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Memoirs of the Bastille
Language: en
Pages: 188
Authors: Simon Nicolas Henri Linguet
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-08-22 - Publisher: Chez Jim

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The book that brought down the Bastille...Linguet, a journalist, was in the Bastille for 20 months and went right to London when he was released - to write this
Legends of the Bastille
Language: en
Pages: 189
Authors: Frantz Funck-Brentano
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-05-18 - Publisher: Good Press

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Legends of the Bastille is a book by Frantz Funck-Brentano. The Bastille was a fortress in Paris used as a state prison. Stormed by a crowd during the French Re
Bastille Witness
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon
Categories: Prisons
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher:

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Madame Guyon's translated prison autobiography provides a compelling account of her eight years of incarceration from 1695 to 1703. The courage she shows sheds
The Colonial Bastille
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: Peter Zinoman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-03-04 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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"Zinoman makes original contributions on multiple fronts, including colonial systems; prisons as social institutions; political life in prison; public campaigns
The Bastille
Language: en
Pages: 328
Authors: Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-07-18 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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This book is both an analysis of the Bastille as cultural paradigm and a case study on the history of French political culture. It examines in particular the st