English to afrikaans meaning of

bastille

Die woord "Bastille" verwys na 'n voormalige vesting in Parys, Frankryk, wat gedurende die 17de en 18de eeue as 'n staatsgevangenis gebruik is. Die Bastille is beroemd deur die mense van Parys bestorm op 14 Julie 1789 tydens die Franse Revolusie, en sy val het die einde van die Ancien Régime en die begin van die moderne Franse nasie simboliseer. Vandag is die terrein waar die Bastille eens gestaan het, 'n openbare plein in Parys genaamd die Place de la Bastille.

Sentence Examples

  1. Jacques du Chard, one of only a few prisoners left within the Bastille, lounged on his bed.
  2. The Bastille was a veritable fortress within the city of Paris.
  3. The Bastille guards must have tortured him before sending him to Russia.
  4. At the head of the group was the Marquis de Launay, the governor of the Bastille, whom the prisoner was familiar with.
  5. It is the people who demand his head as the one who ran the Bastille.
  6. Gaspard would be lying dead in the Bastille prison, a diamond between his lips.
  7. Past the wall into which the tunnel had been built, the Bastille came crumbling down.
  8. They were surrounded on three sides by thick walls, those of the Bastille and the adjacent buildings.
  9. Besides, I know a great deal about the Bastille itself.
  10. We visited the Bastille, where I got the willies by putting my head under a real guillotine.
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