The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-22
TODAY IN HISTORY
FRIDAY APRIL 22 1910
Birthday Of the French eastIllc.

BIrthoay OF the French BaStilc.
Tho famous French prison. known as
inc BhStiIIe, was started today in 1856. by
order OF Charles V. The Bastllle turned
out TO be an important structure I'm his
tory. and its fall on July 10. 1888. marked
| the beginning OF the French Rcvolu-
tion. 1t WAS originally Intended by
| charles as a defense against the Eng
lish. When II cnme TO be used as a state
warks and bitches, The BaBtilc had
| Iour towers. OF FIVE stories cnch. on each
OF its larger sides. and il was partly In
these towers and partly In underground
| cellars that tho prisoners were situated.
IL was capable OF containing from seventy
10 eighty prisoners, Il number frequent
y reached during the rclgns OF Louis
XIV and Louis V. the majority OF them
! being persons OF tho higher ranks on
| It's site now stands the Column Of July,
erected In memory Of the patriots Of
The name OF Basljllc Of Bnstcgl. In
ancient times. was given TO any kind Of
structure calculated to withstand a mill
tary force. and thus formerly In Eng
land and on the borders OF Scotland. tn"
term BhStel-house was usually applied to
places of strength and fancied security.
The French Bastille was originally called
the B3st'llc ST Antoine.
stephen Marcel provost of the mer-
chants. undertook tho erection OF the
french BaStillc. The building was en-
larged in 1869 by Hugh Aubriot provost
OF Paris under Charles V. He added two
towers. which, being placed opposite
TO those already existing OH each side
or the gate. made Cf the Bastllle a square
fort With n tower at each OF the four
angles
After the death Of Charles V. Au-
hrioi. who had many enemies WAS prose-
cutcd for alleged crimes. and was con-
demncd 10 perpetual confinement and
was placed In the Bastille. OF which, ac-
cordlng to some historians, he was the
nrSt prisoner. After some time he was
removed thence TO Fort IEveque. another
prison. from which he was liberated In
1881, by the insurrectlon Of the Mao-
tins.
After this insurrcction. in 1852. the
young king. Charles VI, still further en-
larged the Bastille by adding four tow
ers TO 1t. each 100 feet hign. mus giving
II. instead of the square form IT original
ly possessed. the shape Of an oboRg or
paralleloeram. To increase It's strength.
Inc BaStule was surrounded by ditch
twenty-five feet deep and l@0 feet wide.
The road which formerly passed through
II was turned one side.
The Bastllle. from its commanding po-
sltlon, was closely connected with i'm
was occupied by the Guises in 1888; by
Charles " in 1854; the Frondeurs in
l6io. and Condo I'm 1852
IT was natural. therefore that the Bas-
tllle should bc one OF the first objects
OF attack at the outbreak Of the Revolu-
tion. On July 10. lI9S. the popuacc OF
Paris. recruited chiefly from, the fau-
ress and storncd IL after half hca rted
resistance by the governor De Launay
and a handful Of Swiss, The governor
and seven OF his men were killed. the
archives Of the prison scattered. and
inc prisoners. seven In number. were car
ried through the streets and hailed as
victims OF tyranny and martyrs In the
people s cause. The building itself WAS
torn down. The anniversary OF the taxi
ing OF the Bastilie is celebrated every
year as the national holiday Of France.
On April %. 1895. the impeachment
charges against Warren Hastings were
discontinued and Hastings was acquitted
II is the date on which the Royal Socle-
~ OF London was founded i'm 1862. Okla
homa was opened for settlement i'm 1889. |
II is the birthday OF Jonathan Dickinson.
the first president Of Princeton college |
1889; OF Lindley Murray the grammar
ian 1Ii5), Of Sir Alexander Cochrane, |
who ordered the destruction Of Wash |
ngton QI5S; OF Nathan Washburn, In |
ventor GSl6l. Andrew G.. Curtin war |
governor OF Pennsylvania GSl); OF Hen |
~ Fielding. dramatist and novelist
,l10D: OF Thomas Haynes Bailey. lyrical |
poet dS39): and j. Sterling Morton. the |
originator of Arhor day G832),