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Happy birthday France. When the Bastille was stormed by the Parisians,how many jail birds were there in the prison?
 
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It was a small number, very small. For some reason, I seem to remember that it was 6 prisiners.
 
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Oh, yeah. Happy Birthday, France!
 
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Pretty much right,DG.This
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At least one was insane and at least one a debtor. In fact there may have been no 'political' prisoners in there at the time, but. like so many events in history, the storming had a symbolic and marketable image.
 
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