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.

WHAT WAS THE BASTILLE?

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

WHY IS THE 14TH JULY IMPORTANT IN FRANCE?

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.

WHAT HAPPENED?

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.

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

THE EFFECT OF THE FALL 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.

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