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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.
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cameronparkins/Flickr CelebratiJuly 14th is Bastille Day, the the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille in Paris, which precipitated the French Revolution. Think Independence Day in America, but
On the evening of 14 July 1789 the crowd who had stormed the Bastille, wounded but triumphant, arrived in front of the Hôtel de Ville, bearing trophies seized from the fortress. The central figure in the painting, Jacob Job Élie , is brandishing in his right hand a sword and in his left hand the key to the fortress and a letter signed by de ...
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