Women's March on Versailles | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-06

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Women's March on Versailles


00:01:23 1 Background
00:04:39 1.1 Early plans
00:05:41 1.2 Royal banquet
00:07:17 2 Beginning of the march
00:10:12 3 Goals
00:11:59 4 Siege of the palace
00:12:40 4.1 Occupation of the Assembly
00:13:56 4.2 Deputation to the king
00:16:19 4.3 Attack on the palace
00:17:57 4.4 Lafayette's intervention
00:19:49 4.5 Return to Paris
00:21:13 5 Aftermath
00:24:35 5.1 Orléanist conspiracy theory
00:26:44 6 Legacy
00:27:40 7 See also
00:27:59 8 Notes



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The Women's March on Versailles, also known as The October March, The October Days, or simply The March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution. The march began among women in the marketplaces of Paris who, on the morning of 5 October 1789, were near rioting over the high price and scarcity of bread. Their demonstrations quickly became intertwined with the activities of revolutionaries, who were seeking liberal political reforms and a constitutional monarchy for France. The market women and their various allies grew into a mob of thousands. Encouraged by revolutionary agitators, they ransacked the city armory for weapons and marched to the Palace of Versailles. The crowd besieged the palace, and in a dramatic and violent confrontation, they successfully pressed their demands upon King Louis XVI. The next day, the crowd compelled the king, his family, and most of the French Assembly to return with them to Paris.
These events  ended the king's independence and signified the change of power and reforms about to overtake France. The march symbolized a new balance of power that displaced the ancient privileged orders of the French nobility and favored the nation's common people, collectively termed the Third Estate. Bringing together people representing sources of the Revolution in their largest numbers yet, the march on Versailles proved to be a defining moment of that Revolution.