fourteenth of july

Bastille Day: July 14, 2010

Bastille Day is celebrated in France as a public holiday.

Bastille Day is celebrated in France every year on fourteenth of July to commemorate the start of the great French Revolution of the eighteenth century which put an end to the French Aristocracy. The day was when the rebels stormed the fortress of Bastille Prison and broke out the inmates, and hence causing the initiation of the great revolution, which was later recognized as the foundation for the development of the great country of France.

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