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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 .
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.
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 ...
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.
Pierre-François Palloy Stone from the Bastille, presented by Palloy to the district of La Réolle One of Palloy's models made from a stone from the Bastille. Pierre-François Palloy (23 January 1755 – 1835), self-styled as Palloy Patriote (Palloy the Patriot), was an entrepreneurial building contractor remembered for the demolition of the Bastille.
Later in 1652, Condé was finally forced to surrender Paris to the royalist forces in October, effectively bringing the Parisian Fronde to an end: the Bastille returned to royal control. The Fronde in the Provinces, especially around Bordeaux, however, continued through the summer of 1653, [ 6 ] also with involvement of the Spanish fleet in the ...
The Storming of the Bastille (French: Prise de la Bastille [pʁiz də la bastij]) occurred in Paris, France, on 14 July 1789, when revolutionary insurgents attempted to storm and seize control of the medieval armoury, fortress and political prison known as the Bastille. After four hours of fighting and 94 deaths, the insurgents were able to ...
Frantz Funck-Brentano, La Bastille, histoire et description des bâtiments, administration, régime de la prison, événements historiques, Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes, vol. 55, No. 55, Paris, 1894 ; Dufey, La Bastille; Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire secrète du gouvernement Français.