In 1789, a Parisian mob seized a fortress and ignited the French Revolution
The fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, transformed a local riot into a national revolution that permanently dismantled the absolute power of the French monarchy.
On a sweltering July morning in 1789, an angry Parisian mob surrounded the Bastille, a medieval fortress and state prison. While they sought the gunpowder stored inside, the building itself represented the king's tyranny. The crowd eventually breached the walls, an act of defiance that signaled the beginning of the French Revolution.
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