On this day in 1789, Parisians stormed the Bastille, a fortress-prison that held political prisoners jailed by the royal government of Louis XVI.

T he French national holiday of Bastille Day—celebrated each year on July 14, or le quatorze juillet—may spell fireworks and and a large military parade for some, but for most, it still marks ...

One of George Washington’s prized possessions was an ink-wash drawing of the Bastille, the Parisian prison stormed by French revolutionaries in 1789. He mounted it in the entryway of his Mount ...

Place de la Bastille The Place de la Bastille is often considered the epicenter of the French Revolution. It was here, on ...

The fortress was considered a symbol of an absolutist monarchy. President Trump to travel to Paris for Bastille Day The seizure marked a major turning point in the revolution, which eventually led ...

During excavations for construction of the Paris Metro in 1899, stones from one of the Bastille's eight towers were discovered and later moved to a park for display. They can still be seen ...

On July 14, 1789, just two days after the revolution began, a mob broke into the Bastille Fortress in Paris, which held stockpiles of weapons as well as political prisoners.

The Bastille, built in the 1300s, was a structure constructed to protect the city of Paris from attack by the English. Later, the fortress, a symbol of King Louis XVI's rule, was used as a prison ...

PARIS (AP) — Paris hosted an extra-special guest for France’s national holiday Sunday — the Olympic flame lighting up the city’s grandiose military parade for Bastille Day.

The Bastille has become such an important historical symbol that visitors to Paris seeking to get a look inside the fortress are often surprised to discover that it’s .