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14th July 1789: Storming of the Bastille
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2018-07-13 21:05:28
Description: The morning of the 14th July 1789 saw the beginning of the French Revolution when Parisian revolutionaries stormed the Bastille, a large fortress, prison and ammunition store that symbolised everything that was wrong with the monarchy. Despite having earlier legalised the National Assembly following the Tennis Court Oath, King Louis XVI had ordered royal troops to surround Paris and had dismissed his popular finance minister, Jacques Necker. These actions led the Parisian crowd to believe that Louis was preparing to overthrow the Assembly. Although the Bastille had been a symbol of tyranny for its imprisonment of people without trial, when ...
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