#OnThisDay, 5 Oct 1789, thousands of women instigate and lead the March on Versailles.

They - along with revolutionaries who join them - besiege the Palace to demand cheap bread. The march is considered to have an impact on a par with the fall of the Bastille in terms of the French Revolution.

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