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.
Marquis Bernard-Rene de Launay, Governor of the Bastille.
No, that was the date of the Storming of the Bastille during the French Revolution.
The storming of the bastille
King Louis XVI was residing at (the palace of) Versailles.
That was in September 1789 (after the storming of the Bastille).
The storming of the Bastille took place on 14 July 1789. The King at that time was Louis XVI, who was sympathetic to some of the revolutionaries' demands. He was a well-meaning if ineffectual king.
No, he was executed later because he was punished for trying to flee from France.
Bastille Day
Bastille
BASTILLE DAY is a holiday on July 14 that celebrates the liberation and destruction of the Bastille, a prison that held ammunition and political prisoners.
The governor was Bernard-René de Launay, son of the previous governor and actually born within the Bastille. During the storming, he was captured and decapitated, his head was marched around the city on a pike.
The National Assembly is declared, The storming of the Bastille occurs, And the Constitution of 1791 is drafted.