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Note H The BASTILE and MICHAEL LATTA Among the curiosities belonging to the late Miss Stafford, Of Trenton, N.J. is a gold breastpin which is a facsimila of the key of the Bastile, of Paris, France. During the Revolution that brought Louis XVI to the block on that memorable day, 14th of July, 1789. MICHAEL LATTA, a Frenchman, led the attack upon the prison and fortress, and this pin was awarded to him for his daring and gallantry by a secret order then existing in France. He afterwards emigrated to this country (USA), and Married for his 2nd wife a friend of Miss Stafford and settled in N.J.. Years latter the wife gave the souvenir to miss Stafford. This was taken from a Philadelphia paper, Nov 1879, Before the 17.The above was given to me by Mrs. Mary A.L. Jones, Daughter of William Sutton Latta, Branch No. 8, Family 11. I have written to various persons an to various courts for information, with no success. The Bastile was destroyed by order of Lafayette, who then sent a picture of it, and the principal key, to Washington, They are now at Mt Vernon,.....Life of Washington, By Washington Irving.