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Coloured engraving depicting a large crowd of armed revolutionaries storming the Bastille prison, with smoke and chaos in front of the fortress walls.
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Bastille

historical prison, Paris, France
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Bastille, medieval fortress on the east side of Paris that became, in the 17th and 18th centuries, a French state prison and a place of detention for important persons charged with various offenses. The Bastille, stormed by an armed mob of Parisians on July 14, 1789, in the opening days of the French Revolution, was a symbol of the despotism of the ruling Bourbon monarchy and held an important place in the ideology of the...

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