• [Bastille Day] also known as La Fête Nationale (National Celebration) or le quatorze [juillet] (the fourteenth of July) is the French national holiday which has been celebrated on [14 July] each year since 1880.
    Contrary to popular belief, it does not commemorate the storming of the Bastille as this day was considered too bloody.
    It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, which was celebrating the end of divine right of kings and the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789
    On May 21, 1880, Benjamin Raspail MP tabled the legislation making the July 14 the national holiday.


    Bastille day meaning & definition 1 of Bastille day.


  • The start of a bloody revolution in France, a period where many thousands died in paranoid France. This period also saw [Frances] [aristocracy] takes thier money elsewhere, making the country poor and weak. [Bastille day] marks the beggining of one of the worst perods of Frances history.

    Bastille day meaning & definition 2 of Bastille day.


  • [Frances] national [holiday]. Also [Cedrics] birthday.

    Bastille day meaning & definition 3 of Bastille day.


  • A day in which all [french people] [get together] to [celebrate] cunninglinguistism

    Bastille day meaning & definition 4 of Bastille day.

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