The popular and accepted belief is that it was a grass roots effort by the French peasants to arm themselves to resist a Royalist or foreign counter revolution aimed at putting the monarchy back in control.
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Bastille saved the national assembly in that it had gunpowder to defend themselve.
my quess is rural peasantry since it were common folks that stormed the bastille.
The Fall of the Bastille
The commers stormed and dismantled the Bastille, the royal armory in Paris.
The Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 marks the beginning of the French Revolution.