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The memory of the French Revolution became one of their main battlegrounds, and the choice of a national day an object of dispute. Read more: Friday essay: what is it about Versailles?

Yup, the French don’t call the day Bastille Day, instead referring to the date as ‘la Fête Nationale Française‘ or ‘Fete Nat‘ or even a simple ‘la Fête du 14 Juliet‘.

It is formally called La fete nationale (The National Celebration) or, more commonly in France, La quatorze juillet (the fourteenth of July). The French do not use the term "Bastille Day." What ...

Bastille Day celebrates the rebellion that ignited the French Revolution. On July 14, 1789, thousands of Parisians stormed the prison to protest King Louis XVI's abuse of power.

Signifying the start of the French Revolution, more than 200 years on it's still a central event in the nation's calendar, with celebrations including military parades.

The Fête Nationale commemorates the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789 and its one-year anniversary, Fête de la Fédération, when a new government, with Louis XVI as a constitutional ...

FRENCHTOWN — The Frenchtown Business & Professional Association will be hosting the 13th annual Bastille Day Fete on Saturday, July 16, from 12 to 6 p.m. in historic downtown Frenchtown. The ...

Illustration of the storming of the Bastille prison, in an event that has come to be seen as the start of the French Revolution, 14th July 1789.Hulton Archive / Getty Images The French national ...

Annual Rosenberg Fête: All That Glitters Is Not Gold: The Art, Form, and Function of Gilt Bronze in the French 18th-Century Interior Step back in time to 18th-century France at the annual ...