Le/ La Batsille, France?

Question

I am doing a report on the Bastille. I don't have all the details yet, but is there anything that I should know to put in my report?

Answer 1

Look up the French Revolution...and Bastille Day.

Answer 2

july 14 is bastille day in france

its a national holiday that most frenchmen celebrate

it's when the citizens of france rose up and stormed the bastille so began the french revolution

Answer 3

The Bastille {bah-steel'} was a prison in Paris, known formally as Bastille Saint-Antoine — Number 232, rue Saint-Antoine. The storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 marked the beginning of the French Revolution. The event was commemorated one year later by the Fête de la Fédération. The French national holiday, celebrated annually on July 14, is officially called the Fête Nationale, and commemorates the Fête de la Fédération — but it is commonly known in English as Bastille Day. Bastille (from bastide) is a French word meaning "castle" or "stronghold". In most accounts of French revolutionary history, La Bastille generally refers to the prison in Paris.

Early History

The Bastille (little bastion), originally called the Chastel Saint-Antoine, was built between 1370 and 1383 (under kings Charles V and Charles VI) to serve as a fortress for the protection of the city against Anglo-Burgundian forces during the Hundred Years' War.

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. It had eight closely-spaced towers, roughly 77.1 ft. (23.5m) high, which surrounded two courtyards and the armoury. The towers were named as follows:

1. Tour du Coin

2. Tour de la Chapelle

3. Tour du Trésor 4. Tour de la Comte

5. Tour du Puits

6. Tour de la Liberté 7. Tour de la Bertaudière

8. Tour de la Basinière

        

Aerial view of the

Bastille complex by

Pierre-François Palloy

(click to enlarge)  

  

The outer stone walls, 15 feet (4.5m) thick at the base, were pierced with narrow slits by which the cells were lighted. In early times, the Bastille had entrances on three sides, but after 1580 only one, with a drawbridge over the moat on the side toward the river, which led to outer courts and a second drawbridge, and wound by a defended passage to an outer entrance opposite the Rue des Tournelles.

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