The Place de la Bastille is often considered the epicenter of the French Revolution. It was here, on July 14, 1789, that revolutionaries stormed the infamous Bastille prison, a symbol of the ...

whose family kept it for generations On This Day in History Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, with the same apparatus used to execute common ...

On the 14th of July hundreds marched on a hated symbol of royal power ... This was much more than simply a mob. The French Revolution would be led by shopkeepers, journalists and lawyers.

The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...