Storming of the bastille

In July 14, 1789 , the French populous exercised first its domination on the government. The Bastille was an old fortress that served like a state prison. The French people despised the Bastille because it represented all that they hated about the French government: it was a symbol of the unlimited power of the government, and was rumoured to be so by the stories of the torments and the beatings that prisoners received. In that day in July, …

…the veterans they were dead persons, as well as the president of the Bastilleand the mayor of Paris. The heads of these two men were placed in the end of sticks and they paraded around the city. When King Louis XVI was position on the alert about the place in the Hem for Duke of Rochefoucauld Liancourt of The, he exclaimed, "Is this a revolt?! ", but the Duke answered, "No sire, it is a revolution."