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 ...

Sunday is the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille fortress in Paris on July 14, 1789, which marked the beginning of the French Revolution that toppled the monarchy.

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.

Bastille Day celebrates the rebellion that ignited the French Revolution. On July 14, 1789, thousands of Parisians stormed the prison to protest King Louis XVI's abuse of power.

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 ...

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.

Friends of Bastille Day Baton Rouge will host a Bastille Day Mass at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at St. Joseph Cathedral, 401 Main St., downtown. The Mass, to be televised on Cox Channel 15, will be ...

Located on Paris’ east side, the Bastille was a towering medieval fortress that once housed prisoners and continued to act as “a symbol of arbitrary royal power” in the eyes of working-class ...

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. Just 12 days ...