anyone know anything on the storming of the bastille???

It marked the beginning of an open revolution against Louis XVI. The banishment of Jacques Necker, Louis XVI's finance minister who had been sympathic towards the common people angered the Parisians. A large crowd passed through the streets and eventually attacked the Bastille which had only 7 prisoners at the time. The people were mainly trying to gather the arms and ammunition that was stored there. It happened on July 14th 1789.

Well they stormed it innit.

The symbol of the revolution. A mere result. Dude, check all the documentaries made, the BBC website ect, wikipedia... You'll find so much. I suggest the History Channel, absolute gold mine. They had a series on this exact event a while back.

The guys inside surrendered, they did shoot a couple times, but they didn't wanna make a mess. The revolutionaries got all excited and the french revolution was underway!

Hooray... Not even a decade later a dictator was ruling France, after which kings where restored all the way to 1871 and the defeat of Napoleon III (nephew of the other psychopath). And then vive la Republique, it was to last until the Germans came over and Petain turned France once again into a dictatorship, but that's another story.

The Bastille is a symbol, just like when the Saddam statue came down, the Berlin wall came down and a guy stood in front of a tank in Tien-an-men Square (might not be the right spelling, sorry).

I made this answer a bit more fun since I think history is so great you should definetely search yourself all these informations. It makes you smart, not asking people to answer for you, that makes you lazy and uninteresting.

Storming of the Bastille sounds like Franz Ferdinands latest album. It's what the French did during the Revolution and what we should do to the UK Houses of Parliament now they've gone a bridge too far.

It happened on the 14th July 1789.

Only a few prisoners were in the prison at the time.

It happened because Jaques Necker was dismissed by King Louis XVI.

Yes and soon afterwards there followed the 'terror' when thousands of French aristos and upper class filth had their heads cut off in the Plas de la Revolution [now called Plas de la Concorde] in Paris.

vive la Revolution

vive la Republique

vive la France

It signified the beginning of the French Revolution.

nope sorry

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