Bastille Day

The Bastille was a prison and fortress built in the 14th century to protect Paris's eastern entrance. At the height of its use, it held political prisoners, but by 1789, it was mostly vacant except for supplies like gunpowder. In fact, the Bastille was supposed to be demolished and replaced with a town square. Revolutionaries had other ideas, though—they wanted to get at that gunpowder, so they stormed the Bastille on July 14, 1789, losing about 100 people in the process. However, they ended up winning the day and proceeded to execute the Bastille's governor and dismantle the building entirely.

Interestingly enough, they don't even call it Bastille Day in France—they use la Fête nationale or le 14 juillet.

Not on the original Bastille Day, but on Bastille Day held several years later.

Le Tour de France is a 3-week long race. On Bastille Day, it could be between the second and third week of the race, it changes a bit every year.

It is important because it represents France

The Bastille was the Royal Prison. By taking the Bastille, the people were telling the King he had lost his power of threat.

i have heard of Bastille day is usa but we don't really celebrate it.

The other name for Bastille Day is in the French language which translates to Le quatorze juillet. Bastille day is celebrated on 14 July each year.

They have a cake called La Buche de Noel that is served after the dinner. Goose is popular as is roast turkey. Oysters are often served and in the South West of France these may be accompanied by hot crepinettes (a sort of sausage).

Champagne, Foie gras also what ever champange is it is probaly not food

None are related to Bastille Day.

After storming the bastille .................there were two laws which came into force ..........

1.abolition of slavery in 1789 summer

2.abolition of fuedal system on 4th august 1789 .....

Unlikely since he died on 1 September 1715 and the Storming of the Bastille happened on 14 July 1789.

14 Juky, though they call it the National Festival (Fête Nationale).

Bastille Day is always celebrated on July 14, regardless of the day of the week.

For 2010, July 14 was on a Wednesday.

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Bastille Day is on July 14 every year, it does not change date according to the week days.

It is the national anthem of France, called La Marseillaise, a revolutionary song.
it is called the "marsaillise' also the national Anthem

No, it has nothing to do with religion. On that day, July 14th 1789, the French revolution began with the storming of a prison called La Bastille, in Paris.

the 14th of July commemorates the storming and the fall of the Bastille, a fortress and prison in the heart of Paris in 1789. The 14th of July marks the beginning of the French Revolution.

La Bastille was the stronghold stormed. This was the French castle that was stormed successfully on the French Independence day. We remember France fondly on this day due to its values, although the US proclamation of these values came before it.

The first Veterans Day was observed as "Armistice Day" in 1921 when an unknown World War I American soldier was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, the highest place of honor in our country. A similar burial of an unknown soldier also occurred in England at the highest places of honor on November 11 and France at the Arc de Triomphe. These events marked the end of WWI at 11 A.M. on 11/11/1918/

On November 11, 1954 this day was officially renamed Veterans Day.

Bastille Day, which is always the 14th of July. It marks the fall of Bastille in the French Revolution in 1789.

Proem is one of Martin Carter's more cryptic poems, at least initially. The background to it offers some insight. In Stewart Brown's introduction to Selected Poems mention is made of an incident where a little girl in identifying Martin Carter as appearing in a

Guyanese paper recognizes him and points him out to her mother as the "Proems" man. The little girl obviously had a problem in pronouncing the word poem. Identity is made the focus of this incident and ultimately the poem "Proem". The poem is about identity and what it means to have another define who you are. Essentially the poem speaks to the issue and even has as its theme the proposition that one will remain who one is no matter what anyone else says, no matter how one is misperceived or undergoes change. A person remains whatever they are and no amount of imposed definitions or misreadings will change that. This concern of the poem highlights the focus of postcolonial writers on the concern of identity. Identity for a country, a people and ultimately a single person. How are we to define ourselves? The suggestion is that words are the vehicle of definition but in the intent and sense of his poem Carter negates this avenue of definition and invites the reader to accept the mere fact that a person is whatever he is. It is curious that the poem uses the highly rare second person perspective which makes the reader a participant in the action of the poem. This device evokes a dramatic effect in the poem while at the same time accusing the reader of engaging in the human campaign of definition but as a subject rather than as an actor. It lends a preachy style to the poem as if the narrator is speaking directly to the reader. The poem is distinct from Carter's earlier poems in that it does not incorporate many of his Nature imagery except to highlight in metaphoric form the inspiration for this contemplation of identity: ' the root turning back at a rock questioning that which it feeds". This image is an apt depiction of the relationship of the newly independent colonies to the metropole in their attempt to find themselves in the world. The colony that fed the mother country with raw material now questions it seeking for some statement of identity and criticising imposed self-conceptions. At first a cryptic poem "Proem" is now one of my favourite postcolonial deconstructionist anthems. True to the militant independence of a Martin Carter. P.A.

Symbolically they are not very similar.

The storming of the Bastille and the consequent treatment of political prisoners held within (some were released, others were executed) marked a new phase in the French revolution. The American fourth of July similarly marks a new phase in the the American revolution, but for very different reasons, as being the date entered on a decleration of independence by 13 of Britain's colonies in North America.

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.