The Bastille

AVANTI MODA's "Autumn in Paris" special report opens in the Bastille district, tracing the neighborhood's transformation from the site of the infamous 14th-century Bastille prison — stormed by Parisians on July 14, 1789, an event now commemorated as Bastille Day — into one of the city's most vibrant, café-lined quarters, anchored today by the July Column monument and the bustling Marché d'Aligre.