Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the Bastille, a royal fortress and prison that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs. This dramatic action signaled the beginning of the French Revolution, a decade of political turmoil and terror in which King Louis XVI was overthrown and tens of thousands of people, including the king and his wife Marie-Antoinette, were executed.
By the summer of 1789, France was moving quickly toward revolution. Bernard-René Jordan de Launay, the military governor of the Bastille, feared that his fortress would be a target for the revolutionaries and so requested reinforcements. On July 12, royal authorities transferred 250 barrels of gunpowder to the Bastille, and Launay brought his men into the massive fortress and raised its two drawbridges.
At dawn on July 14, a great crowd armed with muskets, swords, and various makeshift weapons began to gather around the Bastille. Launay’s men were able to hold the mob back, but as more and more Parisians were converging on the Bastille, Launay raised a white flag of surrender over the fortress. Launay and his men were taken into custody, the Bastille’s gunpowder and cannons were seized, and the seven prisoners were freed. Upon arriving at the Hotel de Ville, where Launay was to be arrested and tried by a revolutionary council, he was instead pulled away by a mob and murdered.
The capture of the Bastille symbolized the end of the ancien regime and provided the French revolutionary cause with an irresistible momentum. In 1792, the monarchy was abolished and Louis and his wife Marie-Antoinette were sent to the guillotine for treason in 1793.
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The way France is headed – a Negro Muslim country; we can shed a tear for old times there now forgotten.
Perhaps it is time for a return to the Ancien Régime?
Europe is living on borrowed time.
The whole continent is one economic crisis away from becoming a huge social disaster, and it wouldn’t surprise me if the fools revert to offers of citizenship to the back-assward Horde simply to keep the EU together. They’re ASKING for another European war.
The sans-culottes of France enabled the Jacobins, then the Jacobins gave way to Bonaparte. Modern Europe will get no less.
The sad part about “revolutions” is that the end result ends up concentrating MORE POWER in the hands of fewer and fewer folks. Even the American Revolution ultimately had that result, and we are witnessing some of the effects even today. The non-violent “revolution” that ultimately dissolved the former Soviet Union is one of the rare instances where power was decentralized…to the benefit of everyone.
When the wealth of centuries is consumed , the niggers and mohammedans will stop coming. Maybe they will leave.
“It is a well-known fact that during the French Commune when men of wealth suffered severe losses in property, the Jewish Rothschilds were not injured to the extent of one pennyworth.” – Henry Ford
Nothing good came out of the French Revolution. Whenever leftists get into power, one of the first things they do is attack Christians, even in western countries like France, Spain, Russia, etc.
The martydom of the Carmelite nuns was so shocking, that Spain nearly declared war, and the leaders of the Revolution were guillotined 10 days later. So their self-sacrifice did finally end mass executions, and in fact was an imitation of the Cross.