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The kings economic minister, Jacques Necker, would like the 1. and 2. position to pay their part of the expensive by tax.
The 2 positions didn’t like the idea and want to have leadership and denied to pay tax. And the third position would like
to have the right of voting, cause then they hat the majority. But 1. and 2. position dropped the discussions with 3. position,
and that made the normal people (who were the 3. position) very angry. They sweared, that they would get the French monarchy down,
and make a republic instead. They made a revolution.
On july 14th 1789, the people began a march to the prison-castle. The senate hid a lot of ammo and weapons there. For the normal
Parisian, the Bastille was a symbol of everything, that was bad about the Kings parliament. The high walls dominated the poor quarters
of the city, and many unlucky inhabitants were jailed in the deep, large dungeons. A large crowd of angry people were meeting in
front of the Bastille. They only wanted to destroy the Bastille, and forget about the hated symbol. There were many nervous soldiers
in the Bastille, and they began to shoot at the crowd, the angry people attacked the castle. They threw themselves at the gate. It didn’t
work, but a few minutes later, some infantries from the army joined them. They brought 5 canons and a lot of guns. The commandant
surrendered, and they stormed the Bastille. The soldiers were shot, and the commandant lost his head. The Bastille was defeated.
2 days after the fall of the Bastille, the French minister of war informed King Louis, that the army would not be loyal to him. That
was a decisive moment of the revolution. King Louis and the rest of the 1. position could not stop the revolution with power, as usual.
In stead, King Louis had to made a cease-fire with the national assembly. They still wanted a king – just with less power - but the king
and his followers would only make deals if they had to. That made the national assembly angry, and they were more and more distrustful.
Angry over the kings carriage, count de Mirabeau said: “I’m a mad dog, whose bite will kill all tyranny and privilege”
Jean Baptiste Humbert wrote a letter to the Bastille.
Read it here
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