2. On page 45, reply to the following Who do you believe is more frightening, an angry man or a woman protecting her children?

3. Between June and the beginning of August there were riots in the countryside. Peasants burned their nobles' chateaux, monasteries and buildings which housed public records. They particularly targeted documents which contained records of their feudal obligations. It was called "The Great Fear" and spread quickly throughout France.

4. Declaration of the rights of Man

5. The National Assembly created the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (DOROM) on August 27, 1789 All men have = rights under the law Sovereignty (right to rule) rests with the people Government by the consent of the governed Right to life, liberty, property Based on the works of Enlightenment: Locke, Rousseau, Declaration of Independence, Jefferson, Virginia Declaration of Rights King refused to endorse it

6. Early in the morning of October 5, 1789, a large group of French women came together in the central marketplace of Paris. What followed was the March to Versailles, one of the most violent episodes that occurred during the French Revolution. The March to Versailles was staged in an effort to obtain bread and force the high prices of bread down. Versailles was known as a royal paradise, reserved for the royal families and their entourages. Versailles was a symbol of the excessive luxuries available only to the king and his family. This naturally became the destination for the angry French women who merely wanted to feed themselves and their families.

8. By the time the women reached Versailles, their rage was focused almost solely on Marie Antoinette – whose misattributed response to the plight of the breadless and starving peasants, “let them eat cake”, was nevertheless a wholly accurate indication of her cluelessness. 20,000 French National Guardsmen had been dispatched to protect the royal family, but the mob still managed to break into the palace to search for the Queen – who only narrowly escaped by fleeing to the King’s secure apartments through a secret passageway. Two of her bodyguards were not so lucky; their severed heads impaled on pikes served as a clear statement of the mob’s intent. The women then assembled in the palace courtyard and demanded to see the Queen. She eventually emerged, along with her two children whom she cunningly used as a human shield – but the crowd demanded the Queen face them alone. For ten excruciating minutes, Marie Antoinette stood on the balcony with her head bowed while the angry throng below screamed and pointed their muskets at her. Remarkably, they did not kill her.

9. Women’s March on Versailles The financial crisis heightened in the months following the Storming of the Bastille Unemployment and hunger increased On October 5, 1789, 7,000 desperate women marched the 12 miles from Paris to Versailles to demand bread The women invaded the palace and killed several guards The king promised to give them bread immediately and to accompany them back to Paris The heads of two nobles, stuck on pikes, led the way, followed by the unarmed royal guard The king and his family never returned to Versailles

10. womens march

11. Homework! Diary entry for Oct 5, 1789