Talk:Women's March on Versailles

message: why is this called "The March on Versailles" and not "March of Women" or "Women's March on Versailles"? the word "Women" should be a part in this title. Jessicanr 20:05, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  women,bread,palace,promise 

message: "Louis XVI, however, had made a fatal mistake and was to never see Versailles again." This sentence is out of place and hints at something the article does not describe. Also, why is this tagged part of the food project? Random! Superjoe30 (talk) 23:22, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Random! 

message: There was an awful lot of militant feminist activism during the French Revolution, only one example of which being the march to Versailles. Included is the agitation of women for the right to bear arms, among others. It seems that such an expansion would naturally stem from the most prominent event exemplifying militant feminism, i.e. the march to Versailles. Grules (talk) 15:39, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: "An awful lot of militant feminist activism during the French Revolution"? Please develop.  Frania W. (talk) 16:37, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

text: See the new sections that were added. A link from the Woman's March to Versailles will take you there. Grules (talk) 01:21, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Militant feminist activism 

message: This is a march largely consisting of fish wives, and it is what is taught in most high school curriculums, so I believe we should atleast add a link from the search "March of the Fishwives" if not changing the name completely.
Ellano 03:38, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit Request: Title --> March of the Fishwives

message: During the next few days this article will be expanded significantly. Suggestions and comments will be much appreciated. SteveStrummer (talk) 20:45, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Article revision

message: Would whoever put the template 
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after article has been rewritten & appeared in this version
rather go back to that version ?
--Frania W. (talk) 15:43, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: So this article reads too well to be any good? Should we put the cheap novel style back? 

message: A fairly common error in descriptions of the events of 5-6 October is to describe the Flanders Regiment as foreign mercenaries. They were in fact a regular French infantry regiment who owed their title to distinguished service in that region earlier in the century. As ordinary French soldiers the rank and file had empathy with the marchers from Paris, and this probably explains why they failed to play an effective role after their officers' participation in the unfortunate banquet of 2 October. Accordingly the palace itself was patrolled only by the usual limited numbers (about 60) of Royal Body Guards - the bulk of this aristocratic force having inexplicably been withdrawn to the far end of the Versailles park  where they spent the night. Finally, the "Swiss Guards" present at Versailles were not the genuinely elite regiment that was to be massacred when the Tuileries was stormed on 10 August 1792, but a small ceremonial unit known as the Cent-Suisses.  I have made a few minor changes to an otherwise excellent article in the hope of clarifying these points. Buistr (talk) 04:32, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Flanders Regiment, Body Guard and Swiss Guards 

message: If I am not mistaken, the French musical "1789: Les Amants de Bastille" has a scene, with a song and choreography, that depicts this event.  If adding a section within the Women's March on Versailles that references popular culture is permissible, the scene in the musical might be worth mentioning. 97.73.64.155 (talk) 12:23, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference in Popular Culture 

message: He didn't die at age 31 during the revolution, as stated later in the article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.160.208.1 (talk) 17:41, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Lafayette

message: Are there records of names of women who participated? nikelous 16:45, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conspicuous absence of named women. The only woman besides Marie Antoinette I read was an observer in the March, not a participant, name is Camille Desmoulins. 

message: "The market women and their allies ultimately grew into a mob of thousands" in the first paragraph. The word 'mob' is quite pejorative.  Anyone object to an amendment? OscarFred1952 (talk) 07:35, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mob? 

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