came to the bridges which would allow them into the main part of the building but couldn’t get them down. They ordered Markus de Launay to lower the bridges and he refused. Eventually he tried to rea-son with them by trying to make a deal. The offer was that Launay would lower the bridges in exchange for the safety of himself and his soldiers. The mob re-fused this offer and after while, Launay lowered the bridges anyway. Markus de Launay and his men were captured and drug through the streets like trash. Many of the Bastille’s guards were decapitated when this happened. Now that the commoners had conquered the Bastille, they set their sights for Versailles and the king himself.

On July 14, 1789, yester-day, a starving mob con-

sisting of over 300 angry common men and women attacked the Bastille. The large force of workmen and peasants assaulted the fortress in search of gun-powder and intending to free prisoners locked up by King Louis XVI. The Bastille had been prepared for an attack for over a week. Rumors spread throughout Paris of the citizen’s rage. A fatal flaw in the prepara-tion of the Bastille was that they didn’t expect such a large crowd and had been ready for only about one hundred attackers. On July 7, Switzerland sent 32 Swiss soldiers led by Lieutenant Deflue to aid Markus de Launay, the governor of the Bastille. At 3 O’clock the assault began. Three

hundred guards had left their post earlier that day in fear of what was to come. When the mob first arrived, the soldiers below surren-dered to the angry crowd but soldiers above didn’t know this. Soldiers on the

platform, unaware of the surrender, opened fire. This turned the humane mob into animals and they started killing ruthlessly. The raging common folk of Paris easily broke into the arsenal to bear arms and led a path of destruction through the first obstacles of the fortress. They finally

Battle at Bastille By: Andy Ebelhar

Inside this issue:

The Stabbing of Marat 2

Napoleon Bonaparte 2

Execution of Children 2

Lifestyles of Louis XVI & 3

Collaborative: Cartoons 4

Work Cited 5

Inside Story 6

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June 3rd, 1785

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The Reign of Terror By: James Brown

Around 40,000 people lost their lives in the name of the Revolution. During the “reign of terror,” there was a device used called the “guillotine.” The guillotine

was also known as the “National Razor.” The guil-lotine was a device de-signed for carrying out executions by decapitation. The National Razor was

used during the revolution to quickly and painlessly kill those who refused to follow the laws or orders of the Revolution. Those that had done so were known as the “enemies of the Revolu-tion.” If the people didn’t act positive about the Revolu-tion they were taken to the National Razor to be exe-cuted. There were “secret agents” sent out to watch everyone to make sure they were continuously acting positive about the Revolu-tion. You would not know who these secret agents were because they would look like your average eve-ryday pedestrian.

The Stabbing of Marat By: Lauren Drury

country and military with money to fight against Great Britain. A short year after he made this deal, he was named emperor of France.

In 1805, just a year after being named em-peror, Napoleon lost the major naval Battle of

Trafalgar when his fleet was split in half. After leading an attack on Russia in 1812, Napo-leon and his army were defeated in the Battle of Na-

tions by a force that consisted of the Prussians, Russians, Brit-ain’s, Sweden’s, and Austrians. After this battle, Paris finally fell to its enemies in March of 1814. When Paris fell, Napoleon was exiled to the island of Elba, where he had no military power, but still managed to have a bit of political power.

After being allowed to return to France, Napoleon tried to gain military control but was silenced by another attack by his enemies. This time he was exiled to the island of St. Helena, were he spent the rest of his life and died in 1821 at the age of 52.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon made the hand in the shirt popu-lar in his time.

Young Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte By: Logan Nevitt Napoleon Bonaparte was a French general and soon after was the emperor of France. His military cunning as well as his political power made him a strong asset to France in the late 1700s to the early 1800s. Napoleons actions brought France out of a slump, but towards the end of his reign he sent it spiraling back down-wards. This dictator struck fear into his ene-mies and provided comfort to his allies.

