storming of the Bastille

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_event
gptkbp:casualties 1 defender killed
about 100 revolutionaries killed or wounded
gptkbp:cause economic crisis
food shortages
demand for arms and gunpowder
popular discontent with monarchy
gptkbp:commander gptkb:Bernard-René_de_Launay
gptkb:Pierre-Augustin_Hulin
gptkbp:commemoratedBy gptkb:Bastille_Day
gptkbp:date 14 July 1789
gptkbp:followedBy abolition of feudalism in France
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label storming of the Bastille
gptkbp:involves gptkb:Swiss_mercenaries
French Guards
Parisian crowd
gptkbp:location gptkb:Bastille,_Paris,_France
gptkbp:opposedBy gptkb:Bastille_garrison
gptkbp:participants revolutionaries
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:French_Revolution
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Estates-General_of_1789
gptkbp:prisonersFreed 7
gptkbp:resultedIn fall of the Bastille
symbolic start of the French Revolution
gptkbp:significance Bastille Day is celebrated annually in France
gptkbp:symbolizes end of royal authority in Paris
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Pierre-Augustin_Hulin
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7