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6 matches to Bastille
Bastille. 1370. Paris fortified residence for Charles V, became a state prison, arsenal 1397. Stormed July 14, 1789. Symbolic overthrow of monarch’s power. Lettres de Cachet.
Desmoulins, Camille. 1760-94. French journalist, lawyer and conventionnel. Speech inspired the storming of the Bastille. Executed as Moderate.
Festival of Federation. 14 July,1790. Celebration of first anniversary of Storming the Bastille. 300,000 people.
Lettres de Cachet. 16C-1789. French royal warrants for arrest. Often political. Bastille.
Man in the Iron Mask. Anonymous Bastille prisoner 1698-1703.
Pont de la Concorde. Paris. Built 1787-91 from stones of Bastille so people could forever trample ruins.