The Storming of the Bastille

Following months of stalled debates in the Estates General, in which the very composition of the assembly could barely be agreed upon, let alone a course of action for social, economic and constitutional reform, the revolutionary masses have had enough. Today, on - a date that will go down in our history - fed up with the lack of progress, the people took matters into their own hands: a mob gathered and stormed the Bastille, a prison fortress towering over Paris as a symbol of royal oppression. Although our ruler our ruler called in the troops, they was left powerless as the army refused to fire on the people and instead joined the revolt.\n\nNow, with a surge of revolutionary zeal coursing through the masses, France has been declared a Republic. The Revolution has arrived...