Who stormed the bastille the fortress prison during the last year of the 18th century?
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Answer:
the frustrated french citizens
Answer:
The people of France belonging to the Third Estate
Explanation:
The people wanted to end the absolutist monarchy.
The Royal treasury was empty and the King Louise 16 wanted to increase taxes.
The Eastates General meeting (5 May, 1789)had failed and the National Assembly(comprising The Third Estate people) was constituted and its memebers had taken oath at the Tennis Court to draw a constutution (20 June, 1789)
The King dissolved the assembly on 23 June declaring Third Estate illegal.
All such events were making people go against the King. The King tried to resort to force. The Royal troops were seen moving towards Paris and the rumour spread that King was goimg to use force to control any uprising against him. And this news of troops movement enraged people amd they came out, mobbed and stormed the Bastille on 14 July, 1789.
Thus, the French Revolution began with this storming of the Bastille, the Prison of Paris.