Women's march on Versailles. 06.10. 1789 - 06.10.1789

In French Revolution of Eighteenth Cetury women played a really vital role. Storming of Bastille, Tuileries, all the uprisings...

Undoubtedly, one of the most iconic events was marching of Paris' people to Versailles, led by huge crowds of common women. Their heads were Claire Lacombe, Reine Audu, Théroigne de Méricourt. After women proceeded "winners of Bastille", then - columnes of those who joined during the arch, mostly local peasants (Lafayette, head of national guard, doubted whom to join, but had to join the citizens. Guard found place in the tail). All of them had pikes or scythes, they marched, siging revolutionary chants (Especially "La Carmagnole"). Their mottos were "If we conquer the king, we'll have bread" and "Bring baker, baker's wife and baker's son to Paris", as uprising had two reasons - lack of bread in Pars and information that meanwhile capital starved, royal court held a great banquette with counterrevolutionary officers, who openly reviled Revolution...