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Use in Literature

Bastille

As every other woman in the house looked by turns at her and at the Marquis, Foedora would have consigned them all to the oubliettes of some Bastille; for in spite of her capacity for dissimulation, her discomfiture was discerned by her rivals.–Honoré de Balzac in The Magic Skin (tr Ellen Marriage).

For me his confidences reached the proportions of tragedy; at the sight of that white head of his and beyond it the black water in the trenches of the Bastille lying still as a canal in Venice, I had no words to answer him.–Honoré de Balzac in Facino Cane.

Informed of this intrigue, the Guises entered the queen's chamber for the purpose of compelling her to issue an order consigning the vidame to the Bastille, and Catherine, to save herself, was under the hard necessity of obeying them.–Honoré de Balzac in Catherine de Medici (tr Katherine Prescott Wormeley).

Like a snail, whose life is so firmly attached to its shell, he admitted to the king that he was never at ease except under the bolts and behind the vermiculated stones of his little bastille; yet he knew very well that whenever Louis XI.–Honoré de Balzac in Maitre Cornelius (tr Katharine Prescott Wormeley).

My father, who was leader of the figures on the stage, happened to be present at the siege of the Bastille.–Honoré de Balzac in A Second Home.

Thus, under the later Valois, the kings came back from the Bastille to the Louvre, which had been their first stronghold.–Honoré de Balzac in Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.

"The furniture certainly belongs to that epoch, sanitary arrangements have made little advance, and the bare staircases and floors do not appear as if they had been well swept, much less scoured, since the fall of the Bastille.‘ - Matilda Betham-Edwards in In the Heart of the Vosges (And Other Sketches by a ’Devious Traveller").–Matilda Betham-Edwards

Many chateaux were regarded as so many little Bastilles, and in order to imitate the Parisians who had destroyed theirs the peasants began to burn them.–Gustave le Bon in The Psychology of Revolution.

These were like so many towers of the formidable Bastille in which he entrenched himself, under the British standard, to judge Europe and cover her with contempt.–Gustave le Bon in The Psychology of Revolution.

The Bastille, the prison of many victims of arbitrary power, symbolised the royal power to many minds; but the people who demolished it had not suffered by it.–Gustave le Bon in The Psychology of Revolution.