Event

Storming of the Bastille

Attack by the Paris crowd on the royal fortress-prison on 14 July 1789.

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Estates-General of 1789 According to Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution Scholarship & press 2
The glossary says this of the National Assembly, the name the Third Estate took on 17 June 1789.

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Bastille (glossary), Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (George Mason University) and American Social History Project (CUNY). Scholarship & press
It was seized by the Paris crowd on 14 July 1789
National Assembly (glossary), Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (George Mason University) and American Social History Project (CUNY). Scholarship & press
just a fortnight later the people of Paris had to rally to save it, ending with the 14 July assault on the Bastille.

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