- Each night in late June thousands of people gathered to listen to revolutionary journalists and politicians.
- By 11th July Louis XVI had about 25,000 troops around Paris and Versailles.
- The deputies of the Estates-General expected Louis to use force to dissolve the assembly and arrest its leaders.
- Speakers called upon Parisians to take up arms against the Ancien Régime.
- A frantic search for muskets and ammunition began…
14th July 1789 - Storming the Bastille
- The search for weapons took them to Les Invalides where they took 28,000 muskets and 20 cannon.
- A subsequent search for gunpowder took them to the Bastille.
- The Bastille was a large prison fortress and a symbol of the king’s tyranny.
- The governor de Launay ordered his troops to fire on the crowd as they tried to enter, killing 98.
Parisians joined by a defecting army fought back angrily.
- De Launay was forced to surrender. He was murdered and then decapitated with his severed head paraded throughout Paris.
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