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Parisians take over the Bastille
Parisians take over the Bastille
(Paris, July 14, 1789) - Last month, over 800 angry Parisians assembled outside the Bastille. Multiple guards of the Bastille, were flabbergasted from just "the look in the Parisians eyes, so full of rage."
The Parisian mob wanted their voices to be heard. As they formed an army, the commander refused to open the gates, but he released terror on the crowd. "All hell broke lose" prison guard Damrion Buffe stated, when the mob broke their way through.
The mob attacked with fury; killing the commander and five guards. Also, they released a bunch of prisoners that were confined there.
Prior to this event, France under the old order, was separated into three social classes, or estates. The Church at the time had great benefits throughout Europe, but clergy still enjoyed their wealthy lives. The First Estate provided with some social programs: nuns, monks, priests running schools, hospitals, and orphanages.
The Second Estate was the nobility of French society. In the 1600s, Richelieu and Louis XIV had demolished the nobles' military reign, but in return, gave them other rights that was under royal control. Rights could have been between jobs in government to the Church. Many nobles; however; lived distant from power, hated absolutism, and the royal bureaucracy.
The Third Estate was the most diverse class. At the top was the middle class, but the bottom maintained peasants. Even lower were the urban workers which in order to survive, some turned to crime. These estates made people question about who really has great privileges.
A major factor as to why the Parisians revolted was, the financial debt that Louis CIV had left France with. People did not agree with how the government's income from taxes went to paying the debt.
A new leader emerged, Louis XVI; although, many royal court members say, "he was weak and indecisive but, the chose wisely to get a financial advisor." His advisor was Jacques Necker, whom did not work out so well and was dismissed.
As problems arose, the wealthy and powerful classes forced the king to accept the Estates-General. They hoped that they could bring the absolute monarch under the control of the nobles and finally get their own privileges.
In hard times, Camille Desmoulins would give speeches to soothe peoples' minds. He was a French revolutionary leader and journalist that spoke to Parisians. In one of his speeches "Better to Die than not Live Free," he preaches " In a democracy, tho the people may be deceived, yet they at least love virtue. It is merit that they believe they put in power as substitutes for the rascals who are the very essence of monarchies."
As the year of 1788 was coming to an end, France was very short of becoming bankrupt. Already bread riots were increasing and nobles were afraid of taxes. Due to this, Louis XVI told the Estates-General to meet at Versailles the following year.
Things like "bloodsuckers of the nation who drink the tears of the unfortunate from goblets of gold," were what people wrote in the cahiers, or notebooks. People were starting to lose themselves.
Delegates from the Third Estate were elected for the Estates-General. After weeks of debating, the Third Estate decided on June 1789, they were the representatives of the people of France, so they declared themselves the National Assembly.
The National Assembly swore "never to separate and to meet wherever the circumstances might require until we have established a sound and just constitution." When clergy and nobles joined the Assembly, Louis XVI miserably accepted it; however, royal groups gathered in Paris and spread rumors that the king was planning on destroying the National Assembly.
This created massive frustration for Parisians. Eventually, they wanted the best for them, so they took over the Bastille.
The Bastille was a symbol to the people of France because it denied years of abuse by the monarchy. The storming of the Bastille was a real problem for Louis XVI.
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