Photo of the Day - Happy Le Quatorze Juillet Bastille Day!
Today the French National Day of July 14, Fête de la Fédération, commemorates the date 225 years ago when citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille prison during the French Revolution, freeing the seven prisoners being held there and branding the memory of "Bastille Day" forevermore. (1789) As an interesting historical footnote, one of the keys to the Bastille, a fortress that was torn […]
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