Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1911 — The Key to the Bastile. [ARTICLE]

The Key to the Bastile.

Ths bastile was the prison In which French kings confined political prisoners. Thousands of Innocent persons were sent to this prison to avenge personal grievances of attaches of the kings, who issued “letters de cachet*' to their ministers and officers. The cause of the street - was nowhere recorded, and • Victims thus imprisoned’t might remain confined In the. dungeons for a lifetime. In lTt# the peopK of Paris destroyed the bastile after liberating all the prisoners. The key was presented by Lafayette to Waahiogtori, and It now hah& In the main hall of the later mansion St Mount Vernon.