He was Bernard-Rene de Launay. He died in the storming of the prison and was born in the Bastille where his father was governor. At the age of 8 he was appointed to an honorary position in the Kings Musketeers. In 1776 he became governor of the Bastille.
It is called Bastille Day and is celebrated when the Bastille was stormed to free,prisoners and it began the French Revolution on July 14, 1789.
The storming of the Bastille, the French Tricolor.
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La Bastille Saint-Antoine - best known today because of the people storming it on July 14, 1789
Governor
Bernard de Launay the Governor of the Bastille.
The governor was Bernard-René de Launay, son of the previous governor and actually born within the Bastille. During the storming, he was captured and decapitated, his head was marched around the city on a pike.
He was the Governor of the Bastille when it was Stormed on 14 July 1789. After he had surrendered the Bastille he and several guards were lynched.
Marquis Bernard-Rene de Launay, Governor of the Bastille.
Madame Defarge is the character who decapitated the governor of the Bastille in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. She sought revenge for the harm he caused to her family, leading to a pivotal moment in the novel's plot.
Bernard René Jourdan, Marquis de Launay - usually known (democratically) as Delaunay. He was born in the Bastille, where his father was governor, and became Governor himself in 1776 after a career in the Musketeers. he surrendered the Bastille on a promise of good treatment, and must have been somewhat surprised when he was dragged a mile across town, butchered and had his head cut off with a very blunt knife.
The Bastille was a prison.
Charles V built the bastille
The Bastille (formally known as the Bastille Saint-Antoine) was a fortress in Paris, France.
The Bastille was a prison.
The Bastille was a prison and fortress built in the 14th century to protect Paris's eastern entrance. At the height of its use, it held political prisoners, but by 1789, it was mostly vacant except for supplies like gunpowder. In fact, the Bastille was supposed to be demolished and replaced with a town square. Revolutionaries had other ideas, though—they wanted to get at that gunpowder, so they stormed the Bastille on July 14, 1789, losing about 100 people in the process. However, they ended up winning the day and proceeded to execute the Bastille's governor and dismantle the building entirely. Interestingly enough, they don't even call it Bastille Day in France—they use la Fête nationale or le 14 juillet.
Bastille ended in 1789.