Who are the Parisian mobs?

Question

Why they stormed the massive Bastille

Answer 1

The mobs in Paris stormed the Bastille prison in the late 1800's because they were suppposedly rebelling against the tyranny of the nobility. A handful of men in power seized upon this momentum and grabbed control of the government.

Thus began the revolution.

Of course, the French revolution quickly degraded into a witch hunt against not just the nobles and their families (most of them innocent) but also the Catholic Church and her priests, nuns and faithful believers. Every imaginable evil ensued in the name of "freedom" - murder, theft, looting, torture, etc.

Bloodthirsty mobs and power-hungry elites never accomplish anything for the "common good."

By the way, historians have shown that there is no evidence that Queen Marie said "let them eat cake" when told the peasants were hungry. It was the French philosopher Rousseau who accused a French princess of telling peasants to eat cake. We don't know if Rousseau invented this propaganda or not, but at the time he wrote it Marie Antionette was only 10 years old!

Answer 2

The Parisian mobs storming the Bastille is considered the beginning of the French Revolution. All of France was suffering from the over-spending Louis XVI and Marie Antionette, the king and queen at the time, were doing. France was helping the Americans pay for their Revolution at the time and also paying for the extravangance that the monarchy had become accustomed to. The more they spent, the deeper the country sank into debt. The peasants in France at that time had no money to pay for food and when asked what to feed the masses, Marie Antionette responded, "Let them eat cake". Which shows how far removed from its subjects the French monarchy was.