Thursday, April 4th

[6Jacob]

The Great Fear- the peasantry revolt against feudalism and a number of urban disturbances and revolts—many members fled to become Émigrés

Emigres- someone who migrates out of an area

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen- a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human rights, defining the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal—like our Bill of Rights

Legislative Assembly
-occurred in late 1789
-Émigrés are required to return to Paris, death threat if they didn’t return
-king was still scared to return so he removed the idea that they have to come back
-this allowed for new blood (3^rd estate) to become part of the legislative assembly

Women’s March on Versailles
-also known as the October March, The October Days, or simply The March on Versailles
-one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution
-the march began among women in the marketplaces of Paris who, on the morning of October 5, 1789, were near rioting of high price and scarcity of bread
-the market women and their various allies grew into a mob of thousands and ransacked the city armory for weapons and marched to the Palace of Versailles
-the next day, the crowd compelled the king, his family, and most of the French Assembly to return with them to Paris
-these events effectively ended the independent authority of the king