Most people think of revolution as a violent overturning of political institutions. Parisians storming the Bastille on July 14, 1789, became a model of popular action later adopted, in 1917, by the ...
That fear culminated on July 14 in a march to the Hôtel des Invalides to loot firearms and cannons, and a resulting (and far more famous) trip to the Bastille for proper ammunition. That hunt for ...