Reasons for Fall of Bastille?
A) Every year on July 14th, France celebrates Bastille Day to commemorate the storming of the
Bastille, an event that contributed to the conception of the term "revolution" as we know it today.
Eastern Paris was dominated by the Bastille, a medieval fortress-prison. There were reports of
horrific tortures being carried out in its dungeons on the adversaries and victims of royal power for
generations as they were transported there in shuttered coaches. Parisians assaulted the stronghold
on July 14, 1789, with reckless daring. They believed their aristocratic adversaries were prepared to
destroy the city in order to preserve their privilege, and they were furious at them.
Men leaped onto rooftops to break drawbridge chains, while others disassembled guns and carried
them over barriers by hand. Upon hearing that the little garrison had capitulated and was about to
be overrun, royal troops in other parts of the city gathered their things and left, their superiors
refusing to put their devotion to the victorious populace to the test.
The storm of rebellion that swept across France in the summer of 1789 peaked with the storming of
the Bastille, events that gave rise to the very concept of "revolution" as we know it today. The
attempt to maintain an absolute monarchy had failed, therefore it was a full upheaval of the
previous system. In one of the greatest ironies of our time, that monarchy had bankrupted itself
paying for a liberation struggle halfway across the world. When the French king Louis XVI deployed
his troops and fleets to battle the British Empire in 1778, heeding proponents of American
independence, he believed he was giving a death-blow to a long-standing opponent. In fact, he
started a process that would increase Britain's dominance in the world beyond what it had been
prior to the United States' independence. But he would also instigate, against his choice, a culture of
rights and equality with a contentious past that would last right up to the present. the Bastille's
downfall, which took place on July 14, 1789. A permanent committee to maintain order had been
established in Paris as a result of the heightened mob violence. Following a stirring speech by
Camille Desmoulins on July 12, 1789, this organized group of citizens stormed the Bastille after
breaking into a royal arsenal, seizing weapons.
The only feeble attempt at establishing one - a legislative and consultative body that was supposed
to represent the three different classes, or "estates," of French subjects - had not met since 1614.
Louis XVI, who was a relatively weak king, had no legislative or executive bodies to help him deal
with the situation. Louis summoned the members of this group, known as the Estates General, to
Paris in the summer of 1789 while his realm was in a terrible situation. However, because of their
conservatism, not much could be done. The clergy made up the First Estate and had no interest in
changing their long-standing ability to avoid paying taxes, while the nobles made up the Second
Estate and had a vested interest in opposing reform. The Third Estate, on the other hand, stood for
everyone else—the greater than 90% of the populace that paid the bulk of taxes despite being in
poverty.
A) Every year on July 14th, France celebrates Bastille Day to commemorate the storming of the
Bastille, an event that contributed to the conception of the term "revolution" as we know it today.
Eastern Paris was dominated by the Bastille, a medieval fortress-prison. There were reports of
horrific tortures being carried out in its dungeons on the adversaries and victims of royal power for
generations as they were transported there in shuttered coaches. Parisians assaulted the stronghold
on July 14, 1789, with reckless daring. They believed their aristocratic adversaries were prepared to
destroy the city in order to preserve their privilege, and they were furious at them.
Men leaped onto rooftops to break drawbridge chains, while others disassembled guns and carried
them over barriers by hand. Upon hearing that the little garrison had capitulated and was about to
be overrun, royal troops in other parts of the city gathered their things and left, their superiors
refusing to put their devotion to the victorious populace to the test.
The storm of rebellion that swept across France in the summer of 1789 peaked with the storming of
the Bastille, events that gave rise to the very concept of "revolution" as we know it today. The
attempt to maintain an absolute monarchy had failed, therefore it was a full upheaval of the
previous system. In one of the greatest ironies of our time, that monarchy had bankrupted itself
paying for a liberation struggle halfway across the world. When the French king Louis XVI deployed
his troops and fleets to battle the British Empire in 1778, heeding proponents of American
independence, he believed he was giving a death-blow to a long-standing opponent. In fact, he
started a process that would increase Britain's dominance in the world beyond what it had been
prior to the United States' independence. But he would also instigate, against his choice, a culture of
rights and equality with a contentious past that would last right up to the present. the Bastille's
downfall, which took place on July 14, 1789. A permanent committee to maintain order had been
established in Paris as a result of the heightened mob violence. Following a stirring speech by
Camille Desmoulins on July 12, 1789, this organized group of citizens stormed the Bastille after
breaking into a royal arsenal, seizing weapons.
The only feeble attempt at establishing one - a legislative and consultative body that was supposed
to represent the three different classes, or "estates," of French subjects - had not met since 1614.
Louis XVI, who was a relatively weak king, had no legislative or executive bodies to help him deal
with the situation. Louis summoned the members of this group, known as the Estates General, to
Paris in the summer of 1789 while his realm was in a terrible situation. However, because of their
conservatism, not much could be done. The clergy made up the First Estate and had no interest in
changing their long-standing ability to avoid paying taxes, while the nobles made up the Second
Estate and had a vested interest in opposing reform. The Third Estate, on the other hand, stood for
everyone else—the greater than 90% of the populace that paid the bulk of taxes despite being in
poverty.
