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Bastille Square
Hotel leveque : The daily turmoil slowly fades to reveal the tranquillity and calm of the evening.
Bastille
As a symbol of absolutism the Bastille was hated. It had strategic importance, for its guns commanded one of the gates of Paris. On July 14, 1789, a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in the hope of capturing ammunition.
The governor was killed; the seven inmates, none of them political prisoners, were freed. The storming of the Bastille marks the beginning of the French Revolution , and July 14—Bastille Day—became the national holiday of republican France.
Start at the west end of place de la Bastille. From the Bastille Métro, exit following signs to rue St.Antoine (not the signs to rue du Faubourg St. Antoine). Ascend onto a noisy square dominated by the bronze Colonne de Juillet (July Column). The bronze god on the top is, like you, headed west.
This information comes from www.ricksteves.com Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door
Your hotel (Leveque) near Invalides, near eiffel tower, and near all the monuments of paris will be the central point of your stay.
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the Louvre in Paris hotel comfort in Paris and hotel near eiffel tower secured reservation
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