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But when it came, Youlou's exit had all the revolutionary trimmings, including a storming of the local bastille and a mob outside the palace howling for bread.

From Time Magazine Archive

He declared that France "must not become a prisoner in the great bastille over which would float the Anglo-Saxon flags."

From Time Magazine Archive

On Bastille Day the little bastille in the Caribbean fell.

From Time Magazine Archive

Another is an American who has built a rambling bastille of words in which meanings are thrown into dungeons, to be reached only through endless labyrinths of painstaking prose.

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The good result of this provision was manifested on a memorable occasion, when the duke of Exeter was captain of the city of Paris, and Fastolfe captain of the bastille of St. Anthoine.

From The Boke of Noblesse by Unknown

In less than a year the greater part of the northern walls, with gates, bastilles and fosses, was completed—the greatest feat, says Froissart, the provost ever achieved.

From The Story of Paris by Katherine Kimball

Before she reached the field the day had been lost and won, the English were in full retreat, and the battle now lay around the bastilles of Saint Loup.

From Joan of Arc by Ronald Sutherland Gower

She suspected Dunois of intending to engage Fastolf without her, and in her nervous eagerness to be up and doing for France she precipitated a successful attack upon the bastilles.

From Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) by Pierce Butler

For two days the bastilles erected by the besiegers against the place were repeatedly attacked by the besieged.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Robert Black

The English had built a fence of strong fortresses called bastilles around Orleans—fortresses which closed all the gates of the city but one.

From Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 by Mark Twain