More than any other event of the eighteenth century, the French Revolution, which began in 1789, changed the face of modern politics across Europe and the world. And it all began one July day when the people of Paris captured a fourteenth-century gothic prison known as the Bastille.

Written by Mircea Platon. Narration by Dr. Nicholas B. Breyfogle.

An in-text version of this episode can be found at: https://origins.osu.edu/index.php/milestones/july-2014-storming-bastille