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On July 14th, 1789, more than 800 Parisians assembled outside the Bastille in Paris, before storming this medieval fortress used as a prison. ... After being fired upon by the commander of the Bastille, the mob broke through the fortress’s defenses, killing several guards and releasing some of the prisoners they found within, though they found no weapons or ammunition.
On October fifth of that year, a little short of 3 months after the storming of the Bastille, an angry mob made up of thousands of women gathered in Paris. ...
Both the storming of the Bastille and the women’s march on the palace of Versaille are very significant events in French history, which clearly demonstrated that the people, mainly the third estate, had dealt with such extreme oppression and discrimination for way too long, and that a broad political and social revolution had clearly begun.
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