Napoleon was born on the Mediterranean island of Corsica in the year 1769. At the age of nine, young Napoleon was sent off to military camp. After completing his military camp at the age of 16, Napoleon served on the French military until he was given command of it while in Italy in 1794. As general, he defeated the Austrians in 1800. Napoleon decided that in 1803, he would sell the Louisiana territory to Thomas Jefferson; who was serving as the American president at the time. He made this deal to the Americans for fifteen million dollars so he could supply his

Marat was known for his opinion-ated stories. His powerful words contributed to many deaths in France, including his self. Later on, he was assassinated while signing a petition. Charlotte Cor-day, a royalist sympathizer, had came to him with a petition to sign. Marat had a very persistant skin disease, and was taking his usual bath. While Marat started to sign the petition, Charlotte had pulled a knife from her brodice and stabbed him. She planned to kill Marat at the Bastille Day Parade, but she had to go into his home because the festivities had been cancelled for July 14th. She wanted to kill Marat in hopes that it saves people's lives. She

knew how powerful Marat's words were to others and sooner or later, taking their lives.

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Children often run about search-ing for scraps of leftover food. But many times they end up

stealing. They go on thinking that such a tiny little bread crumb could be stolen without any no-tice. They don’t know that it is not tolerable. So, when our children run away just trying to escape

possible imprisonment, there are few chances that they can get away with it. We as citizens of France, alone to pay the full price of taxes till our death; all could be presumed the next avail-

able victim of wrongful prosecu-tion and execution for nothing. We barely have even a single coin to purchase bread with. But on top of all these troublesome conflicts are the forsaken doom….of the Guillotine.

I fear this is coming to no possible lighted path-way of an end to this devouring chaotic night-

mare. We all live in this dreadful gen-eration of so much guilt, hatred, horror, and DEATH. As for our children, the same life and blunt criticism is already fore-told in their fu tur es o f peasants or

bourgeoisies’. Please help us stop this madness of addiction to bloodshed and gore. This should be an abomination to the Holy Lord, God help us all; help our children survive this unorganized country.

The Execution of Children By: Stephanie Quiggins

tasteful robes. Most royals of King Louis XVI wear the usual coats, waistcoats, and “breeches”. They wear long, powdered wigs; brushed from the front to the back and tied with a black ribbon.

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heeled leather shoes with shoe buckles and silk or wool stockings are defi-nitely in with boys right now. (So ladies be on the lookout!) For non-royal or peasant women the more typical fashion is possibly the usual che-mise which is a nightgown-like un-dergarment usually made of white linen.

It may show a little above the bodice (A women’s vest, especially a laced vest worn as an outer garment) or through the sleeves, but it is nor-mally hidden. It is typically worn with a partlet (a garment gathered to a neckband) that filled in the part of a woman’s chest above the bodice; the common style of chemise with a

drawstring neck. For non-royal or peas-ant man is nothing you wouldn’t have thought of. They wear the same old thing, breeches, loose shirt, sometimes a coat, and of course shoes. Not leather shoes though.

Lifestyle of Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette By: Sabrina Lanham

Fashion now days are very tasteful, very elegant; Depending on your social status or estate actually. Let’s start with the women, like Marie Antoinette. Her style is

more elegant, very classy dresses and hair styles than the typical woman. S h e w e a r s f a s h -

ionably heavy dresses supported by old-style, extra-long, extra-rigid corsets, accompanied by thick rouge and stiff curls. Sounds painful, but some-times pain is beauty. Fashions of the King were also very elegant. Not that man really cares for fash-ion as much. Louis XVI wears long robes,

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Work Cited:

1.. The Batt;le at Bastille

"Storming of the Bastille." library.thinkquest.org. N.p.. Web. 30 Jan 2013. <http://library.thinkquest.org/C006257/r e v o l u t i o n /storming_of_bastille.shtml>.

Beck, Roger, Linda Black, Larry Krieger, Naylor Phillip, and Sha-baka Dahia. Modern World His-tory. Patterns of Interaction. McDougal Littell, 2007. Print.

"Bastille Day-July 14th, 1789." bastille-day.com. N.p., 12 Jul 2012. Web. 30 Jan 2013. <http://b a s t i l l e - d a y . c o m / h i s t o r y /Storming-Of-The-Bastille-July-14-1789>.

2 . The Reign of Terror

McDougal Litell Modern World History book

3 . The Stabbing of Marat

World History Class.

4. Napoleon Bonaparte

Book, Modern World History Patterns of Interaction

BBC History

http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/People/napoleon.html

5. The Execution of the Children

Worksheet page -78D– 2nd paragraph.

6. Fashion and society of the French Revolution/Lifestyle of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

http://www.lepg.org/women.htm

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/fashion/2006/11/the_queens_closet.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1775%E2%80%931795_in_fashion

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