Jamie Foxx Essay: Bastile Day History 101 Mr.

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Finance Minister, who was sympathetic to the Third Estate, was dismissed on July 11. The people of
Paris then stormed the fearful that they and their representatives would be attacked by the royal
army or by foreign regiments of mercenaries in the king's service, and seeking to gain ammunition
and gunpowder for the general populace. The Bastille was a fortress-prison in Paris which had often
held people jailed on the basis of
As early as 1789, the year of the storming of the Bastille, preliminary designs for a national festival
were underway. These designs were intended to strengthen the country's national identity through
the celebration of the events of 14 July 1789
which was located far outside of Paris at the time. The work needed to transform the Champ de
Mars into a suitable location for the celebration was not on schedule to be completed in time. On the
day recalled as the Journée des brouettes ("The Day of the Wheelbarrow"), thousands of Parisian
citizens gathered together to finish the construction needed for the celebration

The government decided that the date of the holiday would be 14 July, but it was still somewhat
problematic. The events of 14 July 1789 were illegal under the previous government, which
contradicted the Third Republic's need to establish legal legitimacyFrench politicians also did not
want the sole foundation of their national holiday to be rooted in a day of bloodshed and class-hatred
as the day of storming the Bastille was. Instead, they based the establishment of the holiday as a
dual celebration of the Fête de la Fédération, a festival celebrating the one year anniversary of 14
July 1789, and the storming of the Bastille

The Assembly voted in favor of the proposal on 21 May and 8 June, and the law was approved on
27 and 29 June. The law was made official on 6 July 188