Saturday, July 14, 2012
Quatorze Juillet: Oxford English Disctionary
Quatorze Juillet, Bastille Day, La Fête Nationale: No matter
the title of this French national holiday, parades and fireworks are among the
festivities that commemorate this day in 1789 in Paris, when a mob of angry demonstrators
morphed into a revolutionary force and overran the Bastille garrison.
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