Day of the tiles
The June 7th 1788 of the riots with Grenoble mark the beginning of the French revolution.
Context
Grenoble lives in an extreme agitation which originates in a harvest which is announced bad because of the rain and which causes a rise in the price of the bread. Several families protest against the rise of the food prices of first need and charge the members with the Parliament of the Dauphiné with making go up their claims near the King of France Louis XVI. But these members of Parliament progressists who agree to make go up the complaints of the people severely make sermonize by the Parisian ministers. They are thus forced to leave the town of Grenoble on order of a royal chancellor. The agitation of the Grenoble-native people does nothing but gradually increase until reaching its paroxysm on June 7th, 1788.
This day, agitation is such as the governor of Dauphine is obliged to send its garrison to repress the overflows. Part of the Grenoble-native rioters goes up on the roofs and it is a rain of tiles which abbat on the soldiers with the accesses of the college Jésuite (today Stendhal college, in the current street Raoul Blanchard).
The day of the Tiles will be followed Assemblée of Vizille (close to Grenoble); it will spread the idea that the Tiers state is an order as important as the Clergé and the Noblesse.
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