Louis
____________________
made
two
fateful
decisions
.
Sometime
around
July
4th
,
the
King
ordered
the
assembly
of
royal
troops
at
several
critical
locations
;
it
appeared
the
king
was
planning
to
regain
his
power
.
Too
,
on
July
11th
Louis
____________________
his
popular
finance
minister
,
Jacques
Necker
,
Necker's
dismissal
triggered
several
days
of
insurrection
in
Paris
.
On
July
12th
a
crowd
of
several
thousand
people
gathered
demanding
Necker's
____________________
.
The
city's
military
garrison
was
called
out
to
restore
order
but
its
soldiers
____________________
to
open
fire
on
the
people
;
in
fact
,
many
Guardsmen
broke
ranks
and
____________________
the
insurrectionists
.
The
people
of
Paris
also
spent
July
12th
and
13th
gathering
arms
,
in
order
to
____________________
the
city
from
an
anticipated
Royalist
assault
.
On
the
morning
of
July
14th
,
a
crowd
of
several
____________________
people
marched
on
the
Hôtel
des
Invalides
in
western
Paris
and
____________________
arms
,
gunpowder
and
even
cannons
.
The
Bastille
was
guarded
by
around
120
soldiers
(
____________________
,
soldiers
who
had
been
injured
and
could
no
longer
fight
in
the
field
)
.
People
of
Paris
demanded
to
withdraw
the
fortress's
18
cannons
,
pointed
threateningly
at
the
suburbs
below
,
and
to
surrender
the
Bastille's
gunpowder
to
the
people
.
____________________
De
Launay
agreed
to
the
first
but
not
the
second
.
Then
,
a
small
group
gained
access
to
the
Bastille
courtyard
through
a
half
raised
____________________
.
Fearing
a
full
-
scale
attack
,
the
governor
ordered
his
soldiers
to
fire
on
the
invaders
.
Then
,
the
Bastille
came
under
____________________
.
Two
detachments
of
the
French
Guard
defected
and
joined
the
people
.
The
crowd
was
unable
to
operate
the
artillery
pieces
stolen
from
the
Invalides
,
so
the
involvement
of
mutinous
soldiers
was
critical
.
By
late
afternoon
,
the
fortress
was
coming
under
cannon
fire
,
much
of
it
targeting
the
drawbridge
.
Convinced
the
situation
was
hopeless
and
fearing
they
would
be
____________________
,
De
Launay's
officers
urged
him
to
____________________
.
Leaders
ordered
De
Launay
to
be
taken
to
the
town
hall
to
stand
____________________
,
however
,
on
the
way
he
was
seized
by
the
crowd
,
choked
and
____________________
.
