How To Use Bastille In A Sentence

  • 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.
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  • 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.
  • That was why the Bastille was such a powerful symbol - it was where unnamed state prisoners could be confined without trial, under the notorious lettres de cachet, sealed warrants signed by the king and revocable only by him.
  • Processions enough walk in jubilee; of Young Women, decked and dizened, their ribands all tricolor; moving with song and tabor, to the Shrine of Sainte Genevieve, to thank her that the Bastille is down. The French Revolution
  • His admission to the National Convention resulted from an electoral mix-up, when electors from the Oise nominated "Bourdon, substitute procureur at Paris and one of the conquerors of the Bastille. Names
  • He took the name Voltaire during his first sojourn in the Bastille. Archive 2009-02-01
  • Throughout this period, government officials learned to be wary of the power of public opinion — not because they expected anyone to storm the Bastille but because well-placed slander could damage relations within the delicate system of protection and clientage at the heart of politics in Versailles. Finding a Lost Prince of Bohemia
  • While being interrogated in the Bastille, Brissot tried to clear his name and persuade the police to release him, by informing them of Pelleport's activities as a libeler. Finding a Lost Prince of Bohemia
  • I started to peel off my wetsuit jacket; feeling now a little bit like a tart in a French brothel on a busy Bastille Day.
  • Much of the initial enthusiasm had cooled when the fall of the Bastille was followed by continued upheavals.
  • Which brings us back to "Bastille Day", the obvious parallel for this episode also featuring Apollo, Dualla and Billy as hostages, in which Apollo as the most unsoldierly soldier in the fleet manages to defuse the situation with almost no blood on the deck. News From the Bizarro-verse and Other "Sacrifice" Thoughts
  • In 1789 (July), just as M. Cuchet (good man and leisurable to the end) wound up his series with a last volume of the Suite des Mille et Un Nuits, they toppled over with the fall of the Bastille. Preface.
  • They brought forward a draft of a declaration just before the storming of the Bastille.
  • He helped create and expand the Bastille legend, exhibiting in his waxworks insurgents, released prisoners, and a model of the fortress, carved from its ‘last’ stone.
  • Next Friday is Bastille Day, but even that famous celebration is unlikely to jolt sleepy Montpellier out of its drowsy charm.
  • The neighborhood is very sympathique. I can walk to the Place des Vosges, the cinema or opera at the Bastille.
  • When this team won the last World Cup, just before Bastille Day in 1998, they seemed the perfect advertisement for a multiracial France.
  • Inspired, however, by the spirit of hereditary obstinacy, Charles preferred a useless resistance to a dignified submission, and, by a series of idle bravadoes, laid the French court under the necessity of arresting their late ally, and sending him to close confinement in the Bastille, from which he was afterwards sent out of the French dominions, much in the manner in which a convict is transported to the place of his destination. Redgauntlet
  • Concert work fills the blanks in her diary left by the Bastille debacle.
  • he planned a party to celebrate Bastille Day
  • Violette met Etienne Szabo, a French officer of Hungarian descent, at the Bastille Day parade in London in 1940.
  • Its giant padlock would have secured the Bastille. Times, Sunday Times
  • Tahitian Americans in the United States may also observe the French Polynesian celebration of Bastille Day on July 14.
  • Nab some of this West Coast jeweler's gear in advance of their NYC showroom opening, with fresh offerings including the monogrammed vintage franc with a studded 14kt gold chain & lotus pearl clasp, and a chunkily chained, engraved nameplate bracelet called the Bastille Double Wrap, also a move recommended by health professionals to ensure you don't get guillo-peened. Thrillist: Girl Friendly Gifts For The Holidays
  • Approximately 200 West Point cadets will march down the Champs Elysees in Paris on July 14 as part of France's Bastille Day parade.
  • Voltaire, despite gaining renown as the greatest living French playwright while still in his twenties, endured a long stay in the Bastille, a thorough beating by an offended nobleman's lackeys, and several periods of exile.
  • Do not pass Go or collect 100 francs, go directly to the Bastille, where you will be decapitated by an angry mob of toothless old crones.
  • Its giant padlock would have secured the Bastille. Times, Sunday Times
  • Bastille Day in France commemorates the French Revolution and reminds us of one of the most unpleasant and blood-soaked regimes ever to have reduced a country to penury.
  • Russian Bastille on Lake Ladoga, which is the most dreaded prison of all. From Paris to New York by Land
  • He planned a party to celebrate Bastille day.
  • Most of the staff know me by name and rush to greet me with a kiss on each cheek when I arrive, so it pains me to report, therefore, that I find Bastille's food is often quite average, sometimes even worse.

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