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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.
Place de la Bastille, the location of the Bastille, stormed on 14 July 1789; Opéra Bastille, opera house; Promenade Plantée, a 4.5-kilometre long (2.8 mi) elevated garden along the abandoned railway which led to the former Gare de La Bastille railway station. Bassin de l'Arsenal, boat basin; July Column, a monument to the revolution of 1830
The Place de la Bastille still occupies most of the location of the Bastille, and the Opéra Bastille was built on the square in 1989 to commemorate the bicentennial anniversary of the storming of the prison. [219] The surrounding area has largely been redeveloped from its 19th-century industrial past.
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
One of the oldest routes through Paris, dating to the Roman era, was that through the centre of the city heading for Meaux and Melun.This road began in Paris with what is now the Rue du Pourtour-Saint-Gervais as far as the Porte Baudoyer, the gate into the 5th-century enclosure level with the Rue des Barres and Place Baudoyer.