Seeking a mandate from the French people for his policies, Louis XVI convened the Estates General. Events soon outran the ...
When angry commoners stormed the Bastille in Paris on July 14, 1789, they struck a blow against one of the monarchy’s most forbidding symbols. The infamous prison no longer exists—it was destroyed in ...
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