French Revolution. The Women's March on Versailles, also called the October March (5-6 October 1789). The events began on 5 October 1789, among women in the marketplaces of Paris who protested against high prices, the high price of bread and demands for social reforms. The demonstrators joined the revolutionaries who demanded liberal political reforms and a constitutional monarchy for France. Subsequently, a crowd of thousands of Parisian citizens, encouraged by revolutionary agitators, ransacked the city armory and marched on the palace of Versailles, besieging it. The next day, the demonstrators forced the king, his family and a hundred of deputies of the Estates General to return with them to the Tuileries Palace in Paris. The women of Paris on their way to Versailles. Drawing by Hippolyte de la Charlerie. Engraving by Pannemaker. ""History of the French Revolution"". Volume I, 1876.
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French Revolution. The Women's March on Versailles, also called the October March (5-6 October 1789). The events began on 5 October 1789, among women in the marketplaces of Paris who protested against high prices, the high price of bread and demands for social reforms. The demonstrators joined the revolutionaries who demanded liberal political reforms and a constitutional monarchy for France. Subsequently, a crowd of thousands of Parisian citizens, encouraged by revolutionary agitators, ransacked the city armory and marched on the palace of Versailles, besieging it. The next day, the demonstrators forced the king, his family and a hundred of deputies of the Estates General to return with them to the Tuileries Palace in Paris. The women of Paris on their way to Versailles. Drawing by Hippolyte de la Charlerie. Engraving by Pannemaker. ""History of the French Revolution"". Volume I, 1876.

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19e siècle

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