Approximately 800 people on the king’s side were killed and Paris was put in the hands of the revolutionaries.
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The Bastille had long been a symbol of tyranny as a place for the imprisonment of people without trial, but when it was stormed it only contained seven prisoners.
The radical French journalist Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday.
King Louis XVI of France and his family were caught attempting to escape Paris during the Flight to Varennes.
Nicolas Jacques Pelletier, a French highwayman who was found guilty of killing a man during one of his robberies, was the first victim of the French decapitation machine.
Napoleon’s coronation as Emperor of the French was a lavish affair that referenced various elements of Carolingian tradition, the ancien régime, and the French Revolution.
The National Constituent Assembly of France adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
The Louvre museum in Paris opened to the public in the former palace of the French royal family.
La Marseillaise was composed by a French army officer and was originally called the ‘War Song for the Army of the Rhine’ with the aim of rallying soldiers fighting in Strasbourg during the French Revolutionary Wars.
The morning of the 14th July 1789 saw the beginning of the French Revolution when Parisian revolutionaries stormed the Bastille, a large fortress, prison and ammunition store that symbolised everything that was wrong with the monarchy.
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