History and changing world | the French Revolution | the French Revolution for upsc | the French Revolution 14 July 1789 for 9th class

             The French Revolution 

On the morning of 14 July 1989, the city of  Paris was in the state of emergency. The king gave order to his soldiers to move into the city. Rumours (gossip) are spread into city , that king gave soon order to open fire upon the citizens. Approximat 7000 citizens are gathered in the front of town hall and decided to form the people militia. They broke number of government building in search of arms.

Finally, a group of seven hundred people are marched towards the eastern part of the city and attack to fort-prison, the people where they hoped to get hoarded and weapons or ammunitions. In armed fight, the commander of people militia was killed and prisoners was released only seven of them. Yet the people militia was hated by all, because they known the despotic power of the king. The fort was demolished and it's stone fragments were sold in market to those who wished to keep a souvenir of its destruction.

The days that followed to more rioting both in Paris and countryside. Most people were protesting them, food prices were highly raised. Much later, when historians looked back upon this time, they saw it was a beginning or starting of France king deaths. From this protests of 14 July 1789 unlimited despotic kings of France were execution. Most people at the time did not anticipate this outcome.