Fourteenth of July: And the Taking of the Bastille
Profile Books, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Using contemporary accounts, often by eyewitnesses, Prendergast describes the Bastille prison, its reputation as France's most feared place of incarceration; its storming by the armed populace, and the momentous aftermath...And.....




