The day after a Parisian mob stormed King Louis’ Bastille fortress, he asked the Duke of La Rochenfoucauld whether a revolt had happened in the city. The duke gravely replied “No, sire, it is not a revolt, it is a revolution.” This sacrilegious act of tearing down the king’s symbol of divinely ordained power is … Continue reading Causes and Significance of the Storming of the Bastille