Bastille Day

When Celebrated

Always on July 14th

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About the Holiday

Bastille Day is a French National holiday. It marks the Storming of the Bastille of July 14th, 1789. This event marked the beginning of the French Revolution, the end of the monarchy and beginning of the modern republic and sovereign nation. The Bastille was a fortess and prison in France.

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