MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Question
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What was the main goal behind Parisians storming the Bastille on July 14th, 1789?
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To free prisoners sympathetic to the revolution from the Bastille’s prison
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The mob of Parisians feared that King Louis was going to have mercenaries attack Paris, and attacked the Bastille in order to get access to the weapons inside
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Parisians loyal to the king organized themselves to free King Louis from the Bastille’s prison
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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.
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