire et Azor, which also enjoyed enormous success in the nineteenth century. [5]
On the other hand, the dramatic work Amour pour amour by Nivelle de la Chaussée, always inspired by this fairy tale, is dated 1742.
Villeneuve's original version is much more extensive than Beaumont's. Villeneuve, in fact, provides numerous details that Beaumont omits and which fundamentally concern the family background of both Bella and the prince. In this version, Bella was the daughter of the king of the Happy Island and of a good fairy, but an evil fairy had fallen in love with the monarch and so, imprisoned the mother of the princess, the hag decided to eliminate the last obstacle that arose. he stood between her and her love. For this reason, the little girl was hidden away, trying to pass her off as one of her daughters - who was indeed dead - of a wealthy merchant. [6] The Prince, on the other hand, lost his father at an early age and could not even enjoy maternal love, as the queen was engaged in a war to defend the kingdom and left him in the care of a fairy. She this she tried in every way to seduce the young man, once an adult, but he refused her and was thus transformed into a hideous beast.
Almost half of Villeneuve's story centers on the wars between fairies and kings and he offers a much darker and more magical vision of the castle than the traditional one. [7]
Beaumont decided to completely omit the familiar and tragic background, freeing himself from the message that Villeneuve wanted to give to his own story: a harsh critique of contemporary society, in which women were forced to marry for convenience, with husbands who were sometimes far worse than the Beast. By eliminating all secondary characters, Beaumont adapted, or readapted, the story, reducing it to an almost archetypal simplicity and following the same patterns as the numerous previous variations of the tale. [8]
Beaumont's version is the one that is considered traditional and has been the most widespread and known. All interpretations, adaptations and subsequent versions are based on this version and not on the original one by Villeneuve.
Wow
Thank you for this video. People are so cruel, and that queen was the real beast! I think this was a love match. Heartbreaking about the children.
Thank you for this video. I found it really interresting =) A nice idea of more videos like this is to go beyond famous fairytales. I bet a lot of the brothers Grimm's tales are rooted in reality and/or history somehow =)
This story would make a way better movie then the Disney's "Beauty and the Beast"..you got cruelty, compassion,comedy relief and heartbreak material here!
Great video but totally makes you sad to think about all they went through 😔 and what happened to the children after they were shipped off 😢
Thank you for educating me! I had no idea that this was a true story!!!
That was so heartwrenching to watch...No woman would live 40 years with a man whose seen as a freak and have 7 children by him unless she really fell in love with her husband...What is even sadder is that Petrous chose to have children after his 4th child knowing what their lives will consist of...😔
They had to stay married by order of the queen. Divorce was illegal in the Catholic Church and still is. No birth control. No choices for women. Maybe they loved each other?
Another excellent episode. Thankyou.
Could you do facts about PT Barnum?
yes
I’d love to see a video on the weird history of freak shows!!!
when people say how desensetized modern society is I always remember what life was like 100+ years ago
Once we choose not to view individuals as not quite human, the cruel possibilities are endless.😔😔
The animated version of beauty and the beast was the best 🥀🥀🥀
Really hate what Disney is doing now with the live action movies.
When we were young we had access to nice cartoon movies of those stories, they were magical.
Now they are turning them into just normal movies, there is no longer magic and fantasy.
@@mikatu I know right it kind of sucks
Paige O’Hara is a significantly better actress and singer than Emma Watson was in that role
@@mikatu I don’t like the Disney Company much anymore. These live action adaptations are dumb
Great video This story was so sad …. They should make a movie about what really happened …
I knew of that portrait of one of their daughters holding some parchment, but I had no idea about her parents’ story. How fascinating!
They were really lucky to be able to live and reproduce. Pertras was not killed for some superstitious beliefs which was the order of the day during that period.
The tale really is about how love has a tendency to make one forget faults noted. You develop a blind spot caused by love. What you uses to see as fault gets erased. If the inner man of Petrus was golden, the top could easily have been forgotten. Because what we really care about is what we are made to feel. Watching beauty and the beast myself, I didn't believe that the beast became a handsome prince, bit rather that love changed the way beauty saw him.
Weird history convinced the Joker that if anyone else calls you Beast he will rip their lungs out.
absolutely love your videos !
I'm now going to use "singing with dishes" to describe a crazy person 🤣😆🤣
Love your videos! Could you please make one about the real life muffin man?
I'm a man and I have access to muffins. Technically that makes me a real life muffin man...I think 🤔
I used to wonder if Beauty and the Beast was based on the ancient Greek myth of the ugly and disabled god Hephaestus and his wife Aphrodite the goddess of beauty and love. I guess I was wrong. And speaking of Hypertrichosis, I sometimes wonder if it has been around for thousands of years and was the basis/inspiration for the Biblical characters Samson and Esau as well as the character Enkidu from the Mesopotamian myth of Gilgamesh. Makes you think.
Thank you for this video ! 😊💐
Kudos to the designer who comped this video-y'all must have had a blast ('cause it shows!) /applause
I always kind of preferred the Beast as the Beast in the Disney version.
Then again I was half raised by my sister's cat. So growling doesn't really bother me. 😉
I've seen a family of acrobats in Mexico with this condition & they were really kind lovely beautiful people.
All of them PLEASE, Ty😘
I never heard about this before so I'm excited to watch this...
Life repeats itself and so dose history.