The Bastille became the focus of the opening of the French Revolution. Why?
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 01:18:06
Category: / History / European History
Length: 5 pages (1279 words)
Category: / History / European History
Length: 5 pages (1279 words)
The Bastille became the focus of the opening of the French Revolution. Why?
The Bastille had been transformed from being used as a military fortress to protect the Eastern wall of Paris in the 14th Century to it's less imposing role as a prison by the 17th Century . The walls were over eighty feet high and it held weapons arsenals from its glory days as a military fortress . Acting under King Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu …
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…to a radical republic.
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