THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 1789-1799 - Darien Public Schools

What does the Unicorn
Tapestry below have to do
with the GREAT FEAR??
The Great Fear- Fear Peasants nervous about
that the King and Nobles were massing
troops, ransacked nobles’ nobles homes
With rampant inflation, peasants demanded
that Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette
vacate Versailles
Unicorn Tapestries now at the Cloisters were originally
owned by a Noble French family, they were later stolen
(during the great fear by peasants who used them for
potato sacks!!!!)