compiler opened this issue on Jul 14, 2003 ยท 17 posts
compiler posted Mon, 14 July 2003 at 9:38 AM
La Bastille was a fortress-prison, symbol of the authoritarian power of absolute monarchs, whose fall in the hands of Paris' people signed the beginning of the French Revolution. No stone remain of this fortress, only a place (la place de la Bastille). I never heard that this day was ever called Bastille day or St-Bastille, but it might have been so in the early days of the Revolution.