History Trivia

July 14, 1223 Louis VIII became King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II of France. 1789 the general populace stormed the Bastille; on 4 August feudalism was abolished and on 26 August the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was proclaimed. The anniversary of the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern nation and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which preceded the First Republic during the French Revolution.