Bastille Day, the annual celebration of the start of the French Revolution, is recognized on July 14, when revolutionaries seized the Bastille fortress and political prison in 1789. People around the ...

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The Bastille, built in the 1300s, was a structure constructed to protect the city of Paris from attack by the English. Later, the fortress, a symbol of King Louis XVI's rule, was used as a prison, ...

The Fourth of July isn't the only Independence Day celebration this month. Bastille Day, celebrated annually on July 14, is France's Independence Day—but it's not only celebrated in France. In ...

Today, July 14, is Bastille Day. It is the anniversary of the day in 1789 when French commoners stormed the Bastille prison fortress in Paris in a brazen challenge to the monarchy, marking the ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Colonial Williamsburg’s Mark Schneider, portraying Marquis de Lafayette talked about the French Revolution and the storming of the Bastille in 1789 ...

PARIS — France celebrated its national holiday Friday with whizzing warplanes and a grand Bastille Day parade in Paris — and with more than 100,000 police deployed around the country to prevent a new ...

Today, July 14, raise a glass to liberty, equality, and charcuterie—er, fraternity. Bastille Day, or La fête nationale, is French National Day which commemorates the storming of Bastille during the ...

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Bastille Day 2009 celebrations in New Orleans, Sunday, July 12, 2009 mark French Revolution. Toni Leming, dressed as Marie Antoinette, hands out cake to visitors to the French Quarter as Bastille Day ...

Bastille Day, which is a national holiday in France, celebrates the actions of a mob of Frenchmen, tired of the rule of their king, who stormed a prison to get weapons and free prisoners. It marked ...