Chapter – 1
The French Revolution
, Introduction
• On the morning of 14 July 1789, the city of Paris was in a state
alarm.
• The king had commanded troops to move into the city.
• Rumours spread that he would soon order the army to open
upon the citizens.
• Some 7,000 men and women gathered in front of the town hall
decided to form a peoples’ militia.
• They broke into a number of government buildings in search of arm
,• Finally, a group of several hundred people marched towards
eastern part of the city and stormed the fortress-prison, the Bast
where they hoped to find hoarded ammunition.
, • In the armed fight that followed, the commander of the Bastille
killed and the prisoners released though there were only seven
them.
• Yet the Bastille was hated by all, because it stood for the desp
power of the king.
• The fortress was demolished and its stone fragments were sold in
markets to all those who wished to keep a souvenir of its destruct
(the remembrance of the demolition of the Bastille by the Fre
people).
The French Revolution
, Introduction
• On the morning of 14 July 1789, the city of Paris was in a state
alarm.
• The king had commanded troops to move into the city.
• Rumours spread that he would soon order the army to open
upon the citizens.
• Some 7,000 men and women gathered in front of the town hall
decided to form a peoples’ militia.
• They broke into a number of government buildings in search of arm
,• Finally, a group of several hundred people marched towards
eastern part of the city and stormed the fortress-prison, the Bast
where they hoped to find hoarded ammunition.
, • In the armed fight that followed, the commander of the Bastille
killed and the prisoners released though there were only seven
them.
• Yet the Bastille was hated by all, because it stood for the desp
power of the king.
• The fortress was demolished and its stone fragments were sold in
markets to all those who wished to keep a souvenir of its destruct
(the remembrance of the demolition of the Bastille by the Fre
people).
