{"id":19664,"date":"2011-07-14T09:22:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T07:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/?p=19664"},"modified":"2011-07-14T09:22:52","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T07:22:52","slug":"happy-bastille-day-la-fete-nationale-france-july-14th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/bkblog\/happy-bastille-day-la-fete-nationale-france-july-14th\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Bastille Day La F\u00eate Nationale France July 14th"},"content":{"rendered":"
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July 14th<\/h3>\n

Bastille Day<\/strong>\u00a0is the\u00a0French<\/a>\u00a0National Day<\/a>\u00a0which is celebrated on 14 July of each year. In France, it is formally called\u00a0La F\u00eate Nationale<\/strong>\u00a0(The National Celebration<\/em>) and commonly\u00a0le quatorze juillet<\/strong>\u00a0(the fourteenth of July<\/em>). It commemorates the 1790\u00a0F\u00eate de la F\u00e9d\u00e9ration<\/a>, held on the first anniversary of the\u00a0storming of the Bastille<\/a>\u00a0on 14 July 1789; the anniversary of the storming of the\u00a0Bastille<\/a>\u00a0fortress-prison was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern nation, and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which preceded the\u00a0First Republic<\/a>, during the\u00a0French Revolution<\/a>. Festivities and official ceremonies are held all over France. The oldest and largest regular\u00a0military parade<\/a>\u00a0in Europe is held on the morning of 14 July, on the\u00a0Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es<\/a>\u00a0avenue in\u00a0Paris<\/a>\u00a0in front of the\u00a0President of the Republic<\/a>, French officials and foreign guests.<\/p>\n

On 17 May 1789,\u00a0Louis XVI<\/a>\u00a0convened the\u00a0Estates-General<\/a>\u00a0to hear their grievances. The deputies of the\u00a0Third Estate<\/a>\u00a0representing the common people (the two others were the\u00a0Catholic Church<\/a>and\u00a0nobility<\/a>) decided to break away and form a\u00a0National Assembly<\/a>. On 20 June the deputies of the Third Estate took the\u00a0Tennis Court Oath<\/a>, swearing not to separate until a constitution had been established. They were gradually joined by delegates of the other estates;\u00a0Louis XVI<\/a>\u00a0started to recognize their validity on 27 June. The assembly re-named itself the National Constituent Assembly on 9 July, and began to function as a legislature and to draft a constitution.<\/p>\n

In the wake of the 11 July dismissal of\u00a0Jacques Necker<\/a>, the people of\u00a0Paris<\/a>, fearful that they and their representatives would be attacked by the royal military, and seeking to gain ammunition and gunpowder for the general populace, stormed the\u00a0Bastille<\/a>, a fortress-prison in Paris which had often held people jailed on the basis of\u00a0lettres de cachet<\/a><\/em>, arbitrary royal indictments that could not be appealed. Besides holding a large cache of ammunition and gunpowder, the Bastille had been known for holding political prisoners whose writings had displeased the royal government, and was thus a symbol of the\u00a0absolutism<\/a>\u00a0of the monarchy. As it happened, at the time of the siege in July 1789 there were only seven inmates, none of great political significance.<\/p>\n

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When the crowd\u2014eventually reinforced by mutinous\u00a0gardes fran\u00e7aises<\/a><\/em>\u2014proved a fair match for the fort’s defenders, Governor de Launay, the commander of the Bastille, capitulated and opened the gates to avoid a mutual massacre. However, possibly because of a misunderstanding, fighting resumed. Ninety-eight attackers and just one defender died in the actual fighting, but in the aftermath, de Launay and seven other defenders were killed, as was the ‘pr\u00e9v\u00f4t des marchands’ (roughly, mayor)\u00a0Jacques de Flesselles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The storming of the Bastille was more important as a rallying point and symbolic act of rebellion than a practical act of defiance.<\/p>\n

Shortly after the storming of the Bastille, on 4 August\u00a0feudalism<\/a>\u00a0was abolished and on 26 August, the\u00a0Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen<\/a>\u00a0proclaimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bastille Day is the French National Day which is celebrated on 14 July of each year. In France, it is formally called La F\u00eate Nationale (The National Celebration) and commonly le quatorze juillet (the fourteenth of July)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[9,775],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paG8MM-57a","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26030,"url":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/eclectic\/happy-la-fete-nationale-14t-july-france\/","url_meta":{"origin":19664,"position":0},"title":"Happy La F\u00eate Nationale Bastille Day 14th of July 2012 France","author":"Benjamin Kanarek","date":"July 14, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy Bastille Day to our French friends and to one of the oldest Democracies on Earth. 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