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13 unusual facts about Bastille day


Benjamin Raspail

As member of the council for Seine for the republican left, Raspail proposed the law, on 21 May 1880, which made 14 July a national holiday in commemoration of the storming of the Bastille and the Fête de la Fédération.

Canoe Island French Camp

To celebrate the French Revolution and Bastille Day, a water-balloon fight (aka "Storming the Bastille") is held.

CP/M

ZCPR3 was released on Bastille Day, July 14, 1984, as a set of nine disks from SIG/M.

Dag Otto Lauritzen

Lauritzen rode eight Tours de France and won a stage in the Pyrenees at Luz-Ardiden on Bastille Day, 14 July 1987.

Dr. Renault's Secret

To back this up we are told about the French holiday of Bastille Day.

Embassy of France, Ottawa

Construction on the new mission building began on the property in 1936 with the first stone being laid by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King on Bastille Day.

Grand Prix de Paris

It is currently held at an evening meeting on July 14, the French national holiday of Bastille Day.

Gustave Bouvet

Millerand and other dignitaries were traveling in a procession of three carriages along the Champs-Élysées after returning from a Bastille Day military review.

Hôtel du Nord

Edmond goes upstairs and gives himself over to his pursuer who kills him, but no one hears the shots because of the commotion on the streets for Bastille Day.

Les mariés de la tour Eiffel

: The new couple have a wedding breakfast on Bastille Day (July 14) at a table on one of the platforms of the famous tower.

Maxime Brunerie

Maxime Brunerie (born 21 May 1977) is a man who attempted to assassinate French President Jacques Chirac on July 14, 2002 in Paris, during the Bastille Day parade on the Champs-Élysées.

Moh Chelali

On July 14, 2002, he was one of three civilians who overpowered a gunman attempting to assassinate French President Jacques Chirac during Bastille Day celebrations in Paris.

Prix Maurice de Nieuil

It is currently held on the evening of July 14, the French national holiday of Bastille Day.


2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21

This Bastille Day stage saw a large breakaway with thirteen riders (top-ten plus Giunti Massimo, Stephan Schreck and Giovanni Lombardi) that gained over four minutes on the peloton.

Christian Dornier

Prime minister Michel Rocard sent his condolences and all festivities planned for celebrating the Bastille Day on July 14 were cancelled in Baume-les-Dames and replaced with a solemn ceremony to commemorate the victims of the shooting.

Lunch Poems

“The Day Lady Died” begins, “It is 12:20 in New York a Friday/three days after Bastille day, yes/it is 1959 and I go get a shoeshine.” In the poem, he references Paul Verlaine, New World Writing, Brendan Behan, Jean Genet’s plays The Balcony and The Blacks and New York locations like the Golden Griffin and the Ziegfeld Theatre.

Paris la Defense

Paris La Defense – Une Ville En Concert was a concert held by musician Jean Michel Jarre on the district of La Défense in Paris on Bastille Day, July 14, 1990.