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Historical Remarks on the Castle of the Bastille

Posted on July 14, 2011 by

The Bastille: “a place even the innocent must be afraid of.”[1] Parisians whispered of the prison’s rat-infested dungeons, torture machines, bread-and-water rations, and secret murder-rooms from which no prisoner ever emerged. The Bastille embodied the French monarchy’s despotic rule, and … Continue reading →

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