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Example sentences for: bastille

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Long a run-down area, it was given a shot in the arm by the construction of the Opéra-Bastille, one of President Mitterrand’s great projects.
Just to the east, Les Halles, Beaubourg (around the Centre Georges-Pompidou), and place de la Bastille have each been transformed by controversial projects.
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.
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.
in the dual role of the overweening 17 th century boy king Louis of France and his twin brother, Philippe, who was first spirited away at birth by a father fearful of internecine struggles and subsequently locked in the bowels of the Bastille, his features concealed by the eponymous iron mask.