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On the morning of 14 July 1789, the city of Paris was in a state of alarm. The king had commanded troops to move into the city. Rumours spread that he would soon order the army to open fire upon the citizens. Some 7,000 men and women gathered in front of the town hall and decided to form a peoplesí militia. They broke into a number of government buildings in search of arms. Finally, a group of several hundred people marched towards the eastern part of the city and stormed the fortress-prison, the Bastille, where they hoped to find hoarded ammunition. In the armed fight that followed, the commander of the Bastille was killed and the prisoners released ñ though there were only seven of them. Yet the Bastille was hated by all, because it stood for the despotic power of the king. The fortress was demolished and its stone fragments were sold in the markets to all those who wished to keep a souvenir of its destruction. QUESTION-EXCEPT DESCRIBE THE EVENTS THAT LED TO STORMING OF BASTILLE WHAT ELSE QUESTIONS CAN BE FRAMED IN THIS PARAGRAPH.

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Other questions can e as :
1.Was it a rumour or a reality that the king was going to concentrate the troops around Paris?
2.Why was king going to deploy more number of troops around Paris?
3.What lead to people resentment against the King's command ?

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