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| | Bastille, Paris, Launay, Category, crowd, Palloy, Swiss, people, location, place, known, Louis, Fête - Bastille (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | The Bastille was a prison in Paris, known formally as Bastille Saint-Antoineâ”Number 232, Rue Saint-Antoineâ”best known today because of the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, which along with the Tennis Court Oath is considered the beginning of the French Revolution. |
 | | The crowd invades the Bastille, delivers the seven prisoners of common right who were locked up there, seizes the powder and of the balls, takes along to the Town hall, the garrison of the Bastille. |
 | | On the way, the governor, Bernard-Rene Jordan de Launay is massacred and several invalids are put to death. |
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