BASTILLE DAY July 14, 2018, Vive La France!
~ Millions of French people all over the world are celebrating Bastille Day, a holiday that honors democracy and equality in France. Bastille Day commemorates the storming of the Bastille during the French Revolution. On July 14, 1789, just two days after the revolution began, a mob broke into the Bastille Fortress in Paris, which held stockpiles of weapons as well as political prisoners. After taking gunpowder and arms, the mob killed the prison's governor and infamously held his head on a stick, according to the British Library. The storming sent a signal to the French monarchy that the French people were embracing the revolution's motto, liberté, égalité, fraternité, or liberty, equality and brotherhood. The riot was a call for the establishment of a republic in France in the face of an oppressive regime and food shortages that spurred on the revolution.
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this was also my sweet Grandmother's birthday. 