Women Storm Versailles: King Dragged Back to Paris
Thousands of Parisian women armed with pikes and muskets marched twelve miles to Versailles, demanding bread and confronting Louis XVI over his refusal to abolish feudal privileges. They dragged the royal family back to Paris the next morning, effectively ending the monarchy's physical separation from the people it governed.
October 5, 1789
237 years ago
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