USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -This instead turned into a protest about conditions in France. On July 14 1789 the Paris mob, hungry due to a lack of food from poor harvests, upset at the conditions of their lives and annoyed with their King and Government, stormed the Bastille fortress (a prison).

Detailed explanation-2: -The storming of the Bastille signaled the first victory of the people of Paris against a symbol of the “Ancien Régime” (Old Regime). Indeed, the edifice was razed to the ground in the months that followed.

Detailed explanation-3: -On 14 July 1789, a state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy’s dictatorial rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed.

Detailed explanation-4: -As the famous anecdote goes, when Louis XVI asked if the attack on the Bastille had been a revolt, the Duke de La Rochefoucauld responded, “No, sire, it is a revolution” (Schama, 420).