Place de la Bastille et SainteChapelle

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Place de la Bastille et Sainte-Chapelle

• Par Kerry D

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Bastille

• Built around 1369
• Intended for Pariss defense
• By 1600s used as a prison.
• Prisoners include Marquis de Sade and Voltaire
• Attacked by a mob on July 14, 1789
• Storming of the Bastille started French
  Revolution to overthrow Louis XVI
• Seven Prisoners freed.

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Bastille Day!July 14th

• National Holiday- July 14th
• To celebrate and remember
• The storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789
• End of monarchy
• The beginning of the First Republic
• Parties/Gatherings similar to 4th of July

• Storming of the Bastille symbolized the end of
  the king as Gods representative.
• French Monarchy Ended
• Prison of Bastille later destroyed.

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Opera de la Bastille

• Bastille remains only a traffic circle with
  Colonne de Juillet (July Column) of Charles X
  next to it.
• July 1989
• During bicentennial of the French Revolution
• Charles Ott builds the Opera de la Bastille
• Bastille now a modern opera house.

• Opera house seats 2700 people
• Newest technology- close to metro.
• Neighborhood around Bastille filled with shops,
  theaters, clubs
• In once a run down community.
• Now in trendiest section of Paris

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La Sainte-Chapelle

• Gothic Catholic Chapel
• La Sainte-Chapelle means the Holy Chapel
• Pierre de Montreuil was architect
• Louis IX had it built
• Built around 1244
• Created to hold relics of the Holy Land
• Said to store Jesus Christs crown
• Not intended to be a public building
• During French Revolution it was symbol of royalty
  and religion.
• Surrounded by Palais of Justice on the Ile de la
  Cité near Notre Dame
• It was built within the courtyard of a royal
  palace

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Architecture of the Sainte Chapelle

• Architecture based on palace chapels
• Modeled after chapels like Charlemagne built
• Lower level is the crypt, where the relics were
  stored.
• Spiral staircases
• Stained glass windows from floor to ceiling
• Create a beautiful mosaic of light on the floor
  from the sun.

• North windows depict scenes from the Old
  Testament
• South windows show New Testament scenes

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En français

• La place de la Bastille était une prison.
• Maintenant c'est une maison d'opéra.
• La fête de la Bastille est le quatorze juillet.

• La Sainte Chapelle, c'est une chapelle gothique.
• C'est célèbre pour son architecture et ses
  vitraux.
• À la Sainte Chapelle on peut voir des reliques.

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