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Explain The Day Before The Storming Of The Bastille

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On July 14, 1789, Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops stormed the Bastille, a state prison and a detention center located on the east side of Paris. They captured 250 barrels of gunpowder and found 7 prisoners inside the bastille. Prisoners inside the Bastille weren’t there because of murder or theft, they were there for political crimes things such as talking bad about the state, people that were imprisoned in the fortress were Authors and Political pornographers. What led up to this event was due to the doing of Louis XIV, a leader who led the country to corruption with the weight of taxes on the third estates and food shortages. The day before the storming of the bastille mobs July 13, mobs stormed the Paris arsenal and armories

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