The Women's March on Versailles during the French Revolution

These are some facts on the Bread March of Women.
1. The Women’s March on Versailles, also known as the The Bread March of Women, occurred on October 5, 1789 during the French Revolution.
2. About 7,000 peasant woman gathered guns and artillery and began storming Versailles.
3. They did this due to a bread shortage, and the fact that prices were extremely high for bread.
4. Marie Antoinette was the main target for the mob of women.
5. The crowd sang songs blaming Marie Antoinette for the bread shortage.
6. Marie Antoinette chose to sleep by herself that night, leaving her children with a governess.
7. The courtiers begged the royal family to flee, but they refused to leave.
8. Early that morning, the mob broke into the palace, and killed two bodyguards, placing their heads on pikes.
9. The queen and two of her ladies-in-waiting escaped through a secret passageway to the king’s room just moments before the mob entered her rooms.
10. A crowd outside demanded that the queen come out on the balcony; she did, accompanied by two of her children, but the crowd told her to send the children back inside.
11. Marie Antoinette stood alone on the balcony for close to ten minutes with guns pointed at her. Many were so impressed with her bravery, that they shouted “Vive la Reine!”
12. The women demanded food and that the royal family leave the palace for Tuileries Palace under house arrest.

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