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How many prisoners were released after the Bastille was taken?

Seven.

In France, July 14 - Bastille Day - is a national holiday and a great national symbol - the same as July 4 in the United States.

Looking at the enthusiastic paintings depicting the scenes of those days, you surely imagine hundreds of noble revolutionaries pouring out of the prison gates into the streets of Paris with "tricolors" in their hands. In fact, at the time of the assault, no more than half a dozen prisoners were kept in the fortress.

The storming of the Bastille took place on July 14, 1789. Soon, on the streets of the capital, frightening engravings were already being traded, on which chained prisoners languished in gloomy dungeons almost in an embrace with skeletons. Thus, public opinion was formed about the conditions of detention in the fortress. It has not changed even today.

Built in the 1718th century, the fortress served as a prison for several centuries. During the time of Louis XVI, people arrested on the orders of the king or his ministers for state crimes - conspiracy or attempted overthrow - were kept here. Among the famous prisoners was Voltaire himself: the tragedy Oedipus (XNUMX) was written by him in the cell of the Bastille. On the day of the famous assault, there were only seven prisoners; viscount de Solange (sentenced to prison for "sexual misdemeanor" (Misdemeanors are minor crimes for which not criminal, but administrative punishment is usually imposed)), two mentally ill people (one of whom was either an Englishman or an Irishman named Major White - with a beard to the waist and who considered himself Julius Caesar) and four were imprisoned for forging bills.

A hundred people lost their lives during the assault, including the commandant of the fortress, whose head impaled on a pike was proudly carried throughout Paris.

The prison garrison of the Bastille consisted of invalids - soldiers demobilized from the regular army due to disability - and the conditions for most prisoners were quite comfortable, the cells were well furnished, and the prisoners were entitled to visiting hours.

In the sketch of the artist Jean Fragonard, one of the "visiting days" in the Bastille in 1785: secular ladies walk around the yard arm in arm with prisoners. The prisoners received very good pocket money, as well as tobacco and alcohol in abundance; they were even allowed to keep pets.

Jean Francois Marmontel, a prisoner of the Bastille in 1759-1760, wrote: “The wine was, of course, not excellent, but quite tolerable. fed badly."

The entry in the diary of Louis XVI on the day of the storming of the Bastille is limited to just one word: "Rien" (French for "nothing").

The king was referring to the empty bag after the hunt that day.

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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