BASTILLE

In France, in the middle ages, towers and other outworks erected without the limits of towns were so called. The famous Bastille of Paris was an edifice of the same description, originally erected outside the city, near the modern Porte Saint Antoine. It was built by Hugues Aubriot, prevot des marc hands, in 1369; and he is said to have been the first prisoner of state confined in it after it was employed for that purpose. The Bastille was taken by the people of Paris on the 14th of July, 1-789, and demolished. [s. 149]