Nonetheless, regular people considered the Bastille a symbol of royal oppression. By 1789, under the rein of Louis XVI, the Bastille didn’t have many prisoners, and the conditions were relatively comfortable - some wealthy prisoners even brought their own servants. It was used as a prison, and it had a reputation as a place where political prisoners and enemies of the royal family would rot away in miserable dungeons without a proper trial. The Bastille was a medieval fortress, built in the 14th century, with eight towers, each 80 feet tall.
It was on this day in 1789 that an angry French mob stormed the Bastille prison in Paris, an event that launched the French Revolution.
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