This dismissal led to the Third Estate believing that it was “an opening of a royal offensive against the National Constituent Assembly and the city” (pg. 556). This led to the start of the revolution where extremely large crowds stormed the Bastille. “Most of them small shoe keepers, tradespeople, artisans, and wage earners, marched to the Bastille to get weapons for the militia” (pg. 556). This act was the first of many to come in this revolution and it resulted in citizens declaring themselves as their own political
This dismissal led to the Third Estate believing that it was “an opening of a royal offensive against the National Constituent Assembly and the city” (pg. 556). This led to the start of the revolution where extremely large crowds stormed the Bastille. “Most of them small shoe keepers, tradespeople, artisans, and wage earners, marched to the Bastille to get weapons for the militia” (pg. 556). This act was the first of many to come in this revolution and it resulted in citizens declaring themselves as their own political