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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Happy Bastille Day!

I thought in honor of Bastille Day, you might want to see what is left of the Bastille.


So those curvy bricks in the street?


And what looks like maybe the outline of a wall?


That's what is left of the Bastille.  In what appeared to me to be French tradition, the Bastille was destroyed.

Bastille Day commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération (The National Celebration), 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.

Today they had a parade here (we visited there in March, quite a long time before the parade would actually be held...)



I hope you enjoyed your Bastille Day as much as any Frenchman!


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