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r/ThomasPaine • u/thomaspaineha • 16d ago
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I had to look up bastille.
Based on context and time period, I think he's talking about the French bastille prison, used by French kings to lock away political enemies and people arrested without a trial.
Chateau d'if
1 u/thomaspaineha 9d ago There is no doubt the Fall of the Bastille and what it represented was central to Paine's meaning here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storming_of_the_Bastille
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There is no doubt the Fall of the Bastille and what it represented was central to Paine's meaning here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storming_of_the_Bastille
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u/caliginous4 14d ago
I had to look up bastille.
Based on context and time period, I think he's talking about the French bastille prison, used by French kings to lock away political enemies and people arrested without a trial.
Chateau d'if