File:Prise de la Bastille.jpg

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Беларуская: Бернар Журдан,акварэль

Català: Al centre es veu l'arrest del marquès de Launay.

Deutsch: in der Mitte die Verhaftung von Bernard René Jourdan, Marquis de Launay (1740-1789).

English: Prise de la Bastille by Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houel. Watercolour, 37.8 x 50.5 cm. Visible in the center is the arrest of Bernard René Jourdan, marquis de Launay (1740-1789). Note: This is a different painting than wikidata:Q99848320, despite being by the same artist on the same subject.

Español: En el centro se apreciaba el arresto del marqués de Launay.

Français : Au centre, on peut voir l'arrestation du gouverneur de la Bastille, Bernard René Jourdan, marquis de Launay (1740-1789).

Português: no centro se vê a prisão de Jourdan de René de Bernard, marquês de Launay (1740-1789).

Date

1789

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Author



Alternative names	Jean-Pierre Louis Laurent Houël
Description	French printmaker, drawer, painter, designer and graphic artist
Date of birth/death	28 June 1735	14 November 1813
Location of birth/death	Rouen	Paris
Authority file	: Q2706271 VIAF: 9945691 ISNI: 0000000122762899 ULAN: 500028641 LCCN: nr91011648 NLA: 35993344 WorldCat

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	09:15, 6 May 2020	7,877 × 5,877 (9.51 MB)	Alonso de Mendoza	higher and better, same source
	08:31, 6 February 2014	2,510 × 1,874 (1.33 MB)	Jaredzimmerman (WMF)	Cropped 1 % horizontally and 1 % vertically using CropTool with precise mode.
	15:11, 19 December 2011	2,529 × 1,899 (1.67 MB)	Soerfm	Crop, color, brightness
	02:01, 10 September 2011	2,553 × 1,919 (883 KB)	Pmx	higher resolution
	06:15, 12 April 2005	630 × 472 (65 KB)	Dodo	Painting by Jean-Pierre Louis Laurent Houel (1735-1813), entitled ''Prise de la Bastille'' ("The storm of the Bastille"). From the Bibliothèque Nationale Française, see [http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/Notice.php?O=07743702] and