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Example sentences for: bastille
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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).
With none of the students quite understanding just what called for such a lavish outlay on the old fellow's part, he astonished them even more by raising his glass and toasting July 14 and the storming of the Bastille.
Just to the east, Les Halles, Beaubourg (around the Centre Georges-Pompidou), and place de la Bastille have each been transformed by controversial projects.
The large, circular place de la Bastille is enjoying a new lease on life.
The Bastille was stormed the next day.