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Hot Damn, it's Bastille Day

HarrierHarrier The Star Spangled ManRegistered User regular
edited July 2012 in Social Entropy++
Or rather La Fête Nationale, as the French themselves call it.

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It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789; the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern nation, and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which preceded the First Republic, during the French Revolution. Festivities and official ceremonies are held all over France. The oldest and largest regular military parade in Europe is held on the morning of 14 July, on the Champs-Élysées avenue in Paris in front of the President of the Republic, French officials and foreign guests.

In France they have a parade, fireworks, and more or less treat it like Americans treat the Fourth of July. Which, for them, it sort of is.

So I'll wish my French brethren happy Bastille Day. Liberté, égalité, fraternité.

I don't wanna kill anybody. I don't like bullies. I don't care where they're from.
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