Front matter
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THE HISTORY OF THE BASTILE.
THE HISTORY OF THE BASTILE, AND OF ITS PRINCIPAL CAPTIVES.
BY R. A. DAVENPORT. AUTHOR OF THE “NEW BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY,” ETC. ETC.
Then shame to manhood, and opprobrious more To France than all her losses and defeats, Old or of later date, by sea or land, Her house of bondage, worse than that of old Which God avenged on Pharaoh—the Bastile.—Cowper.
LONDON: PUBLISHED BY THOMAS TEGG AND SON, 73, CHEAPSIDE. 1838.
LONDON: BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.