
On the 5-6 of October 1789, women stormed the Paris town hall, seized 1700 guns, 4 cannons, and food, then marched on with the Sans-culottes to Versailles to demand bread, the application of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, and to force the Royal family back to Paris.
(illustration from another book by the same author: La Révolution française expliquée en images)
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