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Place De La Bastille

Place De La Bastille. By: Cole Fontenot. Place De La Bastille. The Bastille was first built during the hundred years war to as a stronghold to protect from invades, and shelter. Place De La Bastille.

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Place De La Bastille

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  1. Place De La Bastille By: Cole Fontenot

  2. Place De La Bastille • The Bastille was first built during the hundred years war to as a stronghold to protect from invades, and shelter.

  3. Place De La Bastille • The fortress was declared a state prison in 1417, this role was expanded first under the English occupiers of the 1420s and 1430s, and then under Louis XI in the 1460s.

  4. Place De La Bastille • The defences of the Bastille were fortified in response to the English and Imperial threat during the 1550s, with a bastion constructed to the east of the fortress. The Bastille played a key role in the rebellion of the Fronde and the battle of the faubourg Saint-Antoine, which was fought beneath its walls in 1652.

  5. Place De La Bastille • A crowd of around 600 people gathered outside around mid-morning, calling for the surrender of the prison, the removal of the guns and the release of the arms and gunpowder. In the early afternoon, the crowd broke into the undefended outer courtyard and the chains on the drawbridge to the inner courtyard were cut.

  6. Place De La Bastille • Souvenirs of the fortress were transported around France and displayed as icons of the overthrow of despotism. Over the next century, the site and historical legacy of the Bastille featured prominently in French revolutions, political protests and popular fiction, and it remained an important symbol for the French Republican movement.

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