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The Marquis of Ferrières, describes the events of the October Days, when a crowd of Parisians marched on Versailles and demanded the king return to Paris.
Historian Christopher Hibbert notes that the Marquis de Ferrieres wrote that the Duc of Orleans walked amongst the crowd outside Versailles stirring trouble, had paid men to dress as women, and directed the crowd’s anger towards the Queen and Lafayette.
Among those to take a seat in the Legislative Assembly were Jacques Brissot, the Marquis de Condorcet, the Republican lawyer Pierre Vergniaud, the Jacobin merchant Pierre Cambon and Georges Couthon, an ally of Robespierre.
Oct 9, 2024 · Overnight, with help from some of the national guardsmen, the crowd of women broke into the royal palace and demanded that the royal family return to Paris to ensure a continuing supply of food. A nobleman, the Marquis de Ferrières, recorded his observations.
The Réveillon riots describe mob violence that erupted in Paris in April 1789. They were triggered by rising food costs, stagnating wages and false rumours that a Paris wallpaper merchant had called for lower wages. Many consider these riots to be the first insurrectionary violence of the French Revolution.
Jun 5, 2012 · Similarly, noblesse was legally brought to an end—even if only for 14 years—in 1789, as the marquis de Ferrières philosophically observed on 20 June 1790. ‘Noblesse’, he writes, ‘is already destroyed in fact.
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To some observers, such as the nobleman the Marquis de Ferrières from whose letter the following passage is excerpted, this "riot" suggested a dangerous environment of popular unrest on the eve of meeting of the Estates–General.
