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Marie Antoinette – no way to treat a Queen. Fall of Versailles On October 5, 1789, rumours spread in Paris that the royals were hoarding all the grain. A hungry and angry mob of peasants decided to march on Versailles. Fortunately, one of the king’s courtiers, the young Duc de Fronsac, was in the city at the time and ran on foot through the woods to the palace to warn Marie Antoinette of the angry mob’s furor. An emergency meeting was held to determine what the royal strategy should be with Marie Antoinette once again repeating her plea that the king and his family flee. The king refused insisting that it was his duty to stay. Aware that she was the primary target of the mob’s anger, Marie Antoinette chose to sleep alone that evening. She left strict instructions with the Marquise de Tourzel that she was to take the children straight to the king if there were any disturbances. In the early hours of the morning the mob broke into the palace. The queen’s guards were massacred. She and he
