Bastille
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wiktionary
From French bastille, from Late Latin bastilia, plural of bastile, from bastire(“to build”).
etymonline
Bastille (n.)
14th century Paris fortress, used as a prison and destroyed by revolutionaries on July 14, 1789, as a symbol of royal despotism; French, literally "fortress, gate tower" (see bastion). Many French cities kept their medieval gate-towers as prisons after other fortifications were removed. The word was in Middle English in the "fortress" sense as bastel, bastyle.
