Toma de la Bastilla; Prisión - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 07:42:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Toma de la Bastilla; Prisión - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 The storming of the Bastille https://historylab.es/the-storming-of-the-bastille/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-storming-of-the-bastille Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:09 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/la-toma-de-la-bastilla/ The image shows the storming of the Bastille, which took place in Paris on 14 July 1789. Its fall at the hands of the Parisian revolutionaries symbolically marked the fall of the Ancien Régime and the beginning of the French Revolution.

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]]> The Bastille was considered a symbol of the despotism of the French monarchy because it was a prison for many victims of monarchical arbitrariness. At the time of its fall, this medieval fortress barely housed any prisoners within its walls, yet it had great symbolic value for what it signified as a representation of absolute power. Its seizure by the Parisian people marked the beginning of the French Revolution and still stands today as a milestone in the history of revolutions.

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