Bastille (Paris, 18th century) 3D Animation Video - Smart Jarvis
The best city in Paris was originally a medieval fortress commissioned by Charles the fifth during the Hundred Years War.
It was completed in 1383.
After the war, it lost its defensive function
and French monarch started using it as a prison.
The floor plan for the building was nearly rectangular.
It measured 66 meters in length and 30 meters and with eight five story towers were erected along the walls, which were 24 meters high, built to the same height. The roots of the towers and the tops of the walls formed a broad walkway around the fortress.
This allowed for rapid movement and more effective protection by the soldiers and artillery.
The broad moat formed around the fortress, and the high walls also reinforced it the best it
was only accessible through a drawbridge leading to the gate between the two Western towers
the inner courtyard was divided into by a building.
Because of its many illustrious prisoners the best it was more pleasant than other contemporary prisons.
However, it acquired a very poor reputation due to the fact that most of its prisoners were taken on the king's orders, and the charges and conditions in the prison were not known to the public.
Once released.
Prisoners also contributed to the bad reputation with their exaggerated or false reports,
but on the 14th of July 1789, it was not because it was a hated symbol of tyrannical power that the angry permeation crowd storm the prison The reason was simple they wanted to gain access to the large cash of weapons and gunpowder stored within its walls the fall of the Basti however, became a flashpoint for the French Revolution in the prevailing chaos after the events a group with official authorization demolish the building by 1790, erasing it from the map of Paris.
It was completed in 1383.
After the war, it lost its defensive function
and French monarch started using it as a prison.
The floor plan for the building was nearly rectangular.
It measured 66 meters in length and 30 meters and with eight five story towers were erected along the walls, which were 24 meters high, built to the same height. The roots of the towers and the tops of the walls formed a broad walkway around the fortress.
This allowed for rapid movement and more effective protection by the soldiers and artillery.
The broad moat formed around the fortress, and the high walls also reinforced it the best it
was only accessible through a drawbridge leading to the gate between the two Western towers
the inner courtyard was divided into by a building.
Because of its many illustrious prisoners the best it was more pleasant than other contemporary prisons.
However, it acquired a very poor reputation due to the fact that most of its prisoners were taken on the king's orders, and the charges and conditions in the prison were not known to the public.
Once released.
Prisoners also contributed to the bad reputation with their exaggerated or false reports,
but on the 14th of July 1789, it was not because it was a hated symbol of tyrannical power that the angry permeation crowd storm the prison The reason was simple they wanted to gain access to the large cash of weapons and gunpowder stored within its walls the fall of the Basti however, became a flashpoint for the French Revolution in the prevailing chaos after the events a group with official authorization demolish the building by 1790, erasing it from the map of Paris.
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