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La Bastille was a castle and prison in the heart of Paris. Used as a prison, it came to symbolise the unjust power of kings, hence the French verb “embastiller” (put in prison without any judgement). The people of Paris stormed the Bastille on the 14th of Julay 1789, marking the official beginning of the French revolution.
