The French Revolution and the storming of the Bastille

The French people were getting nervous about what the king would do. Some people thought the king would send his soldiers to kill them all. They decided they needed weapons. They were going to get the weapons from the Bastille. The Bastille was a prison / fortress. The French did not like the Bastille, so on July 14, 1789 they attacked it. At first they could not get in, but then, people came with cannons and pointed them at the gate. Then the people inside the Bastille surrendered. When they got all of the weapons they needed and let the prisoners out they destroyed the Bastille.
That day became a special day in France, they call it Bastille day.
Not long after they destroyed the Bastille, other French people were mad because they still did not have a Constitution. They did not have to wait long. Soon they signed the Declaration of the Rights of Man and a Constitution.