bastille

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1. bastille - Noun

2. bastille - Verb

3. Bastille - Proper noun

Meaning

a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner)

a fortress built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries; it was destroyed July 14, 1789 at the start of the French Revolution

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Long ago I abandoned my masterpiece a roll of paper thirty yards long which I filled completely with minute handwriting in my dungeon years ago It vanished when the Bastille fell it vanished as everything written everything thought and planned will disappear. Peter Weiss

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you. Brandon Sanderson

There's no bread, let 'em eat cake There's no end to what they'll take Flaunt the fruits of noble birth Wash the salt into the earth -- Bastille Day (1975) Neil Peart

You complain that I have committed illegal acts. Of course I have. We all have. The Revolution is illegal. The fall of the Bastille was illegal. The formation of this republic was illegal, as illegal as liberty itself. Citizens, did you want a revolution without a revolution? Maximilien Robespierre

I want to be remembered going off the front, not the other way. After winning my seventh king-of-the-mountains title and winning a stage on Bastille Day, I asked myself, 'What more can I do in cycling?' I want to go out at the top. Richard Virenque

French politics 1774-1789: from the accession of Louis XVI to the fall of the Bastille. Source: Internet

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