What is Women's March on Versailles?
{{simplify}} {{Infobox civil conflict|place=[[Kingdom of France]]|image=A Versailles, à Versailles 5 octobre 1789 - Restoration.jpg|caption=A contemporary illustration of the Women's March on Versailles, 5 October 1789|partof=the [[French Revolution]]|date=5 October 1789|side1={{Flagicon image|Flag_of_France_(1790–1794).svg}} [[French revolutionaries]]|side2={{Flagicon image|Royal_Standard_of_the_King_of_France.svg}} [[Kingdom of France]]|units1={{Flagicon image|Flag_of_France_(1790–1794).svg}} Revolutionary militias|units2={{Flagicon image|Drapeau_Armée_Catholique_et_Royale_de_Vendée3.svg}} [[French Royal Army]]}} The '''Women's March on Versailles''' was one of the earliest events of the [[French Revolution]]. It is also called the '''October March''', '''October Days,''' or '''March on Versailles'''. It was an important part of the Revolution. The March began on the morning of 5 October 1789. Women shopping at [[Market|marketplaces]] in [[Paris]] nearly started a [[riot]] when they saw that the price of [[bread]] had increased once again. There were also revolutionaries in Paris that day. They wanted the [[state]] to become more [[liberal]], and they wanted to change the [[absolute monarchy]] into a [[Constitutional monarchy|constitutional one]]. Market women, revolutionaries, and allies grew into a [[mob]] of thousands. They broke into the city armory and stole [[Weapon|weapons]]. Then they marched to the [[Palace of Versailles]]. The crowd [[Siege|besieged]] the palace, and successfully gave their demands to [[Louis XVI|King Louis XVI]]. The next day, the crowd forced the king, his family, and most of the French [[National Constituent Assembly (France)|Assembly]] to return with them to Paris. This ended the king's independence. The March on Versailles was the start of a new balance of power. Eventually the established, privileged orders of the French [[nobility]] lost their influence in favor of the [[Estates of the realm|Third Estate]]: the common people. == Background == [[File:Declaration_of_Huma