Bastille Day

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14 July celebrates the storming of the Bastille and the anniversary of the Fête de la Fédération. The French Revolution had transformative effects throughout all of Europe, making it an occasion to celebrate and reflect not just for the French, but for all the world.

Vive la belle France!
 
Iirc at the time of the storming of the Bastille there was hardly anyone inside it. One of the very few prisoners was the Marquis de Sade. Definitely a democrat and friend of the people :)
 
metatron said:
Oh great, this will be just like the specific threads we had on April 25th, April 30th, May 3rd, June 5th, June 6th, June 12th and June 17th and the ones we will have on July 14th and August 1st?



Oh, wait...
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Smellincoffee said:
Vive la belle France!
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I appreciate the effort. But i'm rather confident that your memory won't last another 330 days. So next year i'll get to b**** again.
 
Yeah, the French Revolution was an awesome force for good in the world and Napoleon wasn't such a bad guy. :mischief:

Cue Dachs-rage in 3... 2... 1...
 
Happy Bastille Day Frenchies! xxx ooo (sorta... it's a love-hate thing) from America!
 
Happy killing of rich french people day!
 
"Let them eat cake."
 
Dachs said:
The revolution sucked a long time before Napoleon's coup.
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Yes it did. Nor sure where your departure is, but mine is 9 Thermidor (actually a few months earlier, with Danton's betrayal and execution, but the Reactionary Coup is as good a point as any). My point was that Napoleon's bastardization of the Revolution is not a part of the revolution itself. There's a reason it's called Bonapartism even when not talking about The Corsican.
 
Remember the Vendée!
 
Cheezy the Wiz said:
14 July actually commemorates the Feast of the Federation, a celebration of the creation of the Constitutional Monarchy in France, in 1790.
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Well the Storming of the Bastille is still cooler :D
 
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