The Bastille
77.1: Height in feet of the Bastille’s eight towers
15: Thickness in feet of the outer walls
7: Inmates in the prison when it was stormed on July 14, 1789
30,000: Pounds of gunpowder in the prison on that date
98: Number of attackers who died storming the prison
Source: www.discoverfrance.net
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