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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1328 THE FRANKLIN PRESS PAGE FIVE pr T3 THE WORLD'S GREAT EVENTS .ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE ' ( by Dodd, Mead ft Compny. The Fall of the BaHile , iiVf OUR majesty, the people are A starving for lack of bread !" "Then," replied Queen Marie An toinette of France, In utter surprise. . "why don't they eat cake?" The Jrivolous queen did not ask this ; qupstjon as a joke. She had so little .y knowledge of poverty and,of the needs ! jQf. a natloVtbat she could not under-' j itand how unappeased hunger could ; exist This one speech of hers sizes '.up better than could a whole volume ; the grievances that led to that red ; horror, the French Revolution. Those ; hlgh In authority neither knew nor ' cared how the great mass of the peo , pie existed. Louis XIV, after Impoverishing ; France by his extravagances, had been ; succeeded by his great-grarylson, Louis XV. The latter had all the "Grand Monarch's" vices arid extravagance : with none of his genius. He left 'France almost bankrupt. The clergy and the nobles were exempt by law ! from taxation. Thus the fearful bur den of taxes fell on the tradespeople ' and peasants. To make matters worse, ' the taxes were "farmed out," and the .' collectors wrung the helpless poor still further to obtain "graft" for I themselves out of the transaction. So 1 while the court reveled In unheard-of ' luxury and magnificence the plain peo ple who paid for It all were left to ' starve. Moreover. Jhr. arisen; racy, taklne their cue from the ting, oppressed and Ill-treated their luckless tenants, grind In? thpm to the dimt : unsnenkable out rages were perpeffated by the nobles against their defenseless peasants and tradesfolk. Undeserved , life impris onment, torture and death, were corn' mon occurrences., . And for centuries the , people of France had submitted ; so lonK, In fact, that their masters had ceased to re gard it as possible that the down trodden slaves could ever revolt. But, during all these centuries the seeds of revolution were germinating seeds which were one day to burst into a bloody harvest of retribution that should set the whole world '.aghast, Among the vilest abuses of the era was the BttBtlle. Tliishuge fortress was at once the state prison and the cltadul of Paris. When a monarch, a nobleman or a man of power had an enemy he could not legally dispose of. he procured (if he had sufficient in fiuence) a secret warrant known as a "lettfe de cachet," and had his foe or victim seized and conveyed to the Bastile. There, without trial, with out hope of rescue, with his friends ignorant of his whereabouts, the prls per. would linger often fo? a lifetime, The Bastile was the visible symbol and sign of despotic power, and as such the people of France hated it even as they feared it. Louis XV had been wise, in his way, He had calculated to a nicety the number of years the people would con tinue to endure such treatment. 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The people grew to loathe Marie An toinette and to blame her for their ufferlng. The American revolution had met with warm support from France, but plunged that country Into disastrous war with England, and, moreover, fired the people with republican ideas. If America had cut free from the bond age of royal despotism why should not France? The people began to awake and to think. Famine was rife throughout the rural districts. Throngs of country folk flocked into Paris. Riots and other disturbances sprang up. A national guard was formed by the municipality and Lafayette was placed at its head. , The people were at last aroused. They did not yet dare to turn against royalty itself, .but they assailed Its most hated symbol the Bastile. On July 14, 1780, a mob marched on this fortress, calling on the governor, De launay, to surrender. . Delaunay re fused. Then the crowd attacked. 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