How did the Women's March on Versailles relate to the French Revolution?

Answer 1

In those times, the church was not able to provide grants of food nor money to the poor. This increased unemployement and tremendous pressure onj household managers. As a result, on October 5, some seven thousand desperate women marched to Versailles to demand action.

Answer 2

Women marched on Versailles to protest rising bread prices. Bread was a staple in French diet, and one of the few things that most people could afford. At the time there was a bread shortage, however, and prices had risen steeply, so French women marched on Versailles to protest the prices, and because there were rumors that the monarchy was hoarding all the bread.

Answer 3

the Women's March On Versailles was basically a point in the French Revolution where a tonne of starving French peasant ladies wanted bread and came to the palace of Versailles to take out their anger of hunger on King Louis XVI and his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette. I also believe that the women chased Marie Antoinette around Versailles until they finally had to make an agreement. This agreement made King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette move to Paris so they could focus on fixing their country rather than obliviously and carelessly enjoy the the luxuries of the palace Versailles.

Answer 4

To bring the Royal Family back to Paris, in the hope that moving them out of the isolation of Versailles would show them the plight of the people of Paris, who had very little to eat because of the price of bread - a day's wages would buy 2 loaves of 2 lbs each. On the way back with the King, the Queen and the Dauphin (son of the King) and their daughter, they chanted 'Here come the baker, the baker's wife and the baker's apprentice!'

Answer 5

He was a spontaneous grass roots appeal. It was hoped that the Monarchy would come to Paris to see the plight of the people.