Viewpoint Magazine
Bastille Day Revisited
On July 14, 1789, the people of Paris stormed the Bastille fortress, initiating a political sequence that abolished feudalism, overturned the monarchy, and established popular sovereignty.
Florence Gauthier
is a historian based at the University of Paris 7-Denis Diderot. She is the author of several books on the French Revolution, including Triomphe et mort du droit naturel en révolution, 1789-1795-1802.