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Bastille

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A c. 1790 drawing of the east view of the Bastille.

Borrowed from French Bastille, from bastille (fortress): see further at the English entry bastille. The building was known in full as the Bastille Saint-Antoine, and was a former fortress used as a prison by the French monarchy in the 17th and 18th centuries.[1]

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the Bastille

  1. A former fortress and prison in Paris, France, the storming of which in 1789 began the French Revolution.

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French

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From bastille (fortress).

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la Bastille f

  1. Bastille (former prison)
  2. Parisian district around place de la Bastille, where the prison stood

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