The Secret Side Of History Mystery Babylon, 209P — Page 46

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quoted as having said, "God save us from being saved by
Lafayette."

In the second great uprising of the Revolution, the
march on Versailles, October 5 & 6, 1789, the same

pattern was used as before. First create a crisis, then on
the pretense of solving the crisis, lead the people to
action with a hard core of hired revolutionaries. In this

case, the manufactured crisis was the hunger caused by
agents of the Orleaniste Conspiracy buying up the
available grain, and withholding it from the people. The
people of Paris were then told that the King and Queen
were responsible for the shortage, and that they must
march on the King's residence to obtain bread.

As before, besides those who were actually hungry,
many of the crowd had been bribed or forced to
participate against their will. The women had been
placed in the forefront to prevent the soldiers from using
arms to disperse the crowd as they advanced. Among the
women in the lead were several men dressed in women's

clothing to disguise their identity.

Two events prevented the overthrow of the Monarchy
on this occasion. One was the bravery of the King in
facing the crowd and his magnanimity in offering to give
the bread in Versailles to feed the hungry. The other

The one good thing that came out of the march on
Versailles was the opening of the eyes of Lafayette to the

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The French Revolution

Because of Lafayette's wavering, the Queen was once

event was the arrival of Lafayette to ‘put down the

insurrection.