Bastille Day

Bastille Square, Paris

Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Today is Bastille Day, France's most important national holiday. It celebrates the day in 1789 when mobs of French citizens stormed the Bastille, a Paris prison. Though there were fewer than 10 inmates in the prison at the time, the victory was considered symbolic of the uprising of the modern French people at the onset of the French Revolution.

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