The March to Versailles
March to Versailles
On October 5th 1789, a violent dispute broke out in Paris at the Hotel de Ville regarding the lack of bread throughout the country. On this rainy autumn Monday an armed group of approximately six thousand angry French women wanted food and money and were willing push extreme limits in order to fulfill that demand. Conclusively, it can be inferred that this event was influenced by the lack of bread and money in the country. Marie Antoinette was the King’s wife, and she was a very greedy woman; taking all of the bread and money to herself when there was a decrease in flour throughout the country. For this reason, they besieged the Place of Versailles and after a violent and alarming encounter, their request was fulfilled but the very next day they made an even more outrageous request for King Louis XVI and his family return to Paris with them. This was considered to be one of the most righteous episodes that occurred in the French Revolution. When one takes into consideration the French Revolution as a whole, it can be proposed that these events essentially ended the independent authority of the King. The March united the poor and impoverished, the peasants of Paris and demonstrated their intolerance for how they were being treated. It symbolized a new agreement of power, one that found everyone as equals and favoured the nation as a whole as opposed to just the French nobility. In regards to the French people, one might suggest that there were different perspectives on the march depending on his/her ranking in social class. As previously mentioned the March brought the peasants and woman together as a nation and may have conjured strong nationalistic feelings amongst them as they finally stood up for themselves as a collective identity. Moreover, the plan appealed to those in support of the monarchy seeing as a few of the woman in the march were innocently in favor of the monarchy. Furthermore the March to Versailles proved to be a
On October 5th 1789, a violent dispute broke out in Paris at the Hotel de Ville regarding the lack of bread throughout the country. On this rainy autumn Monday an armed group of approximately six thousand angry French women wanted food and money and were willing push extreme limits in order to fulfill that demand. Conclusively, it can be inferred that this event was influenced by the lack of bread and money in the country. Marie Antoinette was the King’s wife, and she was a very greedy woman; taking all of the bread and money to herself when there was a decrease in flour throughout the country. For this reason, they besieged the Place of Versailles and after a violent and alarming encounter, their request was fulfilled but the very next day they made an even more outrageous request for King Louis XVI and his family return to Paris with them. This was considered to be one of the most righteous episodes that occurred in the French Revolution. When one takes into consideration the French Revolution as a whole, it can be proposed that these events essentially ended the independent authority of the King. The March united the poor and impoverished, the peasants of Paris and demonstrated their intolerance for how they were being treated. It symbolized a new agreement of power, one that found everyone as equals and favoured the nation as a whole as opposed to just the French nobility. In regards to the French people, one might suggest that there were different perspectives on the march depending on his/her ranking in social class. As previously mentioned the March brought the peasants and woman together as a nation and may have conjured strong nationalistic feelings amongst them as they finally stood up for themselves as a collective identity. Moreover, the plan appealed to those in support of the monarchy seeing as a few of the woman in the march were innocently in favor of the monarchy. Furthermore the March to Versailles proved to be a