Attack on Bastille 1789

About a month after the National Assembly was created by members of the Third Estate, rumors somehow traveled to the city I lived in about Louis, the king at the time, possibly using a military to end the National Assembly. I was scared, I didn’t want the National Assembly to be over, I fully supported it and wanted it to stay intact as long as possible. Because of the threat, the next day, my dad, who lived with me, and the bunch of other men in the city said they were going to travel to Paris. At the time, I didn’t know why he went, but I hoped that he had good intentions. At the same time I was scared for him, I hoped he would be safe and return home. All I knew about his journey to the city was that along the way he gathered more and more people and when they made it to Paris; they joined with even more people. I don’t remember the exact date, but sometime in the July of 1789, a mob stormed Bastille, a Paris prison. My dad, being a part of the mob said that they easily overtook the guards and eventually the group gained control of the prison. He also said that some people killed several guards and the prison commander. In the end, the mob of the Third Estate was victorious and this showed another sign of revolution. Although I don’t always support violence, I realized, through the Attack on Bastille, that when you want something, you may have to use forces you may not think are right in order to make a point. I will definitely remember the day this happened because I think this may have proved to a lot of people, including myself, that the Third Estate isn’t afraid anymore and that they were going to do whatever was necessary to get what they wanted. It gave me the courage and hope that even bigger and better things were to come. If I was a nobleman or part of the clergy, I would have been scared on that day about what was to come next. But, being part of the Third Estate, I was excited about what was to come in the future. The storming of the Bastille, I felt, was a good turning point in the revolution for us.