14th of July

The 14th of July is a national celebration day: storming of the Bastille. The storming of the Bastille was under the French Revolution in 1789, the Bastille was the symbol of monarchical tyranny. In contrary of what has been told, there were not a lot of people who died, a riot of one thousand people went to the Bastille which was protected by a few soldiers. Then people tried to make the story sounds more important and brave.
The main event of that day was the storming of the Invalides where was a riot of 40 000-50 000 people. At 10 am the population decides to go to the Invalides in order to get weapons. The soldiers refused to obey and did not want to shoot on the population of Paris, so the population take possession of the place and the weapons. The problem is they have the weapons but not the ammunitions that is why half an hour later they send a group of people to get it.
The soldiers at the Bastille do not want to let them do and start to fight them. After many group sent and fight they surrender at 5 pm. With the weapons the population decides to stop the monarchical tyranny and to take possession of Paris. The King Louis XVI will ask : 'Is it a revolt ?' and the Duc de La Rochefoucauld will answer 'No, sir. This is not a revolt, this is a revolution.' Since this time this speech became famous.
Since this time and every year, we celebrate this day of freedom and where our rights started to become more equal for everyone.