The king first learns of the storming…

July 1789 CE

The king first learns of the storming only the next morning through the Duke of La Rochefoucauld. "Is it a revolt?" asks Louis XVI.

The duke replies: "No sire, it's not a revolt; it's a revolution."

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Versailles Ile-de-France France View →

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Jacques Necker View → Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans View → Louis XVI of France View →

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France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of View →

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French Revolution View → Bastille, Storming of the View →

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