5th October 1789: The October Days begin when a crowd of Parisian women march to the Palace of Versailles to demand food
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The demonstrators soon surrounded the palace and demanded an audience with the king, who met with a small delegation of women, but tensions escalated as the palace was broken into and some royal guards were beaten or even killed by the ...
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