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<p>[QUOTE="Kasia, post: 1488376, member: 31533"]Not to be mean, but from Wikipedia: <b>"Bastille Day</b> is the name given in English-speaking countries to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France" rel="nofollow">French</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day" rel="nofollow">National Day</a>, which is celebrated on the 14th of July each year. In France, it is formally called <b>La Fête Nationale</b> (French pronunciation: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_French" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_French" rel="nofollow">[la.fɛt.na.sjɔ'nal]</a> ; <i>The National Celebration</i>) and commonly <b>Le quatorze juillet</b> (French pronunciation: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_French" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_French" rel="nofollow">[lə.ka.tɔʁz.ʒɥi'jɛ]</a> ; <i>the fourteenth of July</i>). It commemorates the 1790 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%AAte_de_la_F%C3%A9d%C3%A9ration" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%AAte_de_la_F%C3%A9d%C3%A9ration" rel="nofollow">Fête de la Fédération</a>, held on the first anniversary of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storming_of_the_Bastille" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storming_of_the_Bastille" rel="nofollow">storming of the Bastille</a> on 14 July 1789; the anniversary of the storming of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastille" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastille" rel="nofollow">Bastille</a> 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 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Republic_%28France%29" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Republic_%28France%29" rel="nofollow">First Republic</a>, during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution" rel="nofollow">French Revolution</a>. Festivities and official ceremonies are held all over France."</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>For the people who celebrate Bastille Day (that would be most of the French), this is a national holiday, akin to the U.S.'s Fourth of July and Canada's Canada Day (July 1st). If you are going to ask "how'd that work out for everyone? about the French, why not be equal and do so for everyone celebrating their "freedom" from oppression now in a national day?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And sometimes the law of unintended consequences gives good things, not just bad things. People just cannot foresee all the consequences of any individual action or law or revolution.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Kasia, post: 1488376, member: 31533"]Not to be mean, but from Wikipedia: [B]"Bastille Day[/B] is the name given in English-speaking countries to the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France"]French[/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day"]National Day[/URL], which is celebrated on the 14th of July each year. In France, it is formally called [B]La Fête Nationale[/B] (French pronunciation: [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_French"][la.fɛt.na.sjɔ'nal][/URL] ; [I]The National Celebration[/I]) and commonly [B]Le quatorze juillet[/B] (French pronunciation: [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_French"][lə.ka.tɔʁz.ʒɥi'jɛ][/URL] ; [I]the fourteenth of July[/I]). It commemorates the 1790 [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%AAte_de_la_F%C3%A9d%C3%A9ration"]Fête de la Fédération[/URL], held on the first anniversary of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storming_of_the_Bastille"]storming of the Bastille[/URL] on 14 July 1789; the anniversary of the storming of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastille"]Bastille[/URL] 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 [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Republic_%28France%29"]First Republic[/URL], during the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution"]French Revolution[/URL]. Festivities and official ceremonies are held all over France." For the people who celebrate Bastille Day (that would be most of the French), this is a national holiday, akin to the U.S.'s Fourth of July and Canada's Canada Day (July 1st). If you are going to ask "how'd that work out for everyone? about the French, why not be equal and do so for everyone celebrating their "freedom" from oppression now in a national day? And sometimes the law of unintended consequences gives good things, not just bad things. People just cannot foresee all the consequences of any individual action or law or revolution.[/QUOTE]
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