All 3 Uses of
citadel
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Behind these palaces, extended in all directions, now broken, fenced in, battlemented like a citadel, now veiled by great trees like a Carthusian convent, the immense and multiform enclosure of that miraculous Hôtel de Saint-Pol, where the King of France possessed the means of lodging superbly two and twenty princes of the rank of the dauphin and the Duke of Burgundy, with their domestics and their suites, without counting the great lords, and the emperor when he came to view Paris, and the lions, who had their separate Hôtel at the royal Hôtel.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- Thus master of the citadel, he uttered a shout of joy, and suddenly halted, petrified.†
Chpt 2.10.4 *
- He was to take his departure on the next day but one for his citadel of Montilz-les-Tours.†
Chpt 2.10.5
Definition:
a stronghold or fortress