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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.
Béguines. 12C- Belgian Catholic women’s charitables communities. Condemned 1311. Still exist.
Bruegel, Jan (Velvet). 1568-1625. Flemish painter of landscape and still life.
Castillon, Battle. 1453. Final English defeat in the Hundred Years War.
Chardin, Jean. 1699-1779. French painter of still life and domestic scenes. Le Buffet 1728.
Cortes, Hernan. 1485-1547. Castillian captain, conquered Mexico,1519-21.
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.
Heem, Jan de. 1606-83. Dutch still life painter.
Hercules, Tower of. Roman lighthouse in Spain, still in use.
Lettres de Cachet. 16C-1789. French royal warrants for arrest. Often political. Bastille.
Man in the Iron Mask. Anonymous Bastille prisoner 1698-1703.
Napoleonic Code. 1804-. French laws standardized. Personal liberty, equality, justice, divorce, marriage, property rights. Still in use.
Pont de la Concorde. Paris. Built 1787-91 from stones of Bastille so people could forever trample ruins.
Sitwell, Edith. 1887-1964. English poet. Still Falls the Rain.
Still, Andrew. 1828-1917. US osteopathy founder.
Watling Street. Roman road from London to NW England. Part still in use.
Whiskey Ring. 1875. 110 convicted in US bribery scandal to save distillers excise taxes.