about ancient wars

2.  The Bastille was a prison
in Paris where the king
kept his political
prisoners.
 The Parisians believed it
to be a horrible place
where many innocent
Frenchman were forced to
suffer.

6.  Every year in France,
there is a public holiday
on the 14th July.
There are feasts,
parties, firework
displays, and concerts as
the French remember the
most important moment
of the French Revolution

7.  Over 60,000 workers
stormed the prison.
Chaos broke out and
some were killed.
 The workers captured
the prison governor and
killed him.
 It is uncertain how
many prisoners were
released at the time they
claimed it was hundreds
but the prison was quite
small.

9.  The storming of Bastille
showed that the King no
longer had authority.
 Riots broke out across the
city and no-one listened to
the King . The people of
France had spoken.

13.  More significant were the long-range effects of the fall of
the Bastille. The events resulted in the first emigration of the
reactionary nobles, who encouraged their host states to
intervene militarily against the Revolution. Politically, it
completed the transfer of the King’s remaining authority to the
National Assembly. Also, some of the larger cities throughout
France, such as Lyons, Bordeaux, and Marseilles, imitated the
example of Paris by establishing new city governments,
appointing citizens guards, and capturing local bastilles.
Socially, the fall of the Bastille encouraged the spread of
peasant unrest, the so-called Great fear, thereby paving the
way for the formal abolition of feudalism in an all-night
session of the National Assembly 4-5, gave rise to extensive
social revolution by early August, 1789.