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What event took place on the morning of 14 July 1789 in Paris?
Why did the citizens of Paris decide to form a peoples' militia on that morning?
Rumors spread that the king would order the army to open fire upon the citizens.
The Bastille was a revered symbol of power during this time.
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The prisoners released from the Bastille numbered only ______.
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The Storming of the Bastille
- On July 14, 1789, Paris was in a state of alarm due to the king's command to move troops into the city.
- Rumors spread that the king would order the army to open fire on citizens, prompting 7,000 men and women to gather at the town hall and form a people's militia.
- The militia broke into government buildings to search for arms, leading to the storming of the Bastille, a fortress-prison, in search of hoarded ammunition.
- The commander of the Bastille was killed in the armed fight, and the seven prisoners were released, symbolizing the hated despotic power of the king.
- The Bastille was demolished, and its stone fragments were sold as souvenirs of its destruction.
- The days that followed saw more rioting in Paris and the countryside, primarily driven by protests against the high price of bread.
- Historians later viewed the Storming of the Bastille as the beginning of a chain of events leading to the execution of the king in France.
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Learn about the events of July 14, 1789, when the people of Paris rose up against the king's troops and stormed the Bastille, marking the beginning of the French Revolution.
