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5. THE STORMING OF THE BASTILLE Great-uncle, said little Pierre, it is so long since you have told me a story,. Today in school I heard mentioned the name Madame Defarge, Could you tell me perhaps something about her? Seated in the kitchen of a French farmhouse, in the lovely countryside outside Versailles, was an old man, smoking his pipe and g ziag fondly at his little grandnephew„ iee, mon petit, I know well the story of Madame Defarge, Come over here by the fire and I shall tell you one of the most blood-thirsty stories in the history of France The little boy climbed up on the knee of his great-uncle, and trembling with excitement and anticipation he settled down to listen to one of the old gentleman ' s wonderful stories. Ah yes, it was during the reign of Louis XVI „ He was a bad ruler, and how well we knew what it meant to be hungry and cold during those dreary days in my beloved France. Paris was a seething mass of unrest and hatred for the ruling class, who were called Aristocrats. One day, while I was returning home from the lyc e I was caught up in a mob of fierce, wild people. A powerful woman dragged me along with her, and I was terrified as I heard her screaming, We are storming the Bastille - down with the Aristocrats - they will feel the blade of the gulllotinei Before I knew it we were at the gates of the dark and forbidding Bastille, Until the day I die I shall hear the howl of the mob, as they used huge battering rams to break down the doors, walls, and barred windows. They were animals, the people in the mob, and as they stormed into the Bastille and into the black prison of the Concl ergerle , the guards and soldiers could make little impression on their terrible actions. Soon the Bastille was a flaming mass of fire and destruction. And I cannot tell you, my little one, of the many horrors I saw. But yes, it was the blackest period in the history of la belie France. I was there, yes - and always shall I remember. Stephen Greening - Age 10.4-
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