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What happen on Bastille Day?

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The Bastille Day Military Parade (or 14 July Military Parade, translation of the French name Défilé militaire du 14 juillet) is a French military parade held each year in Paris, in the morning of the 14th of July.

The parade passes down the Champs-Élysées from the Arc de Triomphe to the Place de la Concorde where the Président de la République, his government and foreign ambassadors in France stand. This is a popular event in France, broadcasted on French TV, and is the largest military parade in Europe to take place regularly. Some years, guest foreign troops take part in the parade, or foreign statesmen attend it.

Smaller military parades are held in other large French cities with local troops

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AnswerI believe the people of France have a parade; hang flags out and celebrate by eating and drinking. AnswerMost cities and villages organize some kind of ball, traditionally called "le bal des pompiers" (the firemen's ball). There is also frequently a communal meal, and the night ends with the most important display of fireworks of the year, together with New Year's Eve's fireworks.
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On July 14, 1789, Parisian revolutionaries stormed the Bastille to obtain weapons and free the prisoners in the jail part of the building, assuming most of them were political prisoners incarcerated via the King of France's lettres de cachet(incarceration orders).

They took hostage and later killed the director of the building.

It turned out that the jail contained only seven prisoners, only one of which was a political prisoner and paraded in the streets of Paris as a symbol.

The very next day, demolition of the Bastille building started.

Bastille Day is the anniversary date of the event.

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Parisian mobs overran the Bastille, a political prison, in search of weapons to defend themselves. In doing so, they symbolically took down the repressive French monarchy.

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July 14th is a National holiday in France, it celebrates the storming of the Bastille in Paris and started the French Revolution.

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