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This Day in History
July 14, 1789 - The French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille.Every year, the French celebrate Bastille Day with military parades and fireworks to commemorate the beginning of the French Revolution. The Bastille was a __1__ on the eastern side of Paris. Revolutionaries gave it an inflated notoriety by handing out pamphlets declaring it a state prison. On July 14, 1789, workers in the Faubourg Saint Antoine __2__ the fortress under gunfire, __3__ the Governor, and dismantled the Bastille, stone by stone. Though they claimed they were releasing prisoners, their real purpose was to get guns. This supreme gesture of defiance triggered the 3-year __4__ of terror in which Bourbon King Louis XVI was __5__ and some 1,000 people, including Marie Antoinette, were guillotined.
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