The people who seized the Bastille were not peasants but Paris' townspeople, led by a few soldiers. Peasants did not came inside the capital from the countryside, to participate in the fall of the Bastille (althought they did participate in much that happened by the countryside). The weapons used to capture the Bastille were rifles seized earlier in the day at the Invalides arsenal, and a few cannons taken from the same location.
King Louis XVI attempted to regain the political initiative by mustering royal troops near Versailles and Paris. The mustering of royal troops created anxiety in the city, where throughout the winter and spring of 1789 high prices for bread had produced riots. By June they were organizing a citizens militia and collecting arms. On July 14, large crowds of Parisians marched to the Bastille to get weapons for the militia.
As a specific event, the storming of the Bastille is only a raid on a supposed arms and weapons depot, by a mixed mob of Parisians and National Guards. On a symbolic level, the seven prisoners it hosted were set free and the Bastille was turned into a symbol of royal abuse of justice (even though no prisoner was detained there for political reasons, the simple signature of the king was enough to justify the emprisonments). That event is also for the French historians, the official beginning of the French revolution.
The Bastille on 14 July 1789.
Bastille Day, which is always the 14th of July. It marks the fall of Bastille in the French Revolution in 1789.
Bastille Day happens in summer, as it is July 14.
The French peasants were able to get weapons and became an army, not just a mob.
An example of this would be the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789. This was when French peasants went into the Bastille, a prison, to get gunpowder and weapons.
The Bastille represented the power the aristocracy held over poorer people. People probably did not hate the Bastille. An important reason it was stormed was that it had many guns and other weapons stored inside, which the peasants used to arm themselves.
Things such as maces, tabars, various swords, hook guns and several varieties of knives. The King's Army also had body armour to protect themselves from the Peasants' weapons
The Bastille was a political prison that had become a symbol to French peasants of the tyranny of the monarchy. It was stormed and the prisons in it freed in 1789.
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Historically it began with the Storming of the Bastille by the peasants seeking weapons and gunpowder to defend themselves against a Royalis counter revolution or an invasion by Austria.
They Stormed the Bastille.
nobles higher class figures then peasants.
Bastille Day celebrates the Storming of the Bastille by French Peasants on 14 July 1789.
The peasants who lived in Europe during the french revolution were hard pressed to get food because the king kept driving up prices. They starved. The king also didn't govern by protecting the people, he was hated, so events started up such as the storming of the Bastille, the peasants thought there would be weapons in there, and they burned it to the ground. So i would say that the condition of the peasants was pretty bad....
bastille was hated because it stood for the despotic power of the king.The king at that time was louis XVI.