Bastille Day - The Storming of the Bastille

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. < ...

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14 July is the French national day, simply called Fête nationale or 14 juillet (though it is generally referred to as Bastille Day in English). Many cities hold fireworks during the night. It is also customary that firefighters organise dancing parties (bals du 14 juillet). The day officially celebrates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, though it is often associated, even in France, with the Storming of the Bastille. Military parades are held on the morning of 14 July, the largest of which takes place on the Champs-Élysées avenue ...

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On 30 June 1878, a feast had been set in Paris by official decision to honour the Republic (the event was immortalised by a painting by Claude Monet). On the 14 July 1879, another feast took place, with a semi-official aspect; the events of the day included a military review in Longchamp, a reception in the Chambre of Deputies, organised and presided by Léon Gambetta, and a Republican Feast in the pré Catelan with Louis Blanc and Victor Hugo. All through France, as Le Figaro wrot ...

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Bastille Day, Bastille Day - Current festivities, Bastille Day - History of the celebration, Bastille Day - Discourse by Henri Martin to the Senate, Bastille Day - Historical background, Bastille Day - The Storming of the Bastille, Bastille Day - The Fête de la Fédération, Bastille Day - Other References

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Bastille Day - The Storming of the Bastille. Main article: Storming of the Bastille. On 5 May 1789, Louis XVI convened the Estates-General to hear their grievances. The deputies of the Third Estate representing the common people (the two others were clergy and nobility) decided to break away and form a National Assembly. On 20 June the deputies of the Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath (named after the place where they had gathered which was a place where an ancestor of tenn ...

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Bastille Day, Bastille Day - Current festivities, Bastille Day - History of the celebration, Bastille Day - Discourse by Henri Martin to the Senate, Bastille Day - Historical background, Bastille Day - The Storming of the Bastille, Bastille Day - The Fête de la Fédération, Bastille Day - Other References

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