Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The March on Versailles was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution.
On October 5, 1789, women had suffered enough injustice due to the economic crisis in France. Bread was very difficult to get and very expensive, and feeding children seemed impossible.
The angry women decided to complain directly to King Louis XVI and his family, as well as to their entire court.
Their demonstrations quickly became intertwined with the activities of revolutionaries seeking liberal political reforms and a constitutional monarchy for France.
The huge crowd of frustrated market women and their various allies grew into a mob of thousands and, encouraged by revolutionary agitators, ransacked the city armory for weapons and marched to the Palace of Versailles, about 13 miles from Paris.
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