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July 14 1789 The Fall of the Bastille — Fexingo History

July 14 1789 The Fall of the Bastille — Fexingo History

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 We open on a sweltering Paris morning in July 1789. A crowd gathers outside the medieval fortress-prison of the Bastille, not for bread—but for gunpowder. Lucas and Luna explore the tinderbox that was pre-revolutionary France: a kingdom bankrupted by war and lavish court spending, a rigid social order of three Estates where the clergy and nobility paid no taxes while peasants starved, and the fateful decision by Louis XVI to summon the Estates-General for the first time in 175 years. They unpack the Tennis Court Oath, the storming of the Bastille, and the wave of peasant uprisings known as the Great Fear that swept the countryside. Along the way, they meet key figures like the Abbé Sieyès, whose pamphlet 'What Is the Third Estate?' electrified the nation, and the Marquis de Lafayette, who presented a draft of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. But the episode ends on a sobering note: the revolution's early promise masked deeper conflicts between urban sans-culottes, provincial peasants, and a king who could not decide whether to lead or resist. Future episodes will trace how that fracture led to the Terror, the guillotine, and the rise of Napoleon.

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