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| Keywords: Place de la Bastille, 1841.jpg Artwork The Place de la Bastille was created in 1792 on the spot where the Bastille Prison was located The Bastille was built in 1370 as a fortress and became a prison under the reign of Louis XIII In 1789 the Bastille was stormed by a mob and dismantled an event often cited as the start of the French Revolution Today only a few stones from the prison remain in the Place de la Bastille The Colonne de Juillet also found at the Place de la Bastille was erected in the honor and in memory of 500 men who fell in the Revolution of 1830 Their names are inscribed on the side of the column On the top of the column is a golden statue The Column also marks the place where the in famous Bastille stood 1875-1882 lithograph 24 x 30 cm Institution Brown University Library object history exhibition history credit line Published in Theodor Josef Hubert Hoffbauer Paris à travers les âges Paris Firmin-Didot et cie 1885 accession number 1145900883849308 PD-old-80 Lithographs of Paris Images of Paris from the Brown University Library Engravings of Bastille by Theodor Hoffbauer Colonne de Juillet 1841 Éléphant de la Bastille Bassin de l'Arsenal 1841 in Paris | ||||
