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The Bastille was a fortress located in Paris. This Fortress served as a prison, a prison that they say was despised as a symbol of despotism. There had also been stories going around for the prisons use of cruelty and torture. The Parisian also saw the Bastille as the governments harsh policies. It was also to have been believed that they were storing armaments to over through the National Assembly.

The national assembly had formed themselves not even a month before it fell. It was formed by the members of the third estate though some joined from the first and second estate. They wanted to have an equitable voice in the French Revolution. Then King Louis XVI requested that all first and second class memberís of the estate joined. That was when the old estates general dissolved.

When word got out that the king had his troops encircle the city of Paris the city had looked at the Bastille. The Bastille to them had been a symbol of the kings tyranny, housed prisoners and armaments. On the morning of July 14 1789 a crowd formed and gathered around the prison. As they were moving forward toward the Bastille the Warden gave orders for his troops to fire. Almost 100 Parisians were killed. The French guard arrived on the scene and threaten to bombard the Bastille. The warden surrendered after he had been promised no harms would come to him or his troops. Though the angry mob(crowd) killed him and lots of his troops. The king then withdrew his troops and the National Assembly continued moderate reforms. That was all until Robesppiere moved the revolution into a radical stage.