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    The Place de la Bastille (French pronunciation: [plas də la bastij]) is a square in Paris where the Bastille prison once stood, until the storming of the...
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    Designed by Uruguayan architect Carlos Ott, it is situated facing Place de la Bastille. It may seat 2,723 people in total, with a main theatre, concert...
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    Republican movement. It was later demolished and replaced by the Place de la Bastille. The castle was built to defend the eastern approach to the city...
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    statue was intended to be created out of bronze and placed in the Place de la Bastille, but only a plaster full-scale model was built. At 24 m (78 ft) in...
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    The Storming of the Bastille (French: Prise de la Bastille [pʁiz də la bastij]) occurred in Paris, France, on 14 July 1789, when revolutionary insurgents...
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    The Gare de la Bastille was a railway station on the Place de la Bastille in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The station was opened in 1859 and...
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    Revolution) is a circle on the eastern side of Paris, between the Place de la Bastille and the Bois de Vincennes, on the border of the 11th and 12th arrondissements...
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    Place du 8 Février 1962 Place du 8 Novembre 1942 Place du 18 juin 1940 Place d'Acadie Place de la Bastille Square des Batignolles Place Beauvau Place...
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    Chomet Bastille, a British alternative rock band named after the birthday of their frontman Bastille Day event Opération 14 juillet Place de la Bastille Public...
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    Revolution, 1,119 were executed on the Place de la Concorde, 73 on the Place de la Bastille and 1,306 on the Place de la Nation. Besides Louis XVI and Marie...
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    Bastille (French pronunciation: [bastij] ) is a station on Line 1, Line 5 and Line 8 of the Paris Métro. Located under the Place de la Bastille and near...
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    construction, the Arc de Triomphe became the rallying point of French troops parading after successful military campaigns and for the annual Bastille Day military...
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    The Place de la République (known as the Place du Château d'Eau until 1879) is a square in Paris, located on the border between the 3rd, 10th and 11th...
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    down from the Place de la Bastille to the Place de la République to commemorate popular outbreaks of the French Revolution: 1974: Bastille-République (No...
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    large squares: the Place de la République to the northwest, the Place de la Bastille to the southwest, as well as the Place de la Nation to the southeast...
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    Quai de la Rapée. It ends at the Place de la Bastille, home of the Opéra Bastille. The boulevard was given its current name of Boulevard de la Bastille in...
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    Colonne de Juillet) is a monumental column in Paris commemorating the Revolution of 1830. It stands in the center of the Place de la Bastille and celebrates...
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    L'église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine), or less formally, La Madeleine, is a Catholic parish church on Place de la Madeleine in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. It...
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    branch line to Place de la Bastille. But instead of that, Lyon Street (fr. Rue de Lyon) was laid out between the station and Place de la Bastille. The station...
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  • Paris Place de la Bastille, a square in Paris where the Bastille prison once stood Bastille (Grenoble), a fortress in Grenoble, France Bastille Peak,...
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    first "Federation Day" celebration (fête de la Fédération), now known as Bastille Day, was held on the Champ de Mars, exactly one year after the storming...
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    its headquarters in a school on the Rue Basfroi, between Place de la Bastille and Rue de la Roquette [fr]. The first vote of the new Central Committee...
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    Rolf. The Bastille: a history of a symbol of despotism and freedom. Duke University Press Books, 27 June 1997. p. 114–134 Place de la Bastille, Part 5,...
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    terrain restera à l'état de friche jusqu'à l'Exposition Universelle de 1878. Gabriel Davioud, qui s'était illustré en dessinant la place Saint-Michel en 1867...
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    Porte de La Chapelle Arena (also known by its project name Paris Arena II and its trade name Adidas Arena) is a multi-purpose and modular hall located...
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    Canal Saint-Martin (category Place de la Bastille)
    de l'Ourcq to the river Seine. Nearly half its length (2,069 metres (2,263 yd)), between the Rue du Faubourg du Temple and the Place de la Bastille,...
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  • 1789: Les Amants de la Bastille (1789: Lovers of the Bastille) is a French stage musical with music by Dove Attia, Laurent Delort, Louis Delort, Rod Janois...
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    links the Canal Saint-Martin, which begins at the Place de la Bastille, to the Seine, at the Quai de la Rapée. A component of the Réseau des Canaux Parisiens...
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    include: Place de la Bastille (shared by the 4th, 11th and 12th arrondissements) Opéra Bastille Faubourg Saint-Antoine Bois de Vincennes Château de Vincennes...
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    voyage pathologique ou de psychopathologie liée au voyage, plutôt que de syndrome du voyageur. Magherini, Graziella (1995). La sindrome di Stendhal (in...
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