The crowd of seven thousand, mostly women,…

October 1789 CE

The crowd of seven thousand, mostly women, travels the distance from Paris to Versailles—about twelve miles (nineteen kilometers)  in about six hours.

Among their makeshift weaponry they drag along several cannons taken from the Hôtel de Ville.

Boisterous and energetic, they recruit (or impress into service) more and more followers as they surge out of Paris in the autumn rain.

In their ambiguous but always aggressive poissard slang, they chatter enthusiastically about bringing the king back home.

Less affectionately, they speak of the queen, Marie Antoinette, and many have no restraint in calling for her death.

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Versailles Ile-de-France France View →

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Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette View → Louis XVI of France View → Marie Antoinette View →

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France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of View →

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French Revolution View → Women's March on Versailles View →

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