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It was on the morning of the fourteenth of July that Billet opened oratorical fire against the monument which had for five centuries weighed like an incubus on the breast of France a rock of Sisyphus. Less confident than the Titan in her power, France had never thought to throw it off.
The Bastile was the seal of feudalism on the brow of Paris.