The storming of Bastille was an incident that occurred in the afternoon of July 14th 1789 in Paris, France. The Bastille was a political prison represented by royal authorities in Paris in which there were only seven inmates in at the time of its storming. The political prison and armory was seen as a symbol of monarchy’s abuse of power. Its fall was the significant start of the French revolution. During Louis XVI’s reign, France was faced with an economic crisis due to the cost of intervening in the American war of independence and it exacerbated with an unequal system of taxation. The Estate General of 1789 came together on May 5th 1789 to deal with the issue however, they were held back by archaic protocols and the conservatism of the
