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The French Revolution: The Bastille

"The setting is Paris, the date July 14, 1789.  By dramatically re-creating the reality of that day  and that year --including mass hunger, crushing taxed, and resentment against France's rulers-- this program shows what leads the common people of Paris to a desperate act of violence: the storming of the Bastille."

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*Jean Duplessis-Bertaux, Run on the Tuileries on 10. Aug. 1792 during the French Revolution, (Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons)