Question

Who stormed the Bastille, the fortress prison during the last years of the 18th century?
a) Soldiers
b) Peasants
c) Agitated Crowd
d) National Assembly

Answer 1

Hint: On D-Day, July 14th, Bastille was stormed and this entire phase is often studied by students and historians under the French revolution, which is known to have brought about a lot of changes around the globe.

Complete Step by Step answer: The historic French Revolution was a European movement of the 18th century, which ended with the ascend of Napoleon Bonaparte on the throne of France. It began when the constitutional monarchy was favoured over the Ancien Regime. It led to the execution of Louis the XVI of the Bourbon Family.
To reach the answer of the asked question, we need to recall the causes of the Revolution and eventually proceed to the major event of storming of the Bastille.
The primary cause was an empty treasury of the state due to excessive spending of Louis the XVI, costly involvement of France in the American revolution, poor harvests for two years, riots, strikes and heavy taxes, all eventually led to the uprising of the common man.

Now, since the third estate grew and took up ninety eight percent of French space, their voice began mattering. So after the National assembly was adopted or precisely, when the tennis court oath was taken on June 17th, the rumors about military coup began spreading, so on July 14th, the Parisians stormed the Bastille in an attempt to secure gunpowder, to save themselves from Military coup. Many people consider this day as the initiation point of the French Revolution and July 14th is National Holiday ever since.

Hence, option c, agitated crowd is the correct answer.

Note: The storming was done primarily by the residents of Saint Antoine and the agitated crowd killed the governor of the Bastille. Seven prisoners were released from the jail and all the gunpowder, which the crowd aimed for, was procured.