The History of the Bread Riot, Part 1
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The Bread Rites, the French Revolution, and the French Working Class
In 1793, women in paris started a bread riot. They forced the royal family to come back with them. This radically changed the direction of the french revolution. Napoleon takes power and this is where we enter what's known as the bourgeois revolution.
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