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The Place de la Bastille (French pronunciation: [plas də la bastij]) is a square in Paris where the Bastille prison once stood, until the storming of the Bastille and its subsequent physical destruction between 14 July 1789 and 14 July 1790 during the French Revolution. No vestige of the prison remains.
The Bastille (/ b æ ˈ s t iː l /, French: ⓘ) was a fortress in Paris, known as the Bastille Saint-Antoine.It played an important role in the internal conflicts of France and for most of its history was used as a state prison by the kings of France.
A foreign country is understood as a country not part of France in 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics. 2 An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. An ...
In 1356 Charles V of France ordered the building of a new wall to replace Philip II's on the right bank. This new wall had only six gates to allow access into Paris to be controlled – one of these six was the Porte Saint-Antoine, built quickly with two towers.
Bastille (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a station on Line 1, Line 5 and Line 8 of the Paris Métro. Located under the Place de la Bastille and near the former location of the Bastille , it is situated on the border of the 4th , 11th and 12th arrondissement .
Augustin Dumont's Génie de la Liberté. The July Column (French: Colonne de Juillet) is a monumental column in Paris commemorating the Revolution of 1830.It stands in the center of the Place de la Bastille and celebrates the Trois Glorieuses — the 'three glorious' days of 27–29 July 1830 that saw the fall of Charles X, King of France, and the commencement of the July Monarchy of Louis ...
The Boulevard de la Bastille (French pronunciation: [bulvaʁ də la bastij]) is the southwesternmost street of the 12th arrondissement of Paris, situated in the quartier called Quinze-Vingts. It overlooks the east side of the Paris marina, known as the Port de Plaisance or Port de l'Arsenal , with which it forms a boundary with the 4th ...
The Place de la Nation (French pronunciation: [plas də la nɑsjɔ̃]; formerly the Place du Trône [-tʁon], subsequently the Place du Trône-Renversé [-ʁɑ̃vɛʁse] during the French Revolution) is a circle on the eastern side of Paris, between the Place de la Bastille and the Bois de Vincennes, on the border of the 11th and 12th arrondissements.