The Storming Of The Bastille

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I wake up in the morning of July 14, 1789. The news had spread, that the state prison Bastille was attacked by an angry mob including my very own father! Bastille represented the royal authority in the center of Paris. However, the gun powders were stored inside the Bastille. The storming of the Bastille, was the beginning of the French Revolution, in which the monarchy was overthrown. However, this also led to the growth of democracy, since it help push along the French Revolution and people had weapons now to go against the absurd government.

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