Bastille Day the 14th July in Paris, every year France celebrates one of the most famous events in Frech History, the Storming of the Bastille

Bastille was a hundred foot high prison, meant to be indestructible, but one afternoon the people of France stormed the Bastille, resulting in the death of one hundred and destroyed the prison completely.

The people in the Bastille were treated terribly, one example is Jean Jacques Calet with stale food and drink, improper furniture and left inadequate living spaces, and could be kept in solitary confinement

People in France were not as entitled to rights as we are, they could be sent to prison without trial etc.

At that time people in France lived under an absolute monarchy, meaning that they had to live under the power of the King, and he made all the decisions. The King was the law, and could accuse anyone of anything

One man acted against this, and he was taken away, to never see his family again

The Bastille had become a symbol of that feared in the political system. Until the Bastille was attacked by the mob.

The King had surrounded Paris with troops expected a bloody fight, and they had taken the

Jean Jacques Valet heard the fight begin and heard Viva Liberty”, but cannot be completely trusted, but it did show the excitement of the day

The Bastille had been surrounded by people, and the governor had torddered troops to fire at the crowd, and the people had begun a fight, troops had bought up a cannon, and the governer panicked and continued to open the draw bridge. And the people stormed

When the people stormed inside there was only seven people to their surprise, but the importance was that they had bought down a major symbol of the political system

In 1787, Arthur Young travelled around France, and published a book called the Tour of France in the years 1787, 1788 and 1789, when the French Revolution began and it shows what France was like before the Revolution

The church was immensely rich, memebers of the church were privileged and didn’t have to pay tax.

King Louis wasn’t a great leader, and was not very good and ruling the country

The Revolution began because the people were ready for change

The French Royalty had spent large sums of money on the American Revolution

By the late 1780’s France went broke, because of these spending’s, on the French Revolution, the luxuries that could not afford, because the nobles didn’t pay taxes etc.

Because of this and the growing price of bread, people had become angered

The King called an Estates-General for a meeting. With the different estates, they thought they could solve the problems. All he wanted is for them to sign an agreement for everyone to pay taxes

The Third Estate bought the matters into their own hands because they did not like the decisions of the King and they formed their own assembly, and meet at the Tennis Court as they had been locked out of the chamber

The National Gard was created and they said they would speak for all people

They created the Declaration of the Rights of Man, and summed up the ideals of the French Revolution, and is one of the most important documents ever created

At the Palace of Versailles, the people had stormed it because of the inequality they had

After the attack on the Versailles they had taken him back to Paris, and the King and his family were captured

The King was put on trial, and the charges piled up. He was sentenced to death. He was taken away to the guillotine and his head was chopped off

This started the Reign of Terror or “the Terror.” This was after the King was killed and the main revolutionaries had started to send many people to the guillotine

People who worked with the revolution were asked to arrest and report anyone they thought was guilty of anything against the leaders

The Terror bought the idea that one form of tyranny was swapped for another