All paintings from the 17th, 18th and 19th century are dramatized :p The storming of the Bastille was pretty much a fight between perhaps one thousand people who had no ammo (hence why they attacked the Bastille: it also served as an ammunition storage place) and a few soldiers too afraid to shoot and kill angry civilians.
The mob stormed the infamous fort, freed the 7 poor dudes stuck there (one of them being Sade's cousin or son IIRC), and that was about it. I'm not sure many people realized this was the beginning of the most glorious political event of the modern era back then.

Thanks for the wishes. I'm not a nationalist on crack and - as most frenchmen - don't really give a crap about the 14th of July, but I'm somewhat proud nonetheless.

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