. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. how shortthe time, the law presuming it to be thechild of the husband. The only in-capacity of a bastard is that he can-not be heir or next of kin to anyonesave his own issue. In England theniaintenance of a bastard in the firstinstance devolves on the mother, whilein Scotland it is a joint burden uponboth parents. The mother is entitledto the custody of the child in preferenceto the father. Charles V., between 1370 and 1383, byHugo Aubroit, Provost of Paris, at PorteSt.
. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. how shortthe time, the law presuming it to be thechild of the husband. The only in-capacity of a bastard is that he can-not be heir or next of kin to anyonesave his own issue. In England theniaintenance of a bastard in the firstinstance devolves on the mother, whilein Scotland it is a joint burden uponboth parents. The mother is entitledto the custody of the child in preferenceto the father. Charles V., between 1370 and 1383, byHugo Aubroit, Provost of Paris, at PorteSt. Antoine, as a defense against theEnglish. Afterward it was provided vsithvast bulwarks and ditches. On each ofits longer sides the Bastille had fourtowers, of five stories each, over whichthere ran a gallery, which was armedwith cannon. It was partly in thesetowers, and partly in cellars xmder thelevel of the ground, that the prisonswere situated. The Bastille was capableof containing 70 to 80 prisoners. OnJuly 14, 1789. it was surrounded by anarmed mob enraged by the reactionarypolicy of the court. The garrison con-. ^sa ,^p^ THE BASTILLE BASTIA. the former capital ofCorsica, in the N. E. part of the island,95 miles N. N. E. of Ajaccio. Antimonyraining, boat building, iron founding,tunny and coral fishing are carried on;besides, there is some trade in oil, wine,and fruit. Population about 30, was founded in 1388 by the Gen-oese Leonello Lomellino, and was theseat of the Genoese governors for 400years. It has several times been in thehands of the English, who, under Ad-miral Hood, last captured the town in1794. BASTILLE (bas-tel), formerly, inFrance, a general term for a strong for-tress defended by towers or bastions,and in this sense it was used in Englandafter the Norman Conquest. The famousprison to which the name was latterlyappropriated was originally the Castleof Paris, and was built by order of sisted of 82 old soldiers and 33 with the gove
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