The people storming the Bastille on July 14, 1789, were seeking to
A) free the mass of prisoners held there and protest the terrible punishments that had taken place there since the National Assembly had been formed.
B) convince the government to establish an economic trade system that would account for the interests of the middle classes and the poor.
C) obtain weapons and gunpowder to defend Paris against an anticipated attack being planned by Louis XVI.
D) protest the unfair appointment of new leaders to a corrupt governing body called the Third Estate.
E) steal bread, gold, and other resources as part of the first bread riot of the French Revolution.
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