This clip is from a film that traces the events leading to the French Revolution and the storming of the Bastille. It starts with a group of peasants stopping soldiers from taking away their possessions because they could not pay the new taxes. The king’s advisor passes by in a carriage and observes the mood and actions of the peasants. Cuts to the advisor talking to King Louis XVI. The Queen, Marie Antoinette, comes in and listens. The Queen talks to the King.