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Detailed explanation-1: -The king and queen then traveled back to Paris with the crowd. By this time the crowd had grown from around 7, 000 marchers to 60, 000. After the return march, the king went to live at Tuileries Palace in Paris. He would never again return to his beautiful palace in Versailles.

Detailed explanation-2: -22.3. 5: The March on Versailles. Concerned over the high price and scarcity of bread, women from the marketplaces of Paris led the March on Versailles on October 5, 1789. This became one of the most significant events of the French Revolution, eventually forcing the royals to return to Paris.

Detailed explanation-3: -La Fayette ultimately convinced the King to accede to the demand of the crowd, that the monarchy relocate to Paris. On October 6, 1789, the King and the royal family officially moved from Versailles to Paris under the “protection” of the National Guards, thus legitimizing the National Assembly.

Detailed explanation-4: -A group of six women nominated by the crowd were escorted into the king’s apartment, where they told him of the crowd’s privations. The king responded sympathetically, and using all his charm impressed the women to the point that one of them fainted at his feet.

Detailed explanation-5: -They besieged the palace and forced King Louis XVI of France (r. 1774-1792) to return with them to Paris. The march, which began in the marketplaces of Paris as a reaction to food scarcity and anti-revolutionary actions by the king’s soldiers, stripped the king of much of his remaining independence and authority.