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	Bastille
		Built around 1370 as part of the defences of Paris, the structure was converted into a prison in the 17th century, housing mainly political prisoners.
		Its storming, and subsequent demolition, in 1789 by a large crowd was a key point in the French Revolution.
		Many historians believe that the storming of the Bastille was more important as a rallying point and symbolic act of rebellion than any practical act of defiance.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ba/Bastille.html (352 words)

	Bastille Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bastille Day, on the Fourteenth of July, is the French symbol of the end of the Monarchy and the beginning of the First Republic.
		On July 14, 1789, the storming of the Bastille immediately took on a great historical dimension; it was proof that power no longer resided in the King as God's representative, but in the people, in accordance with the theories developed by their philosophers of the eighteenth century.
		For all citizens of France, the storming of the Bastille came to symbolize liberty, democracy in the struggle against oppression.
	www.crystalinks.com /bastilleday.html (239 words)

	Bastille Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Bastille was a prison and a symbol of the absolute and arbitrary power of Louis the 16th's Ancient Regime.
		Although the Bastille only held seven prisoners at the time of its capture, the storming of the prison was a symbol of liberty and the fight against oppression for all French citizens; like the Tricolore flag, it symbolized the Republic's three ideals: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity for all French citizens.
		Thus the storming of the Bastille marked the end of absolute monarchy, the birth of the sovereign Nation, and, eventually, the creation of the (First) Republic, in 1792.
	www.festivefever.com /bastille/history.htm (448 words)

	Storming of the Bastille - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 was an important symbolic development in the French Revolution.
		The governor was Bernard-René de Launay, son of the previous governor and actually born within the Bastille.
		De Launay was seized and dragged towards the Hôtel de Ville in a storm of abuse.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Storming_of_the_Bastille (2394 words)

	Chapter 4 Page 1
		Concentrated in the eastern part of the city, near the Bastille and in the neighborhood of Saint-Antoine, artisans and laborers were the industrial backbone of the capital.
		Lightly armed, but still impregnable to the thronging crowd, the Bastille could have held out longer, but when the threat to their position seemed to be increasing, its defenders did not really have the stomach for a fight and lowered the drawbridge, allowing the crowd into the courtyard.
		As the radical press increased the vehemence and volume of its reports, this interpretation soon emerged as the predominant one, and across Europe, especially in Versailles, the storming of the Bastille was portrayed as an immense defeat for absolutist authority.
	chnm.gmu.edu /revolution/chap4a.html (704 words)

	Bastille, Paris
		Inside the Bastille, Métro is a huge mosaic (by Odile Jacquot, 1988), a free interpretation of the Revolutionary flag in the national colors of blue, white and red.
		The Bastille ("small bastion") was begun in 1370, in the reign of Charles V, in order to reinforce the newly built town wall at this point, at the end of Rue Saint-Antoine.
		The victors of the Bastille, drunk with success and hailed as conquerors in the taverns, were driven round the town in carriages, accompanied by prostitutes and sansculottes who joined in the triumph.
	www.planetware.com /paris/bastille-f-p-bas.htm (805 words)

	Wikinfo \| Bastille (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Its storming, and subsequent demolition, in 1789 by a large crowd is the symbol for the beginning of the French Revolution.
		On July 2nd, 1789, the Bastille prisoner Marquis de Sade reportedly shouted out of his cell to the crowd outside, "They are killing the prisoners here!", causing somewhat of a riot.
		The confrontation between the commoners and the ancien régime ultimately led to the people of Paris storming the Bastille on July 14, 1789.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Bastille (439 words)

	CNN - France celebrates the storming of the Bastille - July 14, 1999
		Their destination was a 14th-century fortress, the Bastille, a prison known for its legends of terror and torture.
		And a year after the storming of the Bastille, France's revolutionary leaders marked the day with a show of national unity.
		Bastille Day became an official national holiday five years later, reconnecting France with the ideals of freedom and equality that led a group of ordinary citizens to perform an extraordinary act.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9907/14/bastille.day/index.html (450 words)

