Bastille

The Storming of the Bastille You are in a park with you family having a picnic. You had just got back from seeing a parade and will be watching fireworks later that night. Families all around you are celebrating. Everywhere you look, you see red, white, and blue. Is this the Fourth of July? Close. It’s the 14th of July. You’re French and celebrating Bastille Day. It has been a national holiday since 1878 in honor of rioters attacking the Bastille, a political prison, in 1789. It was the beginning of the French revolution. Through the eyes of a realist, we will see what lead to the storming of the Bastille and why the French revolution could not be avoided. The Bourbon monarchy ruled France in the 1700’s. Because of how harsh the monarchy was and food shortages, there was unrest in the French people. A crowd formed and began making its way to the Bastille, where a few prisoners were being held captive and weaponry. They began to fire at guards in the towers and then took cover when they were…

The storming of Bastille played a very key part in the French Revolution. The storming of the fortress occurred on July 14th 1789, and it also was one of the first violent protests against the monarchy of france during the revolution. A crowd of about 1000 revolutionaries gathered at the gates of the Bastille demanding entry. Even though there were only seven prisoners inside, there were two other reasons for the capture of the fort. For as well as the symbolism of occupying that hated prison,…

On July 14th, 1789, the fortress built in the late 1300s to protect Paris during the Hundred Years’ War, was being attacked. The revolutionaries who stormed the Bastille prison were mostly store owners and craftsmen, who also happened to be residents of Paris. The Third Estate recently urged the king and demanded that the common people had more of a say in the French government. They were anxious that he was preparing the troops for an attack. In order to get weapons, armor, and other supplies,…

The crowd which stormed the Bastille was not made up of the upper class of the Third Estate, nor did it consist of vagrants or vagabonds or other so called undesirables, the crowd was in large part composed of the ‘urban working class,’ artisans, petty tradesmen, shopkeepers, and militiamen(Rudé PAGE). The attack on the Bastille was not simply mob violence, but it was not an organized politically calculated strike against the monarchy either. At its core the storming of the Bastille was a…

The Storming of the Bastille, occurred on July 14, 1789 and was the brink of the idea of it turning from a revolt to rather a revolution. Earlier that same July, Paris captured a prison called Bastille. The people of Paris had been suffering for a time under the ruling of King Louis XVI, they had been displeased with him as his taxes were too high, and there was a food shortage. This all began to create a great stir amongst the common people, when the people realized that the King was…

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…

Definitions Storming of the Bastille- The storming of the Bastille was the first violent act of the Revolution. citizens did it to free prisoners, prove a point to the monarchy, and to take hold of precious ammunition and weapons, Bastille day is still celebrated in the present annually in France. Third Estate- The third estate was the lowest class in the socio economical system known as the Old Regime. It made up about 97% of the population. The third estate was made up of mainly pleasants,…

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authoritarian reign. This faction of the French government serves as the main sovereignty over the Third Estate and is responsible for the wealth gap and disparate quality of life between economic classes. Within the aristocracy, the brothers Evremonde and Monseigneur hold the most importance. These characters specifically make it so that they can never be held accountable for their crimes, such as theft, rape, and even murder. When the older of the brothers Evremonde “took [Madame Defarge’s…