On this day in 1789, a crowd of nearly one thousand protesters stormed the Bastille in Paris, France, a major event in the French Revolution, commemorated annually as "Bastille Day".

In the months running up to the uprising, the people of France were facing a dire economic crisis, food shortage, and increased militarization of Paris on orders of King Louis XVI. The Bastille was an armory and prison, perceived by many as a symbol of royal authority in the city.

On the morning of July 14th, a crowd of approximately one thousand people surrounded the Bastille, calling for the surrender of the prison, the removal of its cannon, and the release of the arms and gunpowder stored there.

After negotiations stalled, the crowd surged into the courtyard of the Bastille and were fired upon by troops in the garrison. In the carnage that followed, ninety-eight protesters and one defender of the Bastille were killed.

Governor Marquis de Launay, fearing his troops could not hold out, capitulated to the crowd and opened up the Bastille doors. He was captured and dragged towards the Hôtel de Ville in a storm of abuse. While the crowd debated his fate, the badly beaten Launay shouted "Enough! Let me die!", kicked a pastry cook in the groin, and was then promptly stabbed to death.

As news of the successful seizure of the Bastille spread throughout the country, revolutionaries established parallel structures of power for government and militias for civic protection, burned deeds of property, and in some cases attacked wealthy landlords.

King Louis XVI first learned of the storming the next morning through the Duke of La Rochefoucauld. "Is it a revolt?" asked the King. The duke replied: "No sire, it's not a revolt; it's a revolution."

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I dont know who .ade the pizza dough on Monday but I want their head rn. It was a slow night and I need the .oney so I let other people go early. Then got a bunch of last minute takeouts. Nothing that would be a huge deal or really fuck up my close...so I thought. The dough we have going today is just awful, especially what we got down to near the end of the night. It was from 2 days ago which is normally perfect, so I think someone fucked up making it. Cause making one large pizza took me 6 attempts and 40 minutes. It was this weird combo of elasticity and fragility where it wouldnt stay stretched and would snap back to where it was or it would just tear. I could manage the normal sized ones for the order but the sixteen inches drove me up the fucking wall. 2 dough were just DOA before I even tried putting topping on, one got a hole in the oven and another had a patched hole bake weird so it jutted out on the bottom just a bit so when I took it out of the oven it snagged the paddle and fell on the fucking floor. By this point I was wondering why this guy wouldnt just go somewhere else. I eventually got something through but under any other circumstances there is no way I would serve it. I've been doing this for 5 years and can compensate for a bad batch of dough pretty easy, until today. Kept me at work 20 extra minutes to finally get it done and clean up all the mess made from the 6 attempts.

[–] Taster_Of_Treats@hexbear.net 1 points 49 minutes ago

Honestly at that point just give them two mediums in place of the one large...