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  • Bastille Day Facts

    On July 14, 1789, Parisian revolutionaries stormed the Bastille fort, wherein Louis XVI had imprisoned a lot of his enemies—or the ones whom he appeared to be enemies of the country. For many, the area had come to symbolize not anything brief of royal tyranny. Its surprising fall foretold the French revolution—along side a vacation…