Ce n'est pas une revolte, c'est une revolution!

"Your Majesty! They have stormed the Bastille!" exclaimed King Louis XVI's aide.
"Is this a revolt?" asked the king.
"No, sire, it's a revolution."

On July 14, 1789, a huge, angry mob marched to the Bastille, a high security prison that symbolized royal tyranny, searching for gun powder and prisoners that had been taken by the unpopular and detested King, Louis XVI (Time Life 1999). The flying rumors of attacks from the government and the biting truth of starvation were just too much for the fuming crowds. The Bastille had been prepared for over a week, anticipating about a hundred angry subjects. But nothing could have prepared the defenders for what they met that now famous day. Along the thick rock walls of the gargantuan fortress and between the towers were twelve more guns that were capable of launching 24-ounce case shots at any who dared to attack. However, the enraged middle class population of Paris was too......

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Title: Fall Of The Bastille
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