place
The Bastille
Bastille
also: Bastille Saint-Antoine
The royal fortress-prison in Paris stormed on 14 July 1789; Madách's image of women battering its gates alludes to the role of working-class women in the revolutionary crowd actions.
Reading notes
- On Women and Their Vocation §1 the Bastille
The Bastille, the Paris fortress-prison stormed on 14 July 1789 at the outbreak of the French Revolution; Madách's image of women battering its gates is a reference to the women's role in the early revolutionary crowd actions.