Storming of the Bastille

including the March on Versailles, Storming of the Bastille and the execution of the king. Peasants fought because the king had not provided enough to them. By fighting, the peasants showed that you did not need money to make a change. The peasants sparked the revolution with the first course of violent action; raiding of the bastille. Not having enough weapons and gunpowder, the people decided to go to the the site of the bastille which had gunpowder. The bastille…

The French Revolution marked a time in France much like the American Revolution. Although the actions carried out were much different the results were the same. The increased debt in France put a lot of strain on the common people as they were there the only ones that paid taxes. The First and Second estates were exempt from taxes. With an insurmountable amount of debt within the country the commoners could no longer keep the country afloat with their tax dollars and the king had to call a…

privilege. The image also includes the Bastille fortress in the background. The storming of the Bastille is considered the starting event to the French revolution. The Bastille fortress was used as a state prison for high class convicts, political trouble makers and spies. The military governor, Bernard-Jordan de Launay, feared it would become a target for revolutionaries and on July 14, 1789 the attack on the fortress occurred. Men stormed the great walls of Bastille and began to lower the…

On 14 July 1789, a state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. It demonstrated people power that was derived from the Tennis Court Oath and how they finally retaliated against the corrupt systems of the ancient regime, “people bravely faced death…women…even the children…

history is such a large and traditionally successful country has been forced through hardships and failures in seemingly all aspects of the country. The oppression of the French people, the economic failure of the French government, and the storming of bastille led to the cause of the French revolution. Many things contributed to the oppression of the French people, from food costs soaring to the extravagant spending by King…

their privileges, the other two bodies of this ancient society of orders fought viciously to protect themselves; however, a chain of events ended up dislodging their grip over the French people. The creation of the National Assembly, the storming of the Bastille and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen are three essential and extremely consequential events during the ‘moderate’ phase of the French Revolution for they convey the restlessness of the French people, above all those of…

The French Revolution took place in France from 1789-1799. It was a period of time when the people overthrow the government and took over to create a better leadership for the country. The Mexican Revolution for Independence lasted for 11 years from 1810-1821. It was a bloody battle between the Mexican people and people who were loyal to Spain. The French and the Mexican Revolution are similar in that they both were motivated and inspired by Enlightenment ideas. However, they were different in…

The Bastille was a medieval fortress with 8 towers, which at the time of the French Revolution only housed only a few common criminals. Despite such few prisoners, the fortress stood as a symbol of royal tyranny. The rising rebellion of the Third Estate, known as the National Assembly, were looking to capture weapons and ammunition to support their cause. They had earlier taken over the Hôtel des Invalides to gather the weapons there. They found 29,000 to 32,000 muskets, but they were without…

Monarchy were the Storm of the Bastille where the city stormed the prison and destroyed the building brick by brick, the March Versailles where women stormed the Palace of Versailles in attempt to massacre the queen Maria Antoinette, and the Reign of Terror where for a period of time violence occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, started by conflict between two rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins. To start, the Storm of the Bastille was the real start to the…

Starting in 1789, there was a large clamor to change the economic and fiscal world in France. Many events characterized this revolution, such as the Tennis Court Oath, Storming of the Bastille, the Declaration of the Rights of Man, National Assembly, and the March on Versailles. It started due to argument over power of the king and the method of voting. Leaders looked to end feudalism and have a constitutional monarchy rather than an absolute monarchy. The first major concept of the…