The day after a Parisian mob stormed King Louis' Bastille fortress, he asked the Duke of La Rochenfoucauld whether a revolt had happened in the city. The duke gravely replied “No, sire, it is not a revolt, it is a revolution.”
This sacrilegious act of tearing down the king's symbol of divinely ordained power is considered the start of the French Revolution and the series of events that would irrevocably transform the future of Europe.
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