The Influence Of The Bread March

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The cartoon shows the famous Bread March that happened on October 5, 1789. This cartoon depicts the women marching from Paris to Versailles. The flag the women are holding is a fictional flag that says “Blood or Bread”. The crossed pike and baguette symbolized how serious women needed bread to feed their children. The steak stick in the middle means that they would kill to get bread. There was an estimate of 6,000 women that were involved in the march. They walked 13 miles in the rain to get to Versailles for bread. After they went to King Louis XVI in the Palace of Versailles, they brought back the king and queen back to Paris which became there “prison”. All of these events had happened all during the French Revolution and during the Enlightenment. While the Bread March was going on, there …show more content…

The Third estate, the lowest estate, had risen up to the top to become a National Assembly. Some of main goals of this insurgency were to get rid of monarchy and to have a political say for the Third estate. Many events like the Storming of Bastille, Bread March, and Napoleon’s reign all happened during the French Revolution. After the King Louis and Queen Marie’s death, France was in great danger on all sides. The National Convention created C.O.P.S or the Committee of Public Safety. This was to deal with the threats to France. Later on Napoleon Bonaparte came and dictated France. He made many good decisions to take France to the top like reuniting the church to the peasants and creating the Napoleonic Code. The start of Napoleon’s fall happened when he was trying to invade Russia but was defeated by his own ignorance and stubbornness. After he came back with only 40,000 soldiers out of 600,000 he was abdicated to King Louis XVII. Though the France went back to feudalism, they did pack a punch to the other monarchs of different countries which they formed an alliance with each

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