Bastille

[ UK /bˈɑːstɪl/ ]
[ US /ˈbæstɪɫ, ˌbæsˈtɪɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a fortress built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries; it was destroyed July 14, 1789 at the start of the French Revolution
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  • There are endless careful details — a 45-foot zinc bar, a Parisian metro clock — a lovely rooftop garden designed by Seattle Urban Farm, and a menu from chef Shannon Galusha that fits a big niche of dinnertime cravings, from a French rotisserie (with chickens specially raised for Bastille by an Eastside farm) to a takeout window for felafel. Twitter+Real-Time Restaurant Reviews
  • Bastille Day at the Buffet is a full-day feast of fine wines, fine cheeses, fresh baguettes, escargot and delicatessens that make the mouth water.
  • Mechanical as the notes were, yet so true in tune to nature were they chanted, that in one moment they overthrew all my systematic reasonings upon the Bastille; and I heavily walk’d up-stairs, unsaying every word I had said in going down them. 41. The Passport. The Hotel at Paris
  • Take the cruise from the Arsenal boat docks to the end of the line at the other side of Paris, it goes thru the 10th and has the bridges from "Amelie" -- go the the markets at Bastille and Aligre. bonnie roquebrun/san diego What to Do in Paris / Que faire a Paris? - French Word-A-Day
  • With the fall of the Bastille in 1789 , a wave of euphoria swept over Europe.
  • One of the values of blogs, and grassroots is for those isolated and outraged; by the apparent injustice of power storming Washington, is that they can know that they are not alone, and can take effective action that doesn’t involve ’storming the bastille’. Firedoglake » Crashing the Gates of Congress — And Action Request for Everyone
  • For Bastille day I've taken the names of 20 French towns and cities and written an anagram of each.
  • The Bastille had gone, its site converted into a woodyard.
  • On Bastille Day, there would be a sartorial epidemic of clothes coloured red, white, and blue.
  • P, the manager of Cafe Bastille on Belden Lane, by chance of fate is also our neighbour.
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