Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 258, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1911 — The key to the Bastile [ARTICLE]

The key to the Bastile

Tha bastfle was the prison In wfeftch French kings confined potttftoal prieonsss. Thousands es innocent peseoas were sent to this prison to ewsngs pemonal grievances of attaches of the hinge, who issued "letten de sachet" to their mlnlsten and oilcan. The cause of too arrest was nowhere recorded, and victims tons imprisoned might remain confined In the dungeons for a lifetime. In ITt 9 thstfpeopk of Paris destroyed toe bastOe after liberating all the prisoners. The key was presented by Lafayette to Washington, and it now hangs In the main hall of toe Inter mansion nt Mount Vernon.