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…

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 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…

another. The French revolution was a remarkable subject and it was in the recall of nation, in it noble citizens were unkind and wicked towards the common man. Therefore, such mistreatment gives confidence to citizens to become revolutionaries. The theme is not wrong and not simple, even though this idea originally describes to show all the evil side of revolution. This violent revolutionaries activity spread in almost all of the Europe in start of nineteen century, while middle-class people…

One may have picked Jacques or Louis, but theres a better character. His name is Pierre Joseph Aumont. He is a prestigious character who is very helpful to the protagonist. He was chosen for this paper because he is a wise man, and knows what his duties are and when and when he is not needed. Readers may like Pierre's helpfulness, but some may not like him because he leaves Jacques, the protagonist, later in the story. As an overall though, Pierre Joseph is a wise, smart,holy, and helpful man. …

authority. This quote demonstrates how only one person is attempting to stand up against authority while everyone else is oblivious to the turmoil. Though Antigone has the willpower and courage to stand up against authority, it is not considered a revolution because no one else is trying to help her. She is on her own without anyone or anything to help her. On the other hand, the French Revolution had citizens storming into the Bastille and tearing apart the prison brick by brick,”On July 14,…

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…

When it comes to the subject of fate, Charles Dickens, writer of the novel A Tale Of Two Cities, explains it in a way anyone could understand it. The novel takes place in both England and France, before and leading into the French Revolution. This novel focuses on the French fighting against the revolutionaries in attempt to salvage their lives. When push comes to shove, one has to choose, for better or for worse, how their fate will turn out. Through examining Charles Darnay leaving France for…

In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens wrote a book around the time of the events of the French Revolution as well as, what it was like to live in Paris. The book depicts many real life events with fictional characters that present the conditions under which they endured. In the 7th installment, "Monseigneur in Town", the audience can have a little taste of how the book interprets high powers during the 1800's such as the Marquis St. Evremonde. This paper will discuss the character of St.…