RESTORATION OF THE BASTILLE.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7620, 18 December 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

RESTORATION OF THE BASTILLE.

icr The Baatillo is goiug to bo rostoroi 3lli Ono of tho nightn of the Paris Exhib ter tion in celebrating tho centenary of tl ;ho Revolution, will bo a restoration of tl ,nt famouu prison exactly ns it was in ]78 ion The Port d'Arisenat, the entrance to tl Lho Baatillo, the Institute Favart, and the blo neighboring strenta will also be faitl ;iss fully reproduced, Tho Protestant oto Teinplo, which (Ignrod oouspicuoiißly : hor tho afl'oirs of '89, nnd was turned into .go ineeting-hovißo and nlitco of n.mußOinon ten iv to bo uliliEud for an exhibition " i

jed lutherie." This has nothing to. do wit [— Luther, but means that all the music* er, instruments of the present time will b all exhibited In the Temple, and concerl ill- will bo given occasionally from the musi tie ef the old masters, such as Gretiry an ith Mehul. It in said that tho organisers c i a the exhibition are on the look-out fo ow souvenirs of the Revolution. They ar 1." after Marat'a bath, which was recent], a sold by a Breton curd for seveis st, thousand francs. They will probabl; he also try lo get the original guillotine, i nd it was not it which the Communist :B1 bufried, or hunt up the rod Cup o n- Liberty which Louis woro when he pu ht his head out of the window in thi ly Tuileries. Having once rebuilt th of Bastille, they mutst clearly have bad ill the original key which was presented t< tl Washington by Lafayette, and ia now ii ac the museum at Mount Vermont, Am pc the anniversary exhibition o'aano ■' possibly bo complete nnloss tho fatfiou ' a prised J3 re-Stormed and destroyee — again. „ _ f . •