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Pages in category "Prisoners of the Bastille" The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
An Enquiry into the History of the Prisoner with the Mask". History of the Bastille (hardcover) (1st ed.). London: T. Cadell. pp. 254–356 – via HathiTrust Digital Library. Cubières, Michel de (1789). Voyage à la Bastille, fait le 16 juillet 1789, et adressé à Mme de G., à Bagnols, en Languedoc (PDF) (hardcover
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 ...
The prison's second-in-command, de Rosarges, was to feed him. Lieutenant du Junca, another officer of the Bastille, noted that the prisoner wore "a mask of black velvet". The masked prisoner died there on 19 November 1703 and was buried the next day under the name of "Marchioly". [3]
The role of the Bastille as a prison changed considerably during the reigns of Louis XV and XVI. One trend was a decline in the number of prisoners sent to the Bastille, with 1,194 imprisoned there during the reign of Louis XV and only 306 under Louis XVI up until the Revolution, annual averages of around 23 and 20 respectively. [65]
Jean Henri Latude by Antoine Vestier. Jean Henri Latude (23 March 1725 – 1 January 1805), often called Danry or Masers de Latude, was a French writer famous for his lengthy confinement in the Bastille and Vincennes, and for his repeated escapes from those prisons.
Bernard René Jourdan, marquis de Launay (8/9 April 1740 – 14 July 1789) was a French Royal Army officer and nobleman who served as the governor of the Bastille.He was the son of a previous governor, and commander of the Bastille's garrison when it was stormed on 14 July 1789.
Archives of the Bastille: The archives of the Bastille date from 1660 onwards. They comprise prisoner dossiers (including those of the marquis de Sade and other famous prisoners), the archives of the Lieutenancy of Police of Paris, the Chambre de l'Arsenal and the Chambre du Châtelet, private papers of the officers of the Bastille, and a ...