Over time, though, its purpose evolved, and it became a state prison—and a potent symbol of royal overreach ... to chafe under the monarchy. At the time, French society was divided into a ...

What has become of the intermediate Kings of the once powerful monarchy of France In one indistinguishable mass they lie beneath the high altar of St. Denis. From Clovis down to Louis XVI.

The French monarchy survived unscathed ... Revolutionaries considered the fortress a symbol of monarchical overreach and oppression, and they slowly tore it down over the coming months.

The symbol has been given a makeover seven times ... The "Bleu de France" was the colour chosen to represent the French monarchy from the 12th Century onwards, and later became adopted across ...

The storming of the Bastille is seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern French "nation", and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which preceded the ...