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Bastille Day is the common name given in English-speaking countries to the national day of France, which is celebrated on 14 July each year.It is referred to, both legally [3] and commonly, as le 14 juillet (French: [lə katɔʁz(ə) ʒɥijɛ]) in French, though la fête nationale is also used in the press.
1789 – Storming of the Bastille in Paris. This event escalates the widespread discontent into the French Revolution. [8] Bastille Day is still celebrated annually in France. [9] 1790 – Inaugural Fête de la Fédération is held to celebrate the unity of the French people and the national reconciliation. [10]
Paris is hosting an extra-special guest for France’s national holiday Sunday — the Olympic flame lighting up the city’s grandiose military parade for Bastille Day. Just 12 days before the ...
Nevertheless, as a potent symbol of the Ancien Régime, its destruction was viewed as a triumph and Bastille Day is still celebrated every year. [47] In French culture, some see its fall as the start of the Revolution. [48] The Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789; the iconic event of the Revolution, still commemorated each year as Bastille Day
July 14 is Bastille Day, a French national holiday that commemorates the storming of the Bastille in 1789 and the beginning of the French Revolution. It is the perfect excuse to feast on your ...
An eyewitness painting of the siege of the Bastille by Claude Cholat A plan of the Bastille and surrounding buildings made immediately after 1789; the red dot marks the perspective of Claude Cholat's painting of the siege. Flag of the regiment defending the Bastille. On the morning of 14 July 1789, the city of Paris was in a state of alarm.
He gathered up enough investors to collect $200,000 (roughly $3.5 million in today’s money), started building a tiny building about 3 stories tall using his own construction crew, and pocketed ...
The Bastille Day military parade, also known as the 14 July military parade, translation of the French name of Défilé militaire du 14 juillet, is a French military parade that has been held on the morning of Bastille Day, 14 July, each year in Paris since 1880, almost without exception.