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In 1789, the French people could tolerate their situation no longer. Anxiety over food shortages, unemployment and a fear of possible government take over produced a feeling of anger that caused the people to revolt. French history was forever changed by these angry people, who took a stand and stormed the Bastille on 14 July, 1789. Today the French people celebrate Bastille Day as a day of freedom from an intolerant régime and that the revolution is over.
Hugh Aubriot built the Bastille in 1382 as a fortress guarding the eastern border of Paris. It was placed here to protect the city from English invasion. The fortress consisted of eight round towers linked by walls seventy-three feet high and five feet thick. There were twelve rampart guns on the towers and eighteen larger cannons were placed on the ground level, as well as on some of the towers. The only entrance to the Bastille was by way of two moats. It was Robert Hubert, the painter of ruins, which gave the......

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