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Revolutions are violent, especially when they are over-throwing 10 centuries of monarchy. Did you know that the 14th of July is not a celebration of the stormi

by dudul 11y ago

Revolutions are violent, especially when they are over-throwing 10 centuries of monarchy. Did you know that the 14th of July is not a celebration of the storming of the Bastille? It is actually celebrating the 14th of July 1790, the Fête de la Fédération, a pacific celebration of the French nation.

cmdkeen 11y ago
Or it has its origins in both. Especially as the Fête de la Fédération was the commemoration the year after the storming of the Bastille. It might help were the 14th not commonly referred to as Bastille day and feature a military parade.
- seszett 11y ago
  14th July isn't referred to as Bastille day in France though, and the parade doesn't have much to do with the Revolution either, it's just common for countries to have a military parade on the national day.
- dudul 11y ago
  Try to call it Bastille Day in France, nobody would have a clue what you're talking about. The parade started in 1880, and was a political move after the defeat of 1870. Today it's a diplomatic event, foreign corps are invited, as well as heads of state.
- BrandoElFollito 11y ago
  It is referred to as "Prise de la Bastille", not "Bastille Day"
agumonkey 11y ago
In 1989, for the bicentennial, primary school held ceremonies/parties, some kids built a cardboard milk box Bastille prison replica.
Chinjut 11y ago
"There were two 'Reigns of Terror,' if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the 'horrors' of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves." —A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain

by dudul 11y ago

cmdkeen 11y ago

Or it has its origins in both. Especially as the Fête de la Fédération was the commemoration the year after the storming of the Bastille. It might help were the 14th not commonly referred to as Bastille day and feature a military parade.

seszett 11y ago
14th July isn't referred to as Bastille day in France though, and the parade doesn't have much to do with the Revolution either, it's just common for countries to have a military parade on the national day.
dudul 11y ago
Try to call it Bastille Day in France, nobody would have a clue what you're talking about. The parade started in 1880, and was a political move after the defeat of 1870. Today it's a diplomatic event, foreign corps are invited, as well as heads of state.
BrandoElFollito 11y ago
It is referred to as "Prise de la Bastille", not "Bastille Day"

agumonkey 11y ago

In 1989, for the bicentennial, primary school held ceremonies/parties, some kids built a cardboard milk box Bastille prison replica.

Chinjut 11y ago

"There were two 'Reigns of Terror,' if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the 'horrors' of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves." —A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain