BASTILLE

băstēlˈ [O.Fr.,=fortress], fortress and state prison in Paris, located, until its demolition (started in 1789), near the site of the present Place de la Bastille. It was begun c.1369 by Hugh Aubriot, provost of the merchants [mayor] of Paris under King Charles V. Arbitrary and secret imprisonment by lettre de cachet gave rise to stories of horror, but actually the Bastille was generally used for persons of influence, and its regime for most political prisoners was mild. As a symbol of absolutism the Bastille was hated. It had strategic importance, for its guns commanded one of the gates of Paris. On July 14, 1789, a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in the hope of capturing ammunition. The governor was killed; the seven inmates, none of them political prisoners, were freed. The storming of the Bastille marks the beginning of the French Revolution, and July 14—Bastille Day—became the national holiday of republican France.

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books on: Bastille  - 3344 results

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The Colonial Bastille: A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940
Book by Peter Zinoman; University of California Press, 2001
Subjects: National Liberation Movements--Vietnam--History, Nationalism--Vietnam--History, Prisons--Vietnam--History
...Indochina as colonial Bastilles, a move that cleverly...locked in the colonial Bastille. Six years during which...Down with all colonial Bastilles! 80 While typically...utilized the image of the Bastille in their coverage of...
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Confederate Bastille: Jefferson Davis and Civil Liberties
Book by Mark E. Neely Jr.; Marquette University Press, 1993
Subjects: Civil Rights--Confederate States Of America--History, Confederate States Of America--Politics And Government, Davis, Jefferson--1808-1889--Views On Civil Rights, Habeas Corpus--Confederate States Of America
...staples in histories of the Confederacy. 11 The absence of any book on the Confederate Bastille can be explained in only one of two ways: either there was no Bastille in the Confederacy to write about or powerful forces led to the suppression of the...
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The Making of Revolutionary Paris
Book by David Garrioch; University of California Press, 2002
Subjects: Paris (France)--History--1715-1789, Paris (France)--Social Life And Customs--18th Century
13 Bastille 10201, memoire on events at St-Medard...ed. (Paris, 1991), 1:367. 19 Bastille 10171, 22 April 1732. 20 On the cures...Garrioch, Parisian Bourgeoisie, 89 90. 21 Bastille 10201, letters of 8 November 1743...
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The History of Everyday Life: Reconstructing Historical Experiences and Ways of Life
Book by Alf Ludtke, William Templer; Princeton University Press, 1995
Subjects: Historiography, History--Methodology
...recent studies on the history of the Bastille concept 109 have shown what possibilities...systematic evaluation of the numerous anti-Bastille pamphlets, which came to form their...construct the transformation of the Bastille from a key word for the critique of despotism...
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John Nelson, Merchant Adventurer: A Life between Empires
Book by Richard R. Johnson; Oxford University Press, 1991
Subjects: Adventure And Adventurers--Massachusetts--Boston--Biography, Boston (Mass.)--Biography, Boston (Mass.)--History--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775, Merchants--Massachusetts--Boston--Biography, Nelson, John--D. 1734
...Junca, in Ravaisson, Archives de la Bastille IX :513. A little over three years...famed man in the mask would arrive at the Bastille to spend the last five years of his life...Pontchartrain to Gov. Besmans of the Bastille, September 3 and 4, 1695 , Archives...
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The Colonial Bastille: A History of Imprisoment in Vietnam, 1862-1940
Journal article by Alexander Woodside; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 33, 2002
Subjects: The Colonial Bastille: A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940 (Book)
The Colonial Bastille: A History of Imprisoment in Vietnam, 1862-1940 by Alexander Woodside...there is the question of just how unique French Indochinas colonial Bastille was in the history of Southeast Asia as a whole. Comparisons and contrasts...
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Hollywood History and the French Revolution: from the Bastille to the Black Book
Journal article by Leger Grindon; Velvet Light Trap, Vol. not cited, 1991
Subjects: Motion Pictures
...visualize when the production of The Bastille was announced in February were no longer...What does the change in subject from The Bastille to Reign of Terror imply? Both titles...character. Significantly, the fall of the Bastille was a popular mass uprising against established...
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The Prison-House of Revolutionary Memory: The Politics of Oblivion in Michelet, Hugo, and Dumas
Journal article by Goran Blix; French Forum, Vol. 32, 2007
Subjects: Authors, French--Criticism and interpretation, Authors, French--Works, Dumas, Alexandre (French writer, 1802-1870)--Criticism and interpretation, Dumas, Alexandre (French writer, 1802-1870)--Works, French writers--Criticism and interpretation, French writers--Works, Hugo, Victor--Criticism and interpretation, Hugo, Victor--Works, Michelet, Jules--Criticism and interpretation, Michelet, Jules--Works, Prisons--Portrayals
...of the infamous oubliettes beneath the Bastille, which prompted Michelet to view that...notably in Michelets treatment of the Bastille, Hugos depictions of prisons in Notre...doubled by an archival erasure: at the Bastille, he writes in his Histoire de la Revolution...
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Commemorating the French Revolution on the Victorian Stage: Henry Irving's the Dead Heart
Journal article by Kristan Tetens; Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, Vol. 32, 2005
Subjects: Actors, Drama, French Revolution, Irving, Henry (1838-1905), Theater criticism, Victorian period
...colony there remembered the fall of the Bastille by attending a banquet at the Cafe Royal...Chamber of Horrors could see a model of the Bastille, the key of the prisons main gate...the centenary of the capture of the Bastille - The Dead Heart being a story of the...
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"Shades of the Prison-House": "Walking" Stewart, Michel Foucault and the Making of Wordsworth's "Two Consciousnesses"
Journal article by Kelly Grovier; Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 44, 2005
Subjects: English romanticism, 1798-1832--Criticism and interpretation, Foucault, Michel--Criticism and interpretation, Wordsworth, William--Criticism and interpretation
...single event of the fall of the Bastille, has begun to give way to...sported with the dust Of the Bastille I sate in the open sun, And...windowsill of the office of the Bastilles governor. It is said that...of myself engraved on the Bastille Stones; while reminding me...
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France-paris [Le Nozze Di Figaro. Opera Bastille. Paris
Magazine article by Richard Covello; Vol. 44, Fall 2003
Subjects: Finley, Gerald, Opera Bastille
France-paris Le Nozze Di Figaro. Opera Bastille. Paris by Richard Covello INTERNATIONAL FRANCE PARIS Striking...performances at both major Paris opera houses. At the Opera Bastille, this affected some performances of two Mozart works: Don...
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Cardillac at the Bastille
Magazine article by Charles Pitt; Musical Opinion, Vol. 129, January 2006
Cardillac at the Bastille by Charles Pitt Cardillac at the Bastille Eighty years after the premiere, conducted by Fritz...Hindemiths opera Cardillac made it to the Paris Opera at the Bastille on 14 October, although since its Dresden creation...
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Bastille Spirit
Magazine article by Catherine Slessor; The Architectural Review, Vol. 196, August 1994
Subjects: Architects--Works, Buildings--Design and construction, Fuksas, Massimiliano--Works, Paris, France--Buildings, facilities, etc.
Bastille spirit by Catherine Slessor Bastille, in the eastern part of Paris, is one of the citys most densely...monument in the Brobdingnagian form of Carlos Otts Opera de la Bastille (AR August 1989), but it is doubtful if many of its patrons...
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Tristan & Isolde at the Opéra Bastille
Magazine article by Eduardo Benarroch; Musical Opinion, Vol. 128, July 2005
Tristan Isolde at the Opera Bastille by Eduardo Benarroch Tristan Isolde at the Opera Bastille What happens when film forms an W integral...Wagners Tristan und Isolde at Paris Opera Bastille Bill Violas action packed video is projected...
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Never Mind the Bastille, Here's a Sexy Picture: Style and Hedonism Trump History in Sofia Coppola's Flawed Biopic
Magazine article by Ryan Gilbey; New Statesman, Vol. 135, October 23, 2006
Subjects: Marie Antoinette (Motion picture)--Movie reviews, Motion pictures--Movie reviews
Never Mind the Bastille, Heres a Sexy Picture: Style and Hedonism Trump History in Sofia...burst in and announce, "Your Majesty, an angry mob has stormed the Bastille!" and you wonder why Coppola is bothering with reality at all if...
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Bastille Day Dining
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 11, 2008
Subjects: Bastille Day, Restaurants
Bastille Day Dining. Byline: Scott C. Morgan...Hubbard St., Chicago, celebrates Bastille Day with a "FrenchieAEs Menu" and live...E. Chestnut St., Chicago, offers a Bastille Day Celebration today through Monday with...
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Ring in Bastille Day with Vichyssoise
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 13, 2007
Subjects: Bastille Day, Soups
Ring in Bastille Day with Vichyssoise. Byline: Kerry Lester klester@@dailyherald.com Bastille Day Carlos, 429 Temple, Highland Park...to ring in the French national holiday, Bastille Day. Enjoy a special degustation menu on...
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France's Bastille Day
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, July 13, 2009
Subjects: Bastille Day
Frances Bastille Day. France will celebrate Bastille Day tomorrow. On July 14, 1789, the people of Paris rebelled and seized the royal fortress of Bastille. This event led to the historic French Revolution that...
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Bastille Day in Chic Manille
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, August 17, 2011
Subjects: Bastille Day--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations
Bastille Day in Chic Manille. MANILA, Philippines...National Day of France, also known as Bastille Day, French Ambassador Thierry Borja...Delphine de Lorme. This most successful Bastille Days in the Philippines would not have...
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Community Events Take on French Flair for Bastille Day
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 6, 2007
Subjects: Bastille Day--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations
...Community Events Take on French Flair for Bastille Day. Byline: Jean Murphy In recognition...celebrated on July 14. Also known as Bastille Day, July 14 in France commemorates...that occurred after the storming of the Bastille on that date in 1789. Like our Fourth...
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encyclopedia articles on: Bastille  - 22 results

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Bastille
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BASTILLE bastel O.Fr.,=fortress, fortress...near the site of the present Place de la Bastille. It was begun c.1369 by Hugh Aubriot...to stories of horror, but actually the Bastille was generally used for persons of influence...
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Paris , City, France
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Art and History of Judaism, the Place de la Bastille and the Bastille Opera; to the north is Montmartre , the highest...of the French Revolution , city mobs stormed the Bastille (July, 1789) and hauled the royal family from...
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Voltaire, FranÇois Marie Arouet De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...dOrleans, wrongly ascribed to him, Voltaire was sent to the Bastille (1717) for 11 months. There he rewrote his first tragedy...Far from obtaining justice, Voltaire was imprisoned in the Bastille through the influence of the powerful Rohan family, and he...
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Barenboim, Daniel
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...for a number of orchestras before his controversial appointments as director of the Orchestre de Paris (1975 89) and the Bastille Opera (1987 89). In 1991 he succeeded Georg Solti as music director of the Chicago Symphony, ending his tenure there in...
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La Bourdonnais, Bertrand FranÇois, Comte MahÉ De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Francois Dupleix and was removed (1746) from his governorship. On his return to France he was imprisoned (1748) in the Bastille on charges of poor administration and embezzlement. In 1751 he was tried and acquitted, largely through pressure of popular...
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