His name was Delaunay, and he was killed after, not during, the storming. He surrendered the Bastille on condition that he and his soldiers be spared, but the mob got hold of him and his head was cut off with a rather blunt knife.
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Marquis Bernard-Rene de Launay, Governor of the Bastille.
The National Assembly is declared, The storming of the Bastille occurs, And the Constitution of 1791 is drafted.
The storming of the Bastille was particularly gruesome. It was during this event that the act of decapitating someone and putting their head on a pike, then parading it around the town square became popular.The guillotine was invented shortly thereafter, and was used frequently in the days and months after the Bastille had been stormed.The entire revolution was pretty bloody, really.
No. The revolution had already begun with the storming of the Bastille at 14 July 1789 and the Tennis Court Oath that same year. Louis' death did mark the beginning of "the Terror", an extremely bloody and murderous period during the French revolution.
1. It was an armory. 2. It was a prison. 3. The storming of the Bastille started the French Revolution because the peasants seized the weapons stored in the Bastille and became an army and not just a mob.