Ray Brown wrote:
>> But it wasn't really a hated symbol until extremist propagandists
>> for the far Left (a term which of course did not exist until later)
>> invented it.
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> This is absolute tosh. If you care to look at contemporary accounts, you
> will discover that the fortress of the Bastille _was_, as far as the
> people of Paris were concerned, a hated & feared symbol of tyranny at that
> time! That's why it was stormed - duh!
I think you may both be right. I read somewhere that some of the
revolutionaries wanted to get the guns and powder that were
stored at the Bastille.
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