It was here, on July 14, 1789, that revolutionaries stormed the infamous Bastille prison, a symbol of the tyranny of the ...

Happy Bastille Day! This public holiday, reminiscent of America’s 4th of July, is celebrated with activities like parties, concerts, balls and fireworks. Residents exchange Happy Bastille Day ...

The imposing, eight-towered Bastille was built in 1357 to protect ... In the early afternoon, the crowd pushed into the fortress’s outer courtyard. Prison guards fired on them, and fighting ...

On July 14, 1789, revolutionaries stormed the Bastille fortress and prison in Paris, heralding the start of the French Revolution and the end of the monarchy. The holiday is central to the French ...

Joseph-Désiré Court / Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Located on Paris’ east side, the Bastille was a towering medieval fortress that once housed prisoners and continued to act as “a ...

The Bastille was a military fortress and prison that held gunpowder and other valuable supplies for the revolutionaries. To the revolutionaries, it also represented the tyranny of the French monarchy.