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Bastille Day 2024 - July 14
July 15 , 2024
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- It is the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille prison in Paris in 1789.
- To introduce new taxes, Louis XVI, in 1788, summoned the Estates-General, a nominally representative body that had last met in 1614.
- The Third Estate - commoners effectively broke away to establish the National Assembly on June 17, 1789.
- On June 20, this body took oath at the royal tennis court in Versailles.
- Louis XVI started moving more troops into Paris to crush this movement.
- On July 14, a huge, armed mob began marching towards the Bastille, a 14th century fortress-prison in Paris.
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