Paris 14th 1789 storming of the bastille.

The bastille was a prison with walls 100 feet high.

Paris overcame the prison garrison and took over the bastille.
Paris destroyed it completely by dismantling it brick by brick.
Paris hated the bastilles because.
Joan Jett Calais was a man who experienced the bastille at first hand.
The battle for human rights began in 1789.
Before then France was an absolute monarchy.
All power was in the hands of one man the king.
The king was the law.
If the king wanted someone arrested all he had to do was wright a sealed
letter and the police did the rest.
Joe Shaklea had spoken out against the letter, then goy put in prison.
It was stories like Khalis that stud peoples hearts against the bastille.
It became a symbol of everything most feared in the French political
system
Until July 14 1789 when that symbol was attacked by the Paris mob
In 1787 an Englishmen called Aretha young came here to begin a journey
that would take him all over France
1789 is when the French people won the liberty of freedom
1789 is the year of the French revolution
In the 1780s the duke filled the arcades with shops and cafes
10th of august a mob of 20,000 attacked its weary and after a fierce battle
the king and his family were imprisoned
In September a republic was declared and the monarchy abolished
in December the king was put on trial in front of all elected deputies
All 693 deputies found him guilty none were against the sentence was
death
The Charles Dickens classic second revolution in France
From 1792 to 1794 16 thousand people were guilty in France
French men and women put to their death by their fellow country men
September 1792 a prison the concierge in central Paris
Inside a monthly collected of priests arrester crats royalists safe enough
under lock and key, they werent much of a threat
A mob of people killed everyone locked away
A thousand men and woman were massacred in just 5 days
1793 the convention set up the revolutionary tribunal to trial enemies of
the people
Supporters of the revolution were encouraged to report on their
neighbours the nitinol guard made the arrests
Back in 1789 in the first summer of the revolution the national convention
had passed the declaration of the rights of a man
Article 2 promised liberty, security and freedom from oppression
The soldiers massacred the whole population, 564 bodies
1789 85% of the population lived in small cut off communities
All men had to leave their families to join the army
July 27th 1794 Rosebeare died
November 1799 French army took over the government his name was
Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte became ruler and that was the end of the revolution