
3.14- The Women's March on Versailles
Revolutions
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The French Revolutionary Uprisings of the '90s
On the morning of october fifth, 17 89, the paris awoke to the sound of church bells ringing. These bells had started ringing at the rather intimidating request of a group of really super angry housewives who were organizing a mass demonstration. Just the night before, a baker had narrowly escaped being lynched, but was saved by a few national guardsmen. So we'll have the journey of june twentieth and the journey of august tenth. That's a really super big one. There's actually a bunch of them over the next decade. But don't worry, we'll get to them all, and in the order that they come.
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