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“But if you close your eyes,does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?”
Bastille Pompeii“There was hardly an eminent writer in Paris who was unacquainted with the inside of the Conciergerie or the Bastille.”
Lytton Strachey, Landmarks in French Literature“Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.”
Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia“Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to doctors and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic.”
Benjamin Rush“We think of 1789 as the date of the French Revolution, and the storming of the Bastille as its defining event. Yet as late as halfway through 1792, most of the familiar images of the revolution had yet to occur. Louis XVI was still king, and the Assembly was negotiating a new constitutional arrangement for the monarchy, not so different from Britain's Glorious Revolution of 1688.”
Mike Jay, A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine“For a man who was to exhibit such acute political sharpness later in his career, Napoleon completely misread the revolution's opening stages. 'I repeat what I have said to you,' he wrote to Joseph on July 22, a week after the fall of the Bastille, 'calm will return. In a month, there will no longer be a question of anything. So, if you send me 300 livres [7,500 francs] I will go to Paris to terminate our business.”
Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life“The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it.”
Cara Black, Murder in the Bastille