The Fall of the bastille
By Nick Scandura
On the early morning of July 14th, 1789, a mob began to form in the streets of Paris, France. The spark that had lit their fires was the rumor spreading that troops in support of the king were preparing to overtake their precious city. So of course the mob did the only reasonable thing that I mob could do, and gathered into an angry storm of people and attack anything that seemed to even remotely be a threat. The target chosen by this mob was a huge stronghold/prison called the Bastille, which they thought held political officials who had supported them and weapons which would be used to kill them. Their unjustified fear then took control of them and they unleashed an assault upon the fortress.
The crowd was vicious and violent, completely taking down this stone building with their bare hands. The ruffians then attacked the prison guards and freed what few prisoners there were. Finally, the barbaric crowd captured the head of the prison. They at first claimed that they would spare him, but very soon after they killed him and placed his head on a stick. They then displayed there sick, violent way throughout the city in some kind of twisted parade.
Such disgusting behavior, death filled behavior was an unacceptably uncivilized display of what the revolution was becoming. No society should allow this to happen, if they at all have in sense of morals or human nature. Even worse yet, the violence has been glorified by the people of France as some kind of turning point in the revolution, when really this accomplished nothing. They took apart a famous building in search of something and didn’t find it, so they just acted like what they did was their intentions all along. Such behavior should be strictly reprimanded and controlled, lest it get out of hand in some kind of snowball effect. This sort of thing is just not acceptable.
The crowd was vicious and violent, completely taking down this stone building with their bare hands. The ruffians then attacked the prison guards and freed what few prisoners there were. Finally, the barbaric crowd captured the head of the prison. They at first claimed that they would spare him, but very soon after they killed him and placed his head on a stick. They then displayed there sick, violent way throughout the city in some kind of twisted parade.
Such disgusting behavior, death filled behavior was an unacceptably uncivilized display of what the revolution was becoming. No society should allow this to happen, if they at all have in sense of morals or human nature. Even worse yet, the violence has been glorified by the people of France as some kind of turning point in the revolution, when really this accomplished nothing. They took apart a famous building in search of something and didn’t find it, so they just acted like what they did was their intentions all along. Such behavior should be strictly reprimanded and controlled, lest it get out of hand in some kind of snowball effect. This sort of thing is just not acceptable.
Bibliography
Liversidge, Douglas. The Day the Bastille Fell July 14, 1789, the Beginning of the End of the French Monarchy. New York: Franklin Watts, 1972. Print
Liversidge, Douglas. The Day the Bastille Fell July 14, 1789, the Beginning of the End of the French Monarchy. New York: Franklin Watts, 1972. Print