Abstract
A Versailles, a Versailles. Le 5 octobre 1789, gravure anonyme Bibliotheque nationale de France, 1789 Three months after French revolutionaries stormed the Bastille, Parisian market women, called the Dames des Halles, led thousands of women in a march to Versailles. After demanding bread from the king, petitioning the National Assembly, and rallying thousands of National Guards, the Dames triumphantly returned to Paris with bread and the king himself. On this and many other occasions, the ma...
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