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Bastile Bastille Bas*tile" Bas*tille", n. [F. bastille fortress, OF. bastir to build, F. b?tir.] 1. (Feud. Fort.) A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place. The high bastiles . . . which overtopped the walls. --Holland. 2. ``The Bastille', formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison.

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- The Bastille (/bæˈstiːl/, French: [bastij] ) was a fortress in Paris, known as the Bastille Saint-Antoine. It pla**** an important role in the internal...
- The Book of the Bastiles; The history of the working of the new poor law was a book written by G.R.W. Baxter and published in 1841 . It was a collection...
- The Destruction of the Bastile was composed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1789. The poem describes Coleridge's feelings of hopes for the French Revolution...
- Bastile Glacier is located on the north slopes of Mount Baker in the North Cascades, U.S. state of Washington. List of glaciers in the United States "Bastile...
- September 27, 2022. Howard, F. K. (1863). Fourteen Months in American Bastiles. London: H.F. Mackintosh. Retrieved August 18, 2014. Nevins, The War for...
- Cr**** B**** Hollow B**** Lake Fen B**** Lake Peatlands B**** Lake Preserve Bastile Lake Battle Bluff Prairie Battle Cr**** Hemlocks Bauer-Brockway Barrens...
- Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). pp. 483–484. "French Club Will Observe Bastile Day". Baton Rouge Morning Advocate (sec. D, p. 10). 2 July 1964. "Hanover...
- The purchase price paid by de Launay for the position of governor of the Bastile was 300,000 livres. Jonathn Beckman, pages 159 & 205, "How to Ruin a Queen"...
- 1589–1661, Yale University Press Davenport, Richard Alfred, The History of the Bastile and of its Prin****l Captives, Kessinger Publishing James, Alan (2004)...
- Cascades of the U.S. state of Washington. The glacier is between Mazama and Bastile Glaciers, a half mile south of Hadley Peak. List of glaciers in the United...