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Show , TAE FALL OF THE BASTILE. ) Of all the glorious anniverseries 111 French history, including the establish-'f establish-'f ment ol the third lepublci, not one is so lerve ,tiy commemorated by the French people as the tall of the Bastile, on the J 14th oljuli, r789 This citadel was the ' most gi uesome prison that politicals ever entered. The inlnimam treatment to wuicn the inmates ware subjected has lew parallels 111 the history ol penal cru- eltv. hut there without accusation or i trial, on a simple tettie de caclUcMwti ' no communication with friends, heir fin-, fin-, al fate depended on the humor ol a des I pot Some of ihe noblest sons of France ; languished or perished there, among them Marshal Richelieu. Voltaiki and "the Man in the Iron Mask." Of course the storming of the bastile was simply an incident in a turbulent time, just as the Boston tea party was but an incident in the struggle for American Amer-ican liberty.but as an embodiment of the horrors wmcb were abolished with it.the eveutof the 14th of july, 1789, marks a climax in the history of the country. In the p'ace where the last stronghold ol tyramis then stood there was erected ; in memory of the patriots of 1789 and 1830 "the column of July," ami as Presi- ' dent Carnot, at the head'ot the govern- ' ment, parucipated in the ctlebralion of 1 the tali ol the bastile, he must hive con- ' 1: mplated tne marvellous changes which ' a single century has wrought not only in Frauce but in the woild. ' 1 |