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13170_17792_french_revolution6
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1970
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This clip is from a film that traces the events leading to the French Revolution and the storming of the Bastille. It begins with a group of peasants stealing sacks of grain from a armed convoy. Various shots of the action. A shot of the convoy leaving with a dead soldier. Cuts to two noblemen on horseback. Cuts to a sack of grain being delivered and the baker signing off on the payment. A group of woman come in to buy bread but the price is too high so they bum rush the baker and steal the bread.