bastile

The demolition of the Bastile was now ordered and begun.

"The secrets of the Bastile are never handed over with the keys of the governorship."

"Monseigneur, the time may come when the governor of the Bastile may prove a very excellent acquaintance."

"Thanks to your cares, my, dear philosopher, the abbe has left the Bastile, and his imprisonment will have no other consequence.

The unhappy wretch who entered the Bastile ceased, as he crossed the threshold, to be a man - he became a number.

"My dear D'Herblay, the very day on which a man enters the Bastile, he is no longer protected by his past."

The young fellow has by no means been unhappy there; the best lodging the Bastile affords has been his.

Aramis looked at the man, who seemed to think that being a jailer in the Bastile was not being in prison.

"I rescued from the hands of Mazarin's police a noble lord whom they were conducting back to the Bastile, where he had been for five years."

The Destruction of the Bastile was composed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1789.

Every folly you committed would embroil you with the court and they would put you into the Bastile, instead of Vincennes.

As to the Bastile, they are not there, though the Bastile is especially for the Frondeurs.

"Your highness's most devoted servant, "In the Bastile, as elsewhere, "Comte de Rochefort.

The glacier is between Mazama and Bastile Glaciers, a half mile south of Hadley Peak.

Three meals are served at the Bastile, and, as the prisoners, having nothing to do, are always eating, a ten-franc man costs me seven francs and a half."

De Wardes then saw that nothing could well be more seriously intended than the threat in question for the Bastile, even at that period, was already held in dread.

Memoirs of the Bastile, a translation of an account published under the sanction of the National Assembly of France, Whitby, 1802.

In the two years she had been gone the States Generals had met, the Bastile had fallen, the National Assembly had begun to make France over.

There is a congestion of prisoners in the Bastile, who were cooped up in the time of Monsieur de Richelieu; I don't even know their names."

You would have almost thought they were pulling down the cursed Bastile, such wild cries they raised, as the now useless brick and mortar were being hurled into the sea.

"Madame, these conferences will bring us peace; when we have peace we shall regain Paris; with Paris, the Bastile, and our four bullies shall rot therein."

"Would it be better to remain here," said Athos, "and take a turn in the Bastile or the dungeon of Vincennes for having favored the escape of Monsieur de Beaufort?

"Let me never hear any ill words against the fare of the Bastile," said he, half closing his eyes; "happy are the prisoners who can get only half a bottle of such Burgundy every day."

The schoolboy Coleridge, in particular, leaned towards radical views and would later become more and more radical although his views within "The Destruction of the Bastile" are more moderate.