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Marie Antoinette's Bread Of Women In France

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On this day in 1789, a furious swarm of about 7,000 working women – outfitted with pitchforks, pikes and muskets – walked in the rain from Paris to Versailles in what was to be an essential occasion in the increasing French Revolution. To the beat of a drum, the ladies droned "Bread! Bread!" – for, in spite of the prolific French soil, the masses of Paris was starving while the remote Louis XVI and the much-despised Marie Antoinette kept on devouring like world renowned rulers and rulers at their salubrious nation indiscretion. Despite the fact that the walk is frequently alluded to as the "Women's" March on Versailles, there were men incorporated into the group too. One of the fundamental pioneers of the walk was a man named Stanislas-Marie

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