Happy Bastille Day!

by **Dukasaur** on Sat Jul 14, 2018 2:50 pm

Free the dungeons of the innocent
The king will kneel, and let his kingdom rise

by **betiko** on Sat Jul 14, 2018 5:55 pm

bastille day is actually my daughter's birthday at the same time... had some busy stuff to do with toddlers running around all day, and tomorrw is the freaking world cup final, yayyyy

by **Symmetry** on Sat Jul 14, 2018 11:24 pm

I'm kind of disappointed by Wiki. The only thing I thought I knew about the storming of the Bastille was that the Marquis de Sade was one of the only prisoners. Turns out that was wrong.

My new weird fact is that one of the guys got squashed by a falling drawbridge.

It's not as interesting.

by **jonesthecurl** on Sun Jul 15, 2018 12:30 am

Haven't looked it up before I wrote this, but I seem to remember that either Count Cagliostro or Casanova was a prisoner at the time. I always get those two mixed up.

by **Dukasaur** on Sun Jul 15, 2018 7:53 am

jonesthecurl wrote:Haven't looked it up before I wrote this, but I seem to remember that either Count Cagliostro or Casanova was a prisoner at the time. I always get those two mixed up.

Neither. Casanova retired from adventuring in 1787, two years before the French Revolution broke out, and he spent his last years in Bohemia.

Cagliostro was imprisoned by the Inquisition during this time period, but it was at San Angelo (the papal prison in Rome.) {I did have to look up that one.}

by **Symmetry** on Sun Jul 15, 2018 3:04 pm

Wikipedia ruins everything.

by **jonesthecurl** on Sun Jul 15, 2018 5:27 pm

Dukasaur wrote:
jonesthecurl wrote:Haven't looked it up before I wrote this, but I seem to remember that either Count Cagliostro or Casanova was a prisoner at the time. I always get those two mixed up.

Neither. Casanova retired from adventuring in 1787, two years before the French Revolution broke out, and he spent his last years in Bohemia.

Cagliostro was imprisoned by the Inquisition during this time period, but it was at San Angelo (the papal prison in Rome.) {I did have to look up that one.}

But apparently he did serve six or nine months in the Bastille first, tried to escape and was moved to San Angelo.

Or possibly , says another source, he was aquitted and released and separately arrested several years later.