Another cause of the French Revolution was the storming of the Bastille. Nervous about soldiers in Versailles, the people of France went to the Bastille to sort out rumors that the capital city was going to be taken over. The Bastille was a fortress and a prison located in Paris. In anger, the prison was raided to gain weapons to defend themselves. “The storming of the Bastille was the opening of the bloody battle that was the French Revolution.