The Bastille - though it was scarcely used as a prison, with only 7 inmates at the time. It was stormed because, being a defensive fortress, it had a gunposder store.
The Parisian Prison stormed by French Revolutionary rioters in 1789 was the BASTILLE. This event is still commemorated in France today as Bastille Day on July 14.
La Bastille was a castle and prison in Paris. It was dismantled soon after having been stormed by the people of Paris and members of the National guards, on the 14th of July, 1789.
The Bastille on 14 July 1789.
The Bastille on 14 July 1789.
The Bastille. It was a prison in Paris.
The Bastille located in Paris. It was demolished in 1789.
The Bastille, in Paris. The most celebrated prison to be stormed was the Bastille.
La Bastille, a prison-fortress in paris, was stormed by the people of Paris with the help of part of the 'Garde Royale' regiment.The storming of the Bastille, a fortress used as a prison, where rioters thought they could find powder and ammunition to defend themselves against the foreign regiments employed by the monarchy.The Bastille.
La Bastille was a castle and prison in Paris. It was dismantled soon after having been stormed by the people of Paris and members of the National guards, on the 14th of July, 1789.
The Bastille
The prison was the fortress of La Bastille, which was stormed on the 14th of July, 1789.
The prison was the fortress of La Bastille, which was stormed on the 14th of July, 1789.
The Bastille on 14 July 1789.
I think you mean 'Bastille' The Bastille was a prison/fortress in Paris, France, which was stormed at the start of the French Revolution in 1789. The Bastille building do NOT exist now. However, in Paris there is the 'Place de la Republique', which marks the site of the Bastille.
232 Rue Saint-Antoine was the Bastille, which was more of a powder-store than a prison (40 tons of gunpowder, only 7 prisoners).
The Bastille on 14 July 1789.
The Bastille was a political prison that had become a symbol to French peasants of the tyranny of the monarchy. It was stormed and the prisons in it freed in 1789.
It got stormed on July 14th 1789.