Example sentences for: bastille

How can you use “bastille” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Louder, less expensive, younger, and weirder places come and go around Bastille and Oberkampf.

  • In the realm of classical music, Paris has come back into its own, with many fine concerts at Salle Pleyel and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, opera at the new Opéra-Bastille, and the ballet at the Opéra-Garnier.

  • The large, circular place de la Bastille is enjoying a new lease on life.

  • Window-shop your way past the goldsmiths and furriers of the rue de la Paix to the ornate opera house (now named after its architect Charles Garnier to distinguish it from the new Opéra-Bastille; see page 52).

  • Two months later, the blindness of the king’s conservative advisors and the king’s own weakness and vacillation led to the explosion of centuries of frustration and rage — which culminated in the storming of the Bastille, the regime’s prison-fortress in Paris.


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