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Bastille
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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The Building), a State prison in Paris, built originally as a fortress of defence to the city, by order of Charles V., between 1369 and 1382, but used as a place of imprisonment from the first; a square structure, with towers and dungeons for the incarceration of the prisoners, the whole surrounded by a moat, and accessible only by drawbridges; "tyranny's stronghold"; attacked by a mob on 14th July 1789; taken chiefly by noise; overturned, as "the city of Jericho, by miraculous sound"; demolished, and the key of it sent to Washington; the taking of it was the first event in the Revolution. See Carlyle's "French Revolution" for the description of the fall of it.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Bastille'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/b/bastille.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Bastille'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/b/bastille.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
