Why was Bastille attacked by people of France?

 Why was Bastille attacked by people of France? Mention any three points.

What caused the Storming of the Bastille? Specifically (and not to answer the general question of “What caused the French Revolution?”), on 14 July 1789, a mob of French citizens was looking for gunpowder to use in the muskets and cannons they had earlier seized at the across-town army barracks of the Hotel de Invalides, in order to defend Paris from an expected attack by the King’s military, which included many foreign mercenaries. This gunpowder was to be found at the Bastille, a prison-fortress symbolizing the tyranny of the old order. Discussions between the Bastille’s governor and representatives from the citizens went awry, turning from requests for surrendering the gunpowder to demands for surrendering the Bastille itself. Delays and miscommunications brought about angry efforts by the crowd to advance further into the Bastille’s grounds, which were repulsed by the defenders firing into the crowd. The arrival of deserting French Guardsmen late in the afternoon brought the crisis to a head, with the governor finally surrendering, with the expectation (and promise) that no harm would come to the defenders. Unfortunately, the angry emotion that had been building for decades and heightened by the defenders killing 100 attackers boiled over, leading to the decapitation of the governor and the summary executions of a number of others defenders.

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How significant was the storming of the Bastille in the collapse of royal absolutism in France?

The Bastille had a reputation as a political prison to which on the strength of a lettre de cachet a dissident could be consigned for life without the benefit of such niceties of due process as a trial. The destruction of the Bastille stone by stone after its storming was seen as the destruction of the Acienne Regime. The fact is that nobody among the seven old men incarcerated was a political prisoner.

The Bastille was used to investigate and break up Protestant networks by imprisoning and questioning the more recalcitrant members of the community, in particular upper-class Calvinists; some 254 Protestants were imprisoned in the Bastille during Louis's reign.

The seven prisoners in the Bastille included four forgers, an Irish “lunatic”, a deviant young aristocrat imprisoned at the behest of his family, and a man who once conspired to kill King Louis XV.

● France has a reputation for losing wars.

And this is mostly because of a humiliating defeat in World War 2.

The thing is—they have fought in 168 wars since 387 bc. They won 109 of them, which makes them one of the most successful militaries in the world.

A column of French soldiers passing British allies in World War 1.  

●People forget that France didn’t have it in them to fight the Germans again in World War 2.

4% of their population died during WW1 which would be the equivalent of 13 million Americans dying in a war. If that happened to us, we probably wouldn’t want to go back to war either.

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