#14 juillet

frenchhistory:

Modèle réduit de la Bastille

Œuvre exécutée dans un bloc de pierre provenant de la Bastille Anonyme vers 1789 - 1790 Pierre - 7 cm (H) x 95 cm (L) x 48 cm (P)S 503

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After the Storming, people immediately wanted to conserve souvenirs from it. Palloy, in charge of its demolition, encouraged it by creating “relics” from the material of the building. This kind of models, small reproduction of the Bastille, was sent in every département and exhibited for the patriotic fests

frenchhistory:

“The Storming of the Bastille”, Visible in the center is the arrest of Bernard René Jourdan, marquis de Launay (1740-1789), Watercolor painting; 37,8 x 50,5 cm

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The storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France on the morning of 14 July 1789. The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris. While the prison only contained seven inmates at the time of its storming, its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution.

On the morning of 14 July 1789, the city of Paris was in a state of alarm. The demonstrators had earlier stormed the Hôtel des Invalides to gather arms (29,000 to 32,000 muskets, but without powder or shot), and were mainly seeking to acquire the large quantities of arms and ammunition stored at the Bastille. 

The crowd gathered outside around mid-morning, calling for the release of the arms and gunpowder. The negotiations dragged on while, and the crowd finally decided to take the prison down and surged into the undefended outer courtyard. About this time gunfire began.

The firing continued, and the attackers were reinforced by mutinous gardes françaises and other deserters from among the regular troops, along with two cannons. Governor de Launay capitulated and the vainqueurs swept in to liberate the fortress at.

Ninety-eight attackers and one defender had died in the actual fighting. De Launay was seized and dragged towards the Hôtel de Ville. He was then stabbed repeatedly and fell, and his head was sawn off and fixed on a pike to be carried through the streets.

Returning to the Hôtel de Ville, the mob accused the prévôt des marchands  Jacques de Flesselles of treachery, and he was assassinated en route to an ostensible trial at the Palais-Royal.

aparisianlife:

14 juillet parade - and that’s François Hollande on the far left!

movementandwonder:

Joyeuse fête du 14 juillet

@ Jean-Baptiste Gurliat, Déborah Lesage, Clémentine Roche / Mairie de Paris

Joyeuse Fête Nationale!

bunniesandbeheadings:

FRENCH GAME BOARD, 1791. ‘Game of the French Revolution,’ created in 1791. The first player to go from the seizure of the Bastille (step 1) to the Assemblee Nationale (step 63) is the winner. 

bunniesandbeheadings:

Royalist historians have scoffed at the picture of thousands of Parisians hurling themselves at the Bastille to release a handful of prisoners (only seven were still kept there). But such criticism falls somewhat wide off the mark. The immediate aim was to find the powder which had been sent there from the Arsenal - all the more urgent after the large haul of muskets taken from theInvalides….Yet there was no intention to take it by force, least of all on the part of the Permanent Committee of Electors who directed operations, with fumbling uncertainty, from the City Hall. They had made their intentions clear from the start: to negotiate with the governor for the surrender of the gunpowder in his keeping and for the withdrawal of the guns from his battlements.

…However, negotiations stalled after the crowds, surging round the fortress and fearing a trap when the deputations took so long to reappear, lowered the drawbridge (unaccountably left unguarded) that led to the inner courtyard. Believing a frontal attack to be imminent, de Launay gave the order to fire. In the affray that followed, the besiegers lost ninety-eight dead and seventy-three wounded. At this point the electors abandoned their efforts and the crowd took over. The decisive blow was struck by two detachments of the Gardes Francaises who…marched to the fortress with five cannon removed that morning from the Invalides. Supported by a few hundred armed civilians, they trained their canon on the main gate. De Launay threatened to blow up the fortress, but being dissuaded by his garrison, lowered the main drawbridge and surrendered to his assailants.

He himself and six of the 110 defenders were slaughtered - a small number of victims, it must be said, compared with the far heavier losses suffered by the besiegers.

So the Bastille fell, with political consequences…

George Rude, The French Revolution

#celebrate Bastille Day by creating a group project slightly less lethal to your own team

bunniesandbeheadings:

historyarchaeologyartefacts:

A model of the Bastille carved into a brick from the actual Bastille [4863×2471]

Filed under i heard you hated the bastille so i put a bastille in your fragment of the destroyed bastille 

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Bonne fête nationale à tous !! It’s Bastille Day today !!