Taking the Bastile

Or, Pitou the Peasant

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Taking the Bastile, or Pitou the Peasant, is by Alexandre Dumas. A doctor tells Miss Angelique that since she is forced to send her nephew into beggary he will find somebody else to take him, and that he is obliged to return to America. Pitou rushes into his aunt's long, bony arms to exchange a hug.

The text says the concourse entering the Castle by all openings choked up the doorways, and had liberated eight prisoners, including Gilbert. The text names Count Solange, a man of thirty, who was arrested in 1782 and shut up in Vincennes Castle on a blank warrant obtained by his father, and who remained five years in the Bastile without having seen a magistrate or being examined once.

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Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas wrote at industrial scale, with a workshop behind him, and the most important member of it was Auguste Maquet, who drafted plots and researched the novels that went out under Dumas's name alone.