Benjamin Brillaud

Biography

Benjamin Brillaud, also known as Nota Bene, is a French web video creator and popular history communicator, born June 18, 1988 in Athis-Mons (Essonne). He is best known for creating the Nota Bene YouTube channel in 2014, dedicated to history and mythology vulgarization. His channel reached over 2 million subscribers by 2024. From a communist family, he always opens his videos with « Mes chers camarades, bien le bonjour ! », a phrase his grandfather used at PCF or CGT meetings. He founded the Vidéothèque d'Alexandrie in 2014 (left in June 2016) and collaborates with institutions including the L…