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    The storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 marked the beginning of the French Revolution. While the Bastille prison held only seven prisoners at the time, it was a symbol of the oppressive monarchy and contained gunpowder stores that the revolutionaries sought to arm themselves against the king's forces. After the governor refused to surrender the ammunition, an angry mob attacked and seized the Bastille, decapitating the governor, whose head they paraded through the streets on a pike. Though ostensibly about gaining weapons, the storming demonstrated the people's rising frustrations with the absolute monarchy and served as a pivotal early event in their overthrow of the king's rule.

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    The storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 marked the beginning of the French Revolution. While the Bastille prison held only seven prisoners at the time, it was a symbol of the oppressive monarchy and contained gunpowder stores that the revolutionaries sought to arm themselves against the king's forces. After the governor refused to surrender the ammunition, an angry mob attacked and seized the Bastille, decapitating the governor, whose head they paraded through the streets on a pike. Though ostensibly about gaining weapons, the storming demonstrated the people's rising frustrations with the absolute monarchy and served as a pivotal early event in their overthrow of the king's rule.

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    The storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 marked the beginning of the French Revolution. While the Bastille prison held only seven prisoners at the time, it was a symbol of the oppressive monarchy and contained gunpowder stores that the revolutionaries sought to arm themselves against the king's forces. After the governor refused to surrender the ammunition, an angry mob attacked and seized the Bastille, decapitating the governor, whose head they paraded through the streets on a pike. Though ostensibly about gaining weapons, the storming demonstrated the people's rising frustrations with the absolute monarchy and served as a pivotal early event in their overthrow of the king's rule.

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    The event was the culmination of multiple different causes. Although the catalyst for the
    attack was the dismissal of popular Genevan commoner Jacques Necker (1732-1804) from
    the ministry of King Louis XVI of France (r. 1774-1792), societal imbalances and financial
    hardships had been pressuring the French people for years. The perceived efforts of the
    king to undo the work of the Estates-General of 1789, which had resulted in the formation of
    a National Assembly dominated by members of the Third Estate, combined with rising bread
    prices to send the people of Paris into a panic, causing them to lash out against symbols of
    royal authority, including the ever-looming Bastille.
    From: World History Encyclopedia

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    The Third Estate had recently made demands of the king and had demanded that the
    commoners have more of a say in government. They were worried that he was preparing the
    French army for an attack. In order to arm themselves, they first took over the Hotel des
    Invalides in Paris where they were able to get muskets. However, they didn't have
    gunpowder.

    The Bastille was rumored to be full of political prisoners and was a symbol to many of the
    oppression of the king. It also had stores of gunpowder that the revolutionaries needed for
    their weapons.
    From: ducksters.com

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    From: British Library Newspaper Archive

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    A mediaeval fortress, the Bastille’s eight 30-metre-high towers, dominated the Parisian
    skyline. When the prison was attacked it actually held only seven prisoners, but the mob had
    not gathered for them: it had come to demand the huge ammunition stores held within the
    prison walls. When the prison governor refused to comply, the mob charged and, after a
    violent battle, eventually took hold of the building. The governor was seized and killed, his
    head carried round the streets on a spike. The storming of the Bastille symbolically marked
    the beginning of the French Revolution, in which the monarchy was overthrown and a
    republic set up based on the ideas of ‘Liberté, égalité, fraternité’ (the French for liberty,
    equality and brotherhood). In France, the ‘storming of the Bastille’ is still celebrated each
    year by a national holiday.
    From: bl.uk

    Source E

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