Saint Antoine

Faubourg Saint-Antoine

 The Faubourg Saint-Antoine was one o These places were like

of the traditional suburbs of communes in the eastern
Paris, France. It grew up to the suburbs of Paris.
east of the Bastille, extended
from the Porte Saint-Antoine. [1]  During the French revolution, the
Also, this place was built around faubourg was given the name
the Saint-Antoine-des-Champs “Faubourg-de-Gloire” here was were
Abbey, more known as St. Anthony the revolution began with the
Storming of the Bastille on 14 July
of 1789. [1]

 The Storming of the Bastille

occurred in Paris on the afternoon
of 14 July 1789, when the
revolutionaries seen the Bastille
as a symbol of the monarchy’s
abuses of power. [2]

Picture 3: The Bastille of Paris before

the Revolution. [2]
 It was the flashpoint of the French
Revolution. Flashpoint as an area
or dispute that has strong
possibility of developing into a
war. [3]

 The Bastille was a fortress in

monastery. [4]
Picture 1: Porte St-Antione c. 1550 [1]
Picture 2: Saint-Antoine-des-Champs Abbey
[4]
 Its roads led to the villages of
Charenton, Charonne, Reuilly and
Montreuil, which provided large
amounts of wine, fruit, and
vegetables to the city. [1]
Paris, known formally as the
Bastille Saint-Antoine.
o It was used as a state prison
by the kings of France. [2]
 On July 14th of 1789, in the French
Revolution, a crowd attacked and
captured the prison. This is known
as Storming the Bastille. [2]
 The storming began when a crowd of
less than one thousand (conquerors
of the Bastille) entered the
Bastille and took out Bernard-René
de Launay. The governor. [2]
  After the revolution the Joly
Column were raised in Paris,
commemorating the revolution and
arisen in the center of the
bastille. [
 5]
Picture 4: Arrest of de Launay, by an
Anonymous artist. [2]
Picture 5: The Colonne de Juillet, The Joly
Column. [5]
 So, in the early 19th century,
France was a country of
immigration, for peoples and
political refugees from Eastern
Europe.
 In the 18th century, the people
traveled for many of the same
reasons we travel today. But most
travelers were men from the
middling and upper levels of
society. The least expensive and
most common way to get from one
place to another was by foot. [6]
Picture 6: Colonial Williamsburg’s
traveling coach. [6]
References
[1] “Faubourg Saint-Antoine.”
Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation,
5 July 2018,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faubourg_Sa
int-Antoine#CITEREFFiguères1901.
[2] “Storming of the Bastille.”
Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation,
26 Aug. 2018,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storming_of
_the_Bastille.
[3] “Flashpoint (Politics).”
Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation,
24 July 2018,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashpoint_
(politics).
[4] “Abbaye Saint-Antoine-Des-
Champs.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia
Foundation, 28 Aug. 2018,
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbaye_Sain
t-Antoine-des-Champs.
[5] “July Column.” Wikipedia,
Wikimedia Foundation, 14 Aug.
 2018,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_Column
.
[6] “18th-Century Modes of Travel.”
Home Page of History.org : The
Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation's Official History and
Citizenship Site,
www.history.org/history/teaching/
enewsletter/april03/iotm.cfm.