No. it's a republican thing.
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were the King and Queen of France.
The storming of the Bastille took place on 14 July 1789. The King at that time was Louis XVI, who was sympathetic to some of the revolutionaries' demands. He was a well-meaning if ineffectual king.
Lying peacefully in his grave. I think you have the wrong Louis. The reigning King, Louis XVI, was out hunting that day. He didn't catch anything.
King Louis XVI. By the way, the Bastille was stormed on July 14th 1789. One year later that same day, this event was remembered and celebrated as still happens today.
The Bastille was the Royal Prison. By taking the Bastille, the people were telling the King he had lost his power of threat.
France does not have an Independence Day. France has been independent since the Romans left. In France there is a National Festival (Fête Nationale) called in English Bastille Day, which is on July 14.
Bastille day is the French National Holiday that marks the start of the French Revolution, which began on the 14th of July, 1789. On this day, the French prison and medieval fortress known as the Bastille, was stormed. It represented the royal authority that the people hated.
Not on the original Bastille Day, but on Bastille Day held several years later.
Bastille Day is in July, on the 14th.
Bastille Day was created in 1880.
Bastille Day happens in summer, as it is July 14.
The French Revolution began on 14 July 1789 (Bastille Day).