The French Revolution was a time of great rebellion and tremendous government reform during the late 1700’s. Men and Women joined together and stood up for their natural rights and went against the French Monarchy in trying to get a fair ruling democracy instead of a unfair ruling monarchy. The three ways the Middle Class challenged King Louis XVI and the French Monarchy were the Storm of the Bastille where the city stormed the prison and destroyed the building brick by brick, the March Versailles where women stormed the Palace of Versailles in attempt to massacre the queen Maria Antoinette, and the Reign of Terror where for a period of time violence occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, started by conflict between two rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins.
To start, the Storm of the Bastille was the real start to the revolution or in other words the first real statement the people made publicly. The prison was in Paris and known as the Bastille. It represented royal authority in the center of Paris, the prison contained just seven inmates at the time of its storming but was a symbol of the abuses of the monarchy. When the Bastille was attacked it had come to demand the huge ammunition stores held within the …show more content…
Many women were complaining that they were starving and not getting enough food and these women were tired of being treated so poorly that the march went from searching for bread to hunting down the queen Maria Antoinette for not supporting the women. Therefore, resulting in the women going to the palace of Versailles and trying to kill the queen. The guards in the palace locked and boarded up as many doors as they could, but either way the women found a way in. Luckily for the queen she was able to escape before the crowd of angry working-women tore her to pieces. This was another key step in working to over throw this unfair and crazy French
To start, the Storm of the Bastille was the real start to the revolution or in other words the first real statement the people made publicly. The prison was in Paris and known as the Bastille. It represented royal authority in the center of Paris, the prison contained just seven inmates at the time of its storming but was a symbol of the abuses of the monarchy. When the Bastille was attacked it had come to demand the huge ammunition stores held within the …show more content…
Many women were complaining that they were starving and not getting enough food and these women were tired of being treated so poorly that the march went from searching for bread to hunting down the queen Maria Antoinette for not supporting the women. Therefore, resulting in the women going to the palace of Versailles and trying to kill the queen. The guards in the palace locked and boarded up as many doors as they could, but either way the women found a way in. Luckily for the queen she was able to escape before the crowd of angry working-women tore her to pieces. This was another key step in working to over throw this unfair and crazy French