Bastille day : A bit of history.
Jul
15
2005

Some people have asked me what Bastille day was so I thought I’d post an explanation of it.

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Bastille Day is the French national holiday, celebrated on 14 July each year. It is called Fête Nationale (National Holiday) in France. It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789; the Fête de la Fédération was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern French “nation,” and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which preceded the First Republic, during the French Revolution.

Posted in Of mention | Published on July 15th, 2005

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    July 16th, 2006 at 10:55 am

    [...] July 14th was Bastille Day, a French national holiday. We went to the Bal Musette organised by the Alliance Francaise of Melbourne. I’ve updated the picture gallery with some pictures of that night. [...]

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