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Bastile Bastille
Bastile Bastille Bas*tile" Bas*tille", n. [F. bastille fortress, OF. bastir to build, F. b?tir.] 1. (Feud. Fort.) A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place. The high bastiles . . . which overtopped the walls. --Holland. 2. ``The Bastille', formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison.

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- The Bastille (/bæˈstiːl/, French: [bastij] ) was a fortress in Paris, known formally as the Bastille Saint-Antoine. It pla**** an important role in the...
- Bastille Day". The Telegraph. 14 July 2009. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2016. "Lorry attacks people on Bastile Day...
- The Book of the Bastiles; The history of the working of the new poor law was a book written by G.R.W. Baxter and published in 1841 . It was a collection...
- 1789) was the French governor of the Bastille. He was the son of a previous governor, and commander of the Bastille's garrison when the prison-fortress in...
- views within "The Destruction of the Bastile" are more moderate. Although the poem was composed following the Bastille's destruction, it was not published...
- 1589–1661, Yale University Press Davenport, Richard Alfred, The History of the Bastile and of its Prin****l Captives, Kessinger Publishing James, Alan (2004)...
- 12 July 2017. US President Donald Trump's state visit to France during Bastile Day was met with protests, protesters gathered around Place de la République...
- 391, n.2. Howard, F. K. (Frank Key) (1863). Fourteen Months in American Bastiles. London: H.F. Mackintosh. Retrieved August 18, 2014. Nevins, The War for...
- December 1862 and published in 1863 titled Fourteen Months in American Bastiles, two of the publishers selling the book were then arrested. Howard commented...
- Howard described these events in his 1863 book Fourteen Months in American Bastiles, where he noted that he was imprisoned in Fort McHenry, the same fort where...