On summer/fall around September, 1789 rebellion spread from Paris to the country side. Rumors were spreading that nobles were hiring criminals to threaten and scare the peasants. So the peasants broke into the nobles houses and destroyed papers and documents of their old debts and contracts. Some were so enraged they even burned down their manor. Thousands of women rioted and marched to Versailles. They demanded bread, they killed the guards and forced the king and queen to move to Paris. This was known as the Bread Riot, it happened in October 1789. When the king ordered troops to his palace, Parisian revolutionaries responded. Within a week a mob of women in Paris, many poor and starving, marched on the kings palace. This is known as the March of the Women to Versailles.
