1.11. The October Days

Question 1

What did Louis think about the August decrees or the declaration of the rights of man and the citizen?

Answer 1

He refused to accept them and regarded himself as the representative of France and wanted to protect the privileges of ‘my nobility and clergy’

Question 2

What did Louis do to strengthen his position?

Answer 2

He summoned the loyal Flanders Regiment to Versailles in September 1789

Question 3

What happened on the 1st October?

Answer 3

The flanders regiment were given a banquet by the kings bodyguard to celebrate their arrival. Officers trampled on the tricolour cockade and replaced it with the white cockade of the Bourbons

Question 4

When did the news reach Paris of the officers trampling on the cockade?

Answer 4

5th October

Question 5

What happened after hearing about the trampling of the cockade?

Answer 5

A crowd of women stormed the Hotel de Ville, the headquarters of the Paris Commune demanding bread

Question 6

What else was happening on the 5th October?

Answer 6

The worsening of the food situation

Question 7

What did the Paris commune tell the women to do?

Answer 7

Go to Versailles to ask the king and National Assembly for bread

Question 8

How many women marched to get to Versailles?

Answer 8

6000 to 7000 Parisian women

Question 9

How long did it take for the women to get to Versailles?

Answer 9

5 hours

Question 10

What did the women take with them to Versailles?

Answer 10

Homemade weaponry and severe al cannon from the Hotel de Ville

Question 11

What did the crowd decide on the way?

Answer 11

They should bring the king back to Paris so his evil advisors would lose their influence over him

Question 12

What did the crowd think taking the king to Paris would lead to?

Answer 12

Him accepting the August decrees and provide the people with bread

Question 13

What were there also calls to do?

Answer 13

Kill the queen as she was turning the king against the revolution

Question 14

What did Lafayette think about the March?

Answer 14

He was worried about what the crowd may do to the royal family

Question 15

What did Lafayette do after hearing about the march?

Answer 15

He followed them to Versailles with 20,000 National guards

Question 16

What did the king say to the women?

Answer 16

He agreed to provide Paris with grain and approve the August decrees and the declaration of the rights of man and the citizen

Question 17

Why weren’t the women satisfied?

Answer 17

They didn’t trust the kings advisors not to make him change his mind. They convinced the national guard to bring the king back to Paris

Question 18

When did the crowd break into the palace?

Answer 18

6 AM on the 6th October

Question 19

What did the crowd do once they were in Versailles?

Answer 19

They killed at least two guards, paraded their heads on pikes and became close to catching the queen

Question 20

What did Lafayette do after having lost control of his national guard?

Answer 20

Convinced the king that he had no choice but to try to address the crowd to bring the situation under control

Question 21

What was the king greeted by on his balcony?

Answer 21

Cries of ‘To Paris’

Question 22

What did the royal family do about the cries ‘to Paris’?

Answer 22

They accompanied the crowd back to Paris

Question 23

What happened in November 1789?

Answer 23

The women’s petition to the National Assembly was produced proposing a decree to give women equality