A History of a Symbol of Despotism and Freedom
by
Rolf Reichardt, Steven Laurence Kaplan, Keith Michael Baker
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 1997
This book is both an analysis of the Bastille as cultural paradigm and a case study on the history of French political culture. It examines in particular the storming and subsequent fall of the Bastille in Paris on July 14, 1789 and how it came to represent the cornerstone of the French Revolution,...