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The 1789 ‘Prise de la Bastille!’
July 14, 2009 at 12:00 AM · Filed under Endorsements, Feedback, Français, Free, Hard Targets, History, LOW Tech, MOBILE, Personal Growth, Politically INcorrect, Poverty, Propaganda, SHOCKED & AWED, Socialism, Suggestions, Venusian, Video and tagged: Bastille Day, France, Riots
In the wake of the 11 July dismissal of Jacques Necker, the people of Paris, fearful that they and their representatives would be attacked by the royal military, and seeking to gain ammunition and gunpowder for the general populace, stormed the Bastille, a fortress-prison in Paris which had often held people jailed on the basis of lettres de cachet, arbitrary royal indictments that could not be appealed. Besides holding a large cache of ammunition and gunpowder, the Bastille had been known for holding political prisoners whose writings had displeased the royal government, and was thus a symbol of the absolutism of the monarchy.
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