Anonymous ID: 02620f July 14, 2022, 11:13 a.m. No.16731852   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1916 >>2071 >>2158

Today is Bastille Day. Revolution Time?

 

How France’s treasured Bastille key ended up at Mount Vernon

 

On July 14, 1789, an angry French mob stormed the royal Bastille prison in Paris, igniting the French Revolution. But as France celebrates Bastille Day and the birth of its republic, one of the most potent symbols of the revolution — the main key to the Bastille — hangs in George Washington’s historic estate in Mount Vernon, Va.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/how-france-s-treasured-bastille-key-ended-up-at-mount-vernon/ar-AAZyTQ5