Despite its symbolic heft, the key to the Bastille is fairly unremarkable: seven inches of wrought iron with fleur-de-lis teeth. George Washington treasured it. Upon receiving the key in 1790, he ...
One of George Washington’s prized possessions was an ink-wash drawing of the Bastille, the Parisian prison stormed by French revolutionaries in 1789. He mounted it in the entryway of his Mount Vernon ...