Saturday 14 July 2018

Happy Bastille Day!


Today is the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille by the Paris mob on 14 July 1789.


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  1. I've just googled what you say to a French person on the 14th of July for this http://gloarmy.blogspot.com/2011/03/reminder-rappel.html?showComment%5Cx3d1299012130058
    Apparently it's Joyeux Quatorze Juillet, because The French aren't celebrating the storming of the Bastille. The holiday started in 1880 and commemorated a holiday in 1790. Apparently.
    Remember Google is your friend.

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    1. Steve, I think partly right. The present holiday seems to wrap up the 1790 and 1792 celebrations into one and was as you say introduced in 1880. I guess they were economising on public holidays 😜

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