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That Constitution is destroyed; every one of its wise provisions has been set at naught; the local authority has been denied and superseded; the State Judges have been arrested on the bench by armed men, for no other offence than an exposition of State law according to their consciences and their oaths, but which happened to be distasteful and inconvenient to the Central Government; the members of the Legislature of Sovereign States have been dragged from their homes and beds at the dead of night, and imprisoned in bastilles, subjected to disgusting indecencies and humiliations, and worse treatment than falls to the lot of convicted felons, not for anything that they had done, but for something which it was supposed they might do.

London: Saturday, September 19, 1863 1863

The English had built a fence of strong fortresses called bastilles around Orleans -- fortresses which closed all the gates of the city but one.

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 Mark Twain 1872

GOV JENNIFER GRANHOLM (D), MICHIGAN:: Our preference is not to have to storm the bastilles, but we will if we have to.

CNN Transcript Mar 8, 2008 2008

Candide is the epitome of an epoch in which there were bastilles, a stag-park, and an absolute king.

Balzac 2003

The socialist system now embraces one-third of the world's population; the colonial system has all but collapsed; the international movement safeguarding the peace of nations has greatly expanded its scope and the national liberation revolutions are assailing the remaining bastilles of colonial and racist oppression.

SPEECH AT THE MEETING OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PARTIES AND MOVEMENTS PARTICIPATING IN THE CELEBRATION OF THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE "GREAT OCTOBER SOCIALIST REVOLUTION", MOSCOW, NOVEMBER 4-5, 1987(1) 1987

The socialist system now embraces one-third of the world's population; the colonial system has all but collapsed; the international movement safeguarding the peace of nations has greatly expanded its scope and the national liberation revolutions are assailing the remaining bastilles of colonial and racist oppression.

SPEECH AT THE MEETING OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PARTIES AND MOVEMENTS PARTICIPATING IN THE CELEBRATION OF THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE "GREAT OCTOBER SOCIALIST REVOLUTION", MOSCOW, NOVEMBER 4-5, 1987(1) 1987

The more active spirits, were thrown into the bastilles to rot and eat out their hearts during long terms of imprisonment '; while the remainder were callously and brutally thrown on the streets to starve'.

Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 13 Ray Esther 1969

Yet, after all, if they will destroy a few of the guillotines, open our bastilles, and give us at least the security of servitude, we shall be content to leave these retrospections to posterity, and be thankful that in this our day the wicked sometimes perceive it their interest to do good.

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners An English Lady

Now is the crisis in which to test the remarkable admission of M. Duchatel, in M.y, '45, that the bastilles of Paris were designed to' fortify order. '

Edmond Dantès Edmund Flagg

_Candide_ is the epitome of an epoch in which there were bastilles, a stag-park, and an absolute king.

Balzac Frederick Lawton