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Old 05-07-2012, 05:17 AM   #1
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And y'know...that whole Bastille thing...
They only rescued four prisoners you know.
But one of them wasn't the Marquis de Sade - he'd been moved to Charenton only 10 days before. He is suspected of inciting the storming by shouting that they were murdering prisoners though.
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Old 05-07-2012, 05:51 AM   #2
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They only rescued four prisoners you know.
But one of them wasn't the Marquis de Sade - he'd been moved to Charenton only 10 days before. He is suspected of inciting the storming by shouting that they were murdering prisoners though.
Nice triv point. Did not know that :p

Four-shmour though. In Ancien Regime France it was nothing less than a social and cultural earthquake. The symbolic value of the Bastille cannot be over-estimated.
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Old 05-08-2012, 12:44 PM   #3
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