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 41 The French Revolution Because of Lafayette's wavering, the Queen was once event was the arrival of Lafayette to ‘put down the insurrection.