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Bastille

former fortress in Paris, France

9 dated entries naming Bastille, drawn from 8 separate years between 1369 CE and 1789 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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14th century

  • 1369Charles V of France orders Hugues Aubriot to construct the fortress of the Bastille in Paris.source
  • 1370Hugues Aubriot begins construction of the fortress of the Bastille in Paris.source
  • 1383Construction of the Bastille fortress is completed in Paris, France.source

15th century

  • 1413April 27 – The Cabochien revolt begins in Paris as a group of people, led by Simon Caboche, seize the Bastille prison and take as a hostage the Provost of Paris, Pierre des Essarts. The Cabochiens will control the city for the next four months.source

17th century

  • 1666May 13 – French theologian Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy is imprisoned in the Bastille after his conviction for heresy in connection with the Jansenist movement. Sacy uses his two and one-half years of incarceration (which lasts until November 14, 1668), to create the Bible du Port-Royal, a first French language rendition of the Bible, finishing a translation of the Old Testament from the Vulgate, written in Latin, that had been started by his brother Antoine, and then beginning work on the New Testament.source

18th century

  • 1703March 21 – Jeanne Guyon is freed from the Bastille in Paris after more than seven years imprisonment for heresy.source
  • 1703November 19 – The so-called Man in the Iron Mask dies in the Bastille. He is buried under the name of "Marchioly".source
  • 1717François-Marie Arouet is sentenced to imprisonment in the Bastille for eleven months, because of a satirical verse against the Régent of France and his infamous daughter Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, who is hiding an illegitimate pregnancy and soon to give birth; Arouet will emerge with the pseudonym Voltaire and the completed text of his first play, Œdipe.source
  • 1789July 14 – French Revolution: Storming of the Bastille – Citizens of Paris storm the fortress of the Bastille, and free the only seven prisoners held. In rural areas, peasants attack the manors of the nobility.source

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