Today's installment concludes Revolutionaries Storm Bastille,our selection from The Life of Napoleon Bounoparte by William Hazlitt published in

For several hours, during a murderous discharge of musketry, and amid heaps of the wounded and dying, the Paris mob attacked.Continuing

Early in the morning the people assembled in large bodies at the Hôtel de Ville; the tocsin sounded from all the churches; the drums beat to summon

He calmly finished his dinner, without saying a word of the order he had received, and immediately after got into his carriage with his wife and took

"Go tell your master," cried Mirabeau, "that we are here by order of the people; and that we shall not retire but at the point of the

This first independent and spirited step on the part of the commons produced a reaction on the part of the Court.Continuing Revolutionaries Storm