bastille
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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
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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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.
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On Bastille Day the little bastille in the Caribbean fell.
From Time Magazine Archive
Without the authority of Dunois the garrison had undertaken an assault upon the bastille of Saint-Loup, which stood most directly across the path of those who would bring supplies into Orl�ans.
From Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) by Butler, Pierce
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