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Shamou · 07-14-2007, 05:33 AM

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Bastille Day is the French national holiday, celebrated on 14 July each year. In France, it is called "Fête Nationale" ("National Holiday"), in official parlance, or more commonly "quatorze juillet" ("14th 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 storming of the Bastille was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern French "nation", and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which preceded the First Republic, during the French Revolution.

So to all our friends from France... may you have a wonderful day... and "Vive la France."

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Raoh · 07-14-2007, 09:52 PM

thank you

it was indeed a nice day for me

kisses
bye

Love · 07-14-2007, 09:59 PM

In Midtown East in Manhattan they have a street party and everyone sells yummy french desserts!
Whoops. Don't want to reduce the holiday to a food fest, but the food is quite nice...

Rose of Cairo · 07-15-2007, 11:02 AM

in France every holiday is a pretext for a food fest. nobody cares about silly fête de la fédération. what matters is : you don't work, and you eat fine.

{aspiring_to_clarity} · 07-16-2007, 04:32 PM

My Bastille Day was great...it's also my birthday and I was basking in the sun at the coast!

Only thing that would have made it better was the food you are all talking about...yum!

ZHereford · 07-16-2007, 07:23 PM

@ Shamou - Happy Bastille Day mon Canadien pareil!

@ Aspiring - Happy belated birthday!

{aspiring_to_clarity} · 07-16-2007, 07:28 PM

Thanks, Z.

Erki · 07-16-2007, 07:32 PM

My good wishes to you, too, Jen.

{aspiring_to_clarity} · 07-16-2007, 07:35 PM

Thanks, Erki. Sorry for the hijack.

Vive la France and Canada too!

Shamou · 07-16-2007, 09:33 PM

Thank you guys... In Quebec we love what we affectionally call, "Les maudit Français..."

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Raoh Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Some french island lost in indian ocean.. Posts: 21	thank you it was indeed a nice day for me kisses bye __________________ Natural Born Thinker

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{aspiring_to_clarity} Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Texas, USA Posts: 3,635 ${aspiring_to_clarity} is on a distinguished road$	My Bastille Day was great...it's also my birthday and I was basking in the sun at the coast! Only thing that would have made it better was the food you are all talking about...yum! __________________ I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies. This is the dawning of the rest of our lives. --Green Day The more I see, the less I know, the more I'd like to let it go. --Red Hot Chili Peppers
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ZHereford Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 913	@ Shamou - Happy Bastille Day mon Canadien pareil! @ Aspiring - Happy belated birthday! __________________ www.essentiallifeskills.net

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{aspiring_to_clarity} Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Texas, USA Posts: 3,635 ${aspiring_to_clarity} is on a distinguished road$	Thanks, Z. __________________ I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies. This is the dawning of the rest of our lives. --Green Day The more I see, the less I know, the more I'd like to let it go. --Red Hot Chili Peppers
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{aspiring_to_clarity} Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Texas, USA Posts: 3,635 ${aspiring_to_clarity} is on a distinguished road$	Thanks, Erki. Sorry for the hijack. Vive la France and Canada too! __________________ I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies. This is the dawning of the rest of our lives. --Green Day The more I see, the less I know, the more I'd like to let it go. --Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Love Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 512	In Midtown East in Manhattan they have a street party and everyone sells yummy french desserts! Whoops. Don't want to reduce the holiday to a food fest, but the food is quite nice...

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Rose of Cairo Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: France now and Norway in seven days! Posts: 2,928	in France every holiday is a pretext for a food fest. nobody cares about silly fête de la fédération. what matters is : you don't work, and you eat fine.

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Erki Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 789	My good wishes to you, too, Jen.

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Shamou Banned Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Quebec, Canada Posts: 3,811	Thank you guys... In Quebec we love what we affectionally call, "Les maudit Français..." .

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