What was the popular name for the Paris prison at 232 Rue Saint-Antoine that was stormed during the French Revolution in 1789?
Porte Saint-Antoine Porte Saint-Antoine The porte Saint-Antoine was one of the gates of Paris. There were two gates named the porte Saint-Antoine, both now demolished, of which the best known was that guarded by the Bastille, on the site now occupied by the start of Rue de la Bastille in the 4th arrondissement of Paris. One of the oldest routes through Paris, dating to the Roman era, was that through the centre of the city heading for Meaux and Melun. This road began in Paris with what is now the Rue du Pourtour-Saint-Gervais as far as the Porte Baudoyer, the gate into
Rue du Cloître-Saint-Benoît Rue du Cloître-Saint-Benoît Rue du Cloître-Saint-Benoît was a now-disappeared street in the Sorbonne district of Paris, demolished to build the present rue des Écoles. It was named after the cloister of the église Saint-Benoît-le-Bétourné and just before the French Revolution it fell within that church's parish. It was made part of the Chalier sector during the Revolution - that sector was renamed the Sorbonne district when the original 11th arrondissement of Paris was formed in 1795. It began at rue des Mathurins-Saint-Jacques (now rue Du Sommerard) and ended at passage Saint-Benoît-Saint-Jacques. Its house numbers were black and the last numbers