Bastille

How To Use Bastille In A Sentence

• Tahitian Americans in the United States may also observe the French Polynesian celebration of Bastille Day on July 14.
• 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