n.

a fortress built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries; it was destroyed July 14, 1789 at the start of the French Revolution

a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner)

The Colonial Bastille
The Colonial Bastille
Bug Bastille to Open Under New Management
European science. Bug Bastille to open under new management
The Colonial Bastille:A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940
The Colonial Bastille: A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862–1940
Storming the Bastille: the effect of electric fields on the ionospheric F-layer
Non-Potentiality of the Magnetic Field Beneath the Eruptive Filament in the Bastille Event
Historical events as transformations of structures: Inventing revolution at the Bastille
Prediction in Real Time of the 2000 July 14 Heliospheric Shock Wave and its Companions During the `Bastille' Epoch *