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Jacques Necker is dismissed as France's Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
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Jacques Necker
French statesman (1732–1804)
Jacques Necker was a Genevan banker and statesman who served as finance minister for Louis XVI. He was a reformer, but his innovations sometimes caused great discontent. Necker was a constitutional monarchist, a political economist, and a moralist, who wrote a severe critique of…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Storming of the Bastille
Major event of the French Revolution
The Storming of the Bastille, which occurred in Paris, France, on 14 July 1789, was an act of political violence by revolutionary insurgents who attempted to storm and seize control of the medieval armoury, fortress, and political prison known as the Bastille. After four hours…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)