	Place de la Bastille, Paris
		The storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 marked the beginning of the French Revolution.
		The Bastille (little bastion), originally called the Chastel Saint-Antoine, was built between 1370 and 1383 (under kings Charles V and Charles VI) to serve as a fortress for the protection of the city against Anglo-Burgundian forces during the Hundred Years' War.
		In addition to political prisoners, the Bastille also housed religious prisoners, writers of "seditious" and overtly sexual material, and young rakes held at the request of their families.
	www.discoverfrance.net /France/Paris/Monuments-Paris/Bastille.shtml (899 words)

	bastille - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Bastille, former French prison fortress in Paris that became a symbol of royal tyranny.
		It was built about 1370 as part of the fortifications on...
		- former prison in Paris: a prison in Paris that was stormed and destroyed by a mob on July 14, 1789 at the beginning of the French Revolution
	ca.encarta.msn.com /bastille.html (100 words)

	The Bastille (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bastille means any fortress, but became known as a particular part of the fortress around Paris, France.
		They soon stormed the gates, crossed the drawbridge, and captured the Bastille after a bloody battle, and released the prisoners.
		Bastille Day is still celebrated every year in France as well as my home town in Kaplan, Louisiana.
	members.tripod.com /rajincajun3/bastille.htm (246 words)

	HolidayCity Flash - The Storming of the Bastille
		The storming of the Bastille by enraged commoners on July 14 1789 was the spark that began the long and violent struggle to overthrow the ancient aristocratic regime, and triggered the eventual birth of modern democracy.
		The Bastille’s fl reputation did not actually stem from the physical conditions of the prisoners, which were rather outstanding by the standards of the barbaric penal system of the time.
		In charge of the Bastille was Governor de Launay, son of the previous supervisor and actually born in the Bastille.
	www.holidaycityflash.com /france/storming_bastille1.htm (1150 words)

	Bastille Day \| July 14, 1789 \| Storming of the Bastille \| French Revolution \| Holiday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bastille was a prison where kings and queens usually locked up people who didn't agree with their decisions.
		To a lot of French, the Bastille prison was a symbol of the corrupt system run by the kings and queens.
		When the prison was stormed on July 14th there were only seven prisoners left in the Bastille.
	www.kidzworld.com /site/p1047.htm (334 words)

	paris - monuments - opera bastille
		Opéra Bastille is a modern opera house in Paris, France.
		The building was inaugurated on July 13, 1989, on the 200th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille.
		Construction began in 1984 with the demolition of Paris Bastille train station, which was opened in 1859 and closed on December 14, 1969, and where art expositions were held thereafter until its demolition.
	www.monument-paris.com /opera-bastille.htm (204 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Storming of the Bastille - A745049
		For many people the main event of the French Revolution is the storming of the Bastille on July 14th 1789.
		The Bastille was a castle with eight towers, looming large over the working class district of St Antoine to the East of Paris.
		Meanwhile, the handful of prisoners kept in the Bastille were freed; two madmen, a profligate and four forgers.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A745049 (675 words)

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		The Bastille was originally built for defense purposes against the English at the end of the fourteenth century, and then Charles VI turned it into a prison(390).
		For this reason on July 14, 1789 the Bastille was surrounded by mobs of Parisian citizens demanding the release of the remaining political prisoners.
		The storming of the Bastille and its eventual collapse caused the monument to take on a new symbolism for the people of Paris: one of national sovereignty and revolutionary tradition.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/rschwart/hist255/kat_anna/bastille.html (416 words)

	Chapter 12: THE TAKING OF THE BASTILLE
		ROM the dawn of July 14, the attention of the Paris insurrection was directed upon the Bastille, that gloomy fortress with its solid towers of formidable height which reared itself among the houses of a populous quarter at the entrance of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine.
		It is true that the garrison of the Bastille numbered only one hundred and fourteen men, of whom eighty-four were pensioners and thirty Swiss, and that the Governor had done nothing towards victualling the place; but this proves only that the possibility of a serious attack on the fortress had been regarded as absurd.
		When the crowd thronged into the Government Court, the defenders of the Bastille began to fire upon them, and there was even an attempt to raise the great drawbridge of the Forecourt, so as to prevent the crowd from leaving the Government Court and obviously with the intention of either imprisoning or massacring them.
	dwardmac.pitzer.edu /anarchist_archives/kropotkin/frenchrev/xii.html (2825 words)

	BASTILLE DAY -- The Bastille is located in Paris -- It was being used as a prison when the strongly-fortified high ...
		This display of national unity was deliberately organized on the first anniversary of the fall of the Bastille, the first revolutionary act by the people against the arbitrary power of the royalty, an act that stamps France as one of the cradles of liberty.
		Bastille Day, 14 July, was officially proclaimed the national holiday in 1880 and the motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" was restored in 1848.
		The storming of the Bastille evokes man's pride of self-accomplishment: the throwing-off of the yoke of tyranny.
	www.hightowertrail.com /Bastil.htm (1784 words)

