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1.On the morning of 14 July 1789, the city of Paris was in s a state of alarm. 2.The king had commanded troops to move into the city. 3. Rumours spread that he would soon order the army to open fire upon the citizens. 4. Some 7,000 men & women gathered in front of the town hall and decided to form a people's militia. 5. A group of several hundred people marched towards the eastern part of the city and stormed the fortress-prison, the Bastille, where they hoped to find hoarded ammunition. 6.Bastille was hated by all because it stood for the despotic power of the king. 7.The fortress was demolished and it's stone fragments were sold in the markets to all those who wished to keep a souvenir of its destruction