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The Bastille, by Capt. the Hon. D. Bingham.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1888 Bingham
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bingham, D. (Denis), 1829-1897.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bastille.
- Genre:
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1901.
- Physical Description:
- 2 v. illus. 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, Scribner and Welford, 1888.
- Contents:
- Vol I.
- The building of the bastille
- Construction of the bastille
- The archives
- Regulations
- The prisioners
- Compared with tower and with newgate
- French and english governors
- French institutions
- Charles VI., 1380-1422
- Sir J. falstaff, Lord Willoughby D' Eresby
- Louis XI
- Henri IV
- Marie de Medicis
- Louis XIII
- The Fonde-Conte de rieux
- Mazarin
- The archives under Mazarin
- Louis XIV
- Maupeou
- Luxembourg
- Vanbrugh. Vol II. The ducs D'estrees and Mortemart and the comte d'harcourt
- Richelieu
- Lenglet du Fresnoy
- Abbe Fleur
- Resseguier
- 1760
- 1770
- 1780
- Closing scenes
- Accouts given by the "Gentleman's Magazine"
- Various opinions
- What became of some of the heroes of the drama
- Anniversaries, songs, etc
- The demolition
- Prisions and punishments since the fall of Bastille.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Red cloth binding with gold pictorial design and title in gold.
- Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.
- Cited in:
- Minsky, Richard. American decorated publishers' bindings, 1872-1929 (electronic resource), v. 1, pg. 75
- OCLC:
- 1685266
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