GK
WORLD HISTORY
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Bread Riots
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Storming of the Bastille prison by the Third Estate
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economic conditions
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execution of Louis XVI
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Detailed explanation-1: -Bastille Day celebrates the rebellion that ignited the French Revolution . On July 14, 1789, thousands of Parisians stormed the prison to protest King Louis XVI’s abuse of power. It was a defining moment of the revolution that toppled the monarchy.
Detailed explanation-2: -Why did they storm the Bastille? 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.
Detailed explanation-3: -On July 14, 1789, fears that King Louis XVI was about to arrest France’s newly constituted National Assembly led a crowd of Parisians to successfully besiege the Bastille, an old fortress that had been used since 1659 as a state prison.
Detailed explanation-4: -The attack by the third estate on the Bastille State prison (14th July 1789) and setting free the prisoners was the incident which sparked the French Revolution.