A group of angry women marched from Paris to Versailles to demand bread from King Louis XVI. They numbered around 6,000 and were armed with weapons like pitchforks and scythes. When they reached Versailles, they stormed the gates and confronted the King while wet and muddy. Faced with this large, threatening crowd, the King agreed to provide bread to the women. He also decided to move his entire royal court from Versailles to Paris in response to the march, a move that would have significant consequences as the French Revolution continued.

1. Author Unkown: The March To Versailles (1789)<br /> <br /> It was early in the morning on October 5 when groups of women had gotten together and made a big crowd in the central marketplace of Paris The march to Versailles, with its angry women and their threatening behavior, was one of many violent disturbances that occurred during the French Revolution. The march on Versailles's main purpose was to obtain bread and force the price of bread down to where it had been. Versailles was known as a royal paradise, and many very important people lived there along with the King and his family. Versailles was also known as a great big paradise where there were a lot of parties held and the King did nothing but hunt and have fun. It was a very huge surprise to have all of these working class people march into the palace and demand bread from the King. <br />Bread was the main diet of the French people at this time. In fact, working people back in the revolutionary days spent about half of their wages to buy bread for food. However, in August of 1789, the price of the bread that these people had been purchasing all this time, increased greatly. The people had so much trouble trying to get food, that at Versailles, a mad crowd of people killed a baker who was trying to sell his bread at 18 sous [French money], which was very costly for the people. This incident showed exactly how much bread meant to the people in Paris.<br />The women got to the Hotel de Ville where they numbered around 6,000, while the men were encouraging the women to perform the march. The men started screaming at the women to march. So the women began their march to Versailles. As they marched through the streets, more women came out of their houses and off the street to join them. The women were armed with pitch forks, muskets, pikes, swords, bludgeons, crowbars, and scythes as they marched through the rain. When the women reached Versailles, they stormed through the gates. The women demanded bread while they stood in the palace of Versailles sopping wet and muddy. The King was scared and overwhelmed by group of people that stood before him. Since the national assembly had most of the power in the country of France and the king had very little, the king gave in to the women's demands. He then told the women that he would have all of the bread in Versailles ordered out to them. But more than bread arrived in Paris. The King decided to move his court to Paris was well, a decision that would have dire consequences as the revolution unfolded.<br />