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Bastille Day

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Bastille Day
July 14; French national holiday celebrating the fall of the Bastille prison (1789). [Fr. Hist.: NCE, 245]

Bastille Day
celebration of day Paris mob stormed prison; first outbreak of French Revolution (1789). [Fr. Hist.: EB, I: 866]
See : Rebellion


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Policies worth mentioning: A special night with a special menu at least once every month includes Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras, Bastille Day and more.
Worsley began the meeting by asking everyone to stand as La Marseillaise was played in honor of the attending French representative on Bastille Day.
Illness spread rapidly in Noumea and the southern portion of the colony, in part because of numerous gatherings in celebration of Bastille Day on July 14.
 
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