oct 5, 1789 - Women's March on Versailles

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In late 1700's France, there was a group of women known as the 'Fearsome Fish Ladies' for being strong working women who cleaned and skinned fish that their husbands caught. On this day, they broke out into minor riots over the price of bread. Among the unrest, the women, encouraged by revolutionary agitators, decide to storm the palace of Versailles. They ransack the city armory for weapons before continuing the march to Versailles. They kill several guards and parade their heads on sticks. The women want to kill Marie Antoinette, but she escapes just in time, so they stab and rip up her bed in a rage. The following day, the mob forces the royal family to move to Paris so they can see the squalor that the third Estate is living in.

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