Place de la Bastille

Place de la Bastille

Year

1840

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The great open square marks the site of the Bastille, the royal fortress-prison whose storming on 14 July 1789 opened the French Revolution; the building was pulled down in the following year and its outline is now traced in the paving. At …

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