Louis’s hesitation regarding the signing of the declaration of right of man were one of the factors that led to the March on Versailles. As a result of the ongoing poor harvest, bread prices skyrocketed and was not affordable to the masses or the general public (people of the third estate). Bread was the main staple in the French diet. Women across Paris were enraged that they couldn't provide for their families and children. They demanded change. Revolutionaries took hold of the riots and the anger as their interests were aligned, they wanted the Royal family to step down and bring change. People started rising up against the government. In the early morning of October the fifth 1789 a mob of French women gathered in the center of Paris. …show more content…
These rumors fueled the fire and panic within the people of France. Upon arriving and the foot of Versailles, Marie Antoinette barely escapes to Louis’s compartment with their children. Paranoia around a circulating rumor regarding the stealing of flour, famine, chronic shortages of bread, and bread made out of the filthy waters running through Paris evoked the Great Fear. The Aristocrats plot/conspiracy to burn crops and to starve the poor and to overthrow the third estate was a very real concern to the people of the third estate. The gathering of troops provoked unrest and rebellion even further. Jean-Paul Marat fuelled a rumor in his newspaper about a party held in Versailles on October 2nd as claimed that the new flag (three colors blue red and white) was thrown to the ground an act of disrespect to the revolution. Thousands of able-bodied illiterate women comprised of wives, and mainly “fish wives” poissardes who sold fish and other items at markets in Paris. They were of muscular build and were brave. Driven to bring a change, and motivated by the phrase “to bring the Baker, the baker's wife and the baker’s son back to