Why did people of Paris marched towards Bastille fortress?
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Storming the Bastille
They demanded that the military leader of the Bastille, Governor de Launay, surrender the prison and hand over the gunpowder. He refused. As negotiations dragged on, the crowd became agitated.
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On 14 July, 1789, the people stormed the fortress prison at Bastille (in Paris) because it stood for the status of monarchy. Also it had revolutionary prisoners in it. People though that it also had hoard of weapons. It stood as a symbol of king and his autocratic and absolutist rule.
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