	Bastille Day \| July 14, 1789 \| France \| Celebration \| History \| Storming of the Bastille \| French Revolution \| Food (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Bastille was a prison in Paris where the king and queen usually locked up people who didn't agree with their decisions.
		On July 14, 1789 the French Revolution began when a large group stormed the Bastille.
		It wasn't until 1880, nearly 100 years after the storming, that Bastille Day became a national holiday.
	www.kidzworld.com /site/p3662.htm (357 words)

	Bastille Day and the French Revolution
		Miguel A. Faria, Jr., M.D. The Ancien Régime and the Storming of the Bastille
		July 14 is Bastille Day, a national holiday in France that commemorates 215 years from the day a Parisian mob stormed the "infamous" prison and commenced the upheaval of the French Revolution.
		General Westermann, one of the military leaders of the storming of the Tuileries and the overthrow of the monarchy, August 10, 1793, voluntarily joined his friends and went with the Dantonists to receive the cold blade of the guillotine.
	www.haciendapub.com /frenchrev2.html (4729 words)

	Bastille - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bastille (48°51′12″N, 2°22′9″E) was a prison in Paris, known formally as Bastille Saint-Antoine—Number 232, Rue Saint-Antoine—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.
		Bastille is a French word meaning "castle" or "stronghold"; used as a single word ("la Bastide" in French), it refers to the prison.
		==Historical assessment== yo son Many historians believe that the storming of the Bastille was more important as a rallying point and symbolic act of rebellion than any practical act of defiance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bastille (1423 words)

	.:: chuggnutt ::. \| Bastille Day
		Today is Bastille Day in France, their equivalent to our Fourth of July/Independence Day.
		The Bastille was, in particular, known for holding political prisoners whose writings had displeased the royal government.
		The storming of the Bastille was more important as a rallying point and symbolic act of rebellion than a practical act of defiance.
	www.chuggnutt.com /2005/07/14/bastille_day.html (334 words)

	The Storming of the Bastille (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789
		This is one of many images commemorating the storming of the Bastille.
		This image, and many like it, serve to document an historical event, as well as to dramatize it, glorify, romanticize it, and install it in the collective political memory of the French people as a defining moment in their political existence.
	www.universityofthepoor.org /schools/artists/FrenchRev/bastille.htm (84 words)

	Storming of the Bastille
		The Bastille had been prepared for over a week, anticipating about a hundred angry subjects and along the thick rock walls of the gargantuan fortress and between the towers were twelve more guns that were capable of launching 24-ounce case shots at any who dared to attack.
		The entire workforce of the Bastille had stealthily and furiously been repairing the Bastille and reinforcing it, all to prepare for a minor attack from a hundred or so angry citizens.
		However the Bastille was threatened by more than the numerous crowds: three hundred guards had left their posts earlier that day, out of fear and from the rumors.
	library.thinkquest.org /C006257/revolution/storming_of_bastille.shtml (759 words)

	Embassy of France in the US - Bastille Day: July 14
		But above all, Bastille Day, or the Fourteenth of July, is the symbol of the end of the monarchy and the beginning of the Republic.
		The storming of the Bastille, on July 14, 1789, immediately became a symbol of historical dimensions; it was proof that power no longer resided in the King or in God, but in the people, in accordance with the theories developed by the Philosophes of the 18th century.
		For all citizens of France, the storming of the Bastille symbolizes, liberty,democracy and the struggle against all forms of oppression.
	www.info-france-usa.org /atoz/14july.asp (472 words)

	Bastille Day: French Independence Day
		It's called that because it celebrates the storming of the Bastille, a famous prison, during the French Revolution, in 1789.
		At one time, it had a sizable number of political prisoners, including the great writer Voltaire, who were there for no other reason than that they had spoken out against the government.
		This was the real reason for the storming of the Bastille.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /articles/holidays/bastilleday.htm (421 words)

	The Fall of the Bastille (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		On July 14, 1789, an angry mob stormed the bastille in search of weapons and the prisoners who were arrested by Louis XVI.
		the bastille was a torturous and inhumane prison that was a despised symbol of despotism.
		Storming the bastille came to represent the triumph of the people over despotism and oppression.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~etanter/bastille.html (66 words)

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