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How do the French celebrate Bastille Day?

Why do the French celebrate Bastille day?

  • I was wondering why they celebrate the start of a, ultimately, failed revolution, initially the revolution was successful, but after Napoleon escaped exile and overthrew the king of France, Louis XVIII, he was defeated at Waterloo, and sent back into exile, Louis XVIII became king again, and France lost its power. So why do they celebrate the holiday?

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    Genesis R, Phillippe and Stasil have answered your question - for an interesting point of reference I am including a link to a photograph of the Key to Bastille that was presented to George Washington on 17 March 1790 by one Marquis de Lafayette. To this day it still hangs where George Washington placed it within his estate at Mount Vernon. And while we're at it - here is a photo of the statue of Marquis de Lafayette in Washington DC just across the North Lawn of the Whitehouse. http://0.tqn.com/d/dc/1/0/a/t/Lafayette_2.jpg Great question....star coming, Gerry EDIT: I tend to agree with Phillippe above; I prefer Camerone Day to Cinco de Mayo and one Captain Jean Danjou.

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Because this revolution was the first of several . Louis XVIII was upset by the 1830 revolution, then the next one Louis-Philippe by the 1848 revolution, then Napoleon III by the 1871 revolution and from then France has always been a republic . The ideals and the extraordinary efforts from popular masses started in 1789 deserved a celebration . This revolution triggered many attempts all around the world, and several others in France . It's because of that French working class has conquered social advantages from the rich, and still now the bosses don't dare doing everything they wish . Edit : I just remembered . why do people celebrate 5 de Mayo in America ? It was only a battle in 1862 in Puebla . The next year the French army took Puebla, and soon after that the whole Mexico . The French only left Mexico in 1867 for political reasons, not by force . Do you find clever to celebrate a victorious battle that was followed by a lost war ?

philippe

Bastille Day is the French National Day, which is celebrated on 14 July of each year. In France, it is formally called La Fête Nationale (The National Celebration) and commonly le quatorze juillet (the fourteenth of July). It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789; the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille fortress-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 First Republic, during the French Revolution.

staisil

Read Rose of Versailles by Ikeda or watch the anime adaptation.They explain that the fall of Bastille represented a new era where the commoners have hope of rising as equals to aristocrat and people will no longer be solely judged based on what caste they were born into.

The precedent answers have said it all. Also, the French revolution didn't really fail, ultimately, France became a democracy.

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