Answer The Bastille {bah-steel'} was a prison in Paris, France. The four-and-a-half-story building, surrounded by its own moat, was located at
… the eastern main entrance to medieval Paris � overlooking the Faubourg St. Antoine of the Marais quarter, a former swamp. In modern-day Paris, all that remains of the Bastille is a pile of stones that were once part of the Tour de la Libert� (Liberty Tower), one of eight towers in the fortress. They were discovered in 1899 during tunnel excavation for Line 1 of the Paris M�tropolitain (subway), under rue St-Antoine. The pile was moved one year later to the tiny Square Henri Galli, about 500 meters from the original fort's location, at the intersection of Quai des C�lestins and Boulevard Henri IV (near the Sully-Morland m�tro stop). The Bastille (little bastion), originally called the Chastel Saint-Antoine, was built between 1370 and 1383 to serve as a fortress for the protection of the city during the Hundred Years' War. More notably however, it was the storming of the Bastille in 1789 which sparked the beginning of the French Revolution that it is most famous for. (MORE) 