October Days
What October Days means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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A Parisian crowd, largely women protesting bread shortages, marched to Versailles and forced the royal family to relocate to Paris, shifting the political centre of gravity.
Parisian women marched to Versailles, forcing Louis XVI to Paris and weakening royal independence.
Topics that use October Days
- 2H France in Revolution, 1774–1815 (A-level only) – The experiment in constitutional monarchy, 1789–1792 (AQA A-Level)
- Revolution and the failure of constitutional monarchy, 1789–93 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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- Great Fear
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- Decentralisation of power
- Economic hardship as a catalyst
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- Popular insurrection and the sans-culottes
- Republicanism
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