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| | Bastille Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Shortly after the storming of the Bastille, on 26 August, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was proclaimed. | | | The law was made official on 6 July 1880, and the Ministry of the Interior recommended to the prefects that the day should be "celebrated with all the brilliance that the local resources allow". | | | The storming of the Bastille was more important as a rallying point and symbolic act of rebellion than a practical act of defiance. |
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| | BASTILLE DAY -- The Bastille is located in Paris -- It was being used as a prison when the strongly-fortified high ... |
| | This display of national unity was deliberately organized on the first anniversary of the fall of the Bastille, the first revolutionary act by the people against the arbitrary power of the royalty, an act that stamps France as one of the cradles of liberty. | | | On 20 June, 1789, the deputies of the Third Estate took the oath of the Jeu de Paume "to not separate until the Constitution had been established." The Deputies opposition was echoed by public opinion. | | | Bastille Day, 14 July, was officially proclaimed the national holiday in 1880 and the motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" was restored in 1848. |
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| | Bastille Day - French National Holiday |
| | Bastille Day was declared the French national holiday on 6 July 1880, on Benjamin Raspail's recommendation, when the new Republic was firmly entrenched. | | | As in the US, where the signing of the Declaration of Independence signaled the start of the American Revolution, in France the storming of the Bastille began the Great Revolution. | | | Although the Bastille only held seven prisoners at the time of its capture, the storming of the prison was a symbol of liberty and the fight against oppression for all French citizens; like the Tricolore flag, it symbolized the Republic's three ideals: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity for all French citizens. |
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| | Bastille Day |
| | The American economist Henry George, who promoted the same single tax idea 100 years later, wrote in Progress and Poverty, that we honor Liberty in name and in form, but we have not fully trusted her. | | | It is not enough to be equal before the law. | | | But while many countries are now democracies, we have not obtained the economic justice that the American, French, Russian and other revolutionaries fought for. |
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| | Seattle Bastille Day 2005 |
| | Successive Presidents of the Fifth Republic have modified the day's events slightly. | | | Bastille Day is organized by the Consular Agency of France in Seattle in partnership with the French-American Chamber of Commerce Pacific Northwest Pacific, the Alliance Française, the Seattle-Nantes Sister City Association, the French-American Schools (French-Immersion School of Washington, French American School of Puget Sound) and the Mercer Island-Thonon Les Bains Sister City Association. | | | This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Seattle-Nantes sister city association and the 100th anniversary of the death of Jules Verne. |
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| | History of the Bastille |
| | The storming, and subsequent take over of the Bastille, ushered in the beginning of the French Revolution. | | | Prisoners were arrested by a secret warrant issued by the King called a lettres-de-cachet. | | | The Governor of the Bastille, De Launay, had his head cut off and paraded around the streets of Paris on a pike. |
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| | Allrecipes Advice Mais, Oui! Have a Magnifique Bastille Day! |
| | Two days after the storming of the Bastille, on July 16th, 1789, the King officially recognized the tricolor flag (the colors blue, white and red symbolizing liberty, equality and fraternity) and the success of the Revolution that it stood for. | | | In France, the 14th of July is a national holiday known as Bastille Day, a day when the French people celebrate the political power won by ordinary citizens who overtook the Bastille prison in 1789. | | | For French citizens, Bastille Day is a festive time to appreciate liberty, democracy and the struggle against all forms of oppression. |
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| | IMAO: Happy Bastille Day |
| | Ironically, today is also the day Michael Moore commemorates his washboard abs. | | | This marks a day when the French decided to confront tyranny and reached down deep and fought for what they believed in. | | | Michael Moore is a lot like France in that it’s been ages since he’s been able to find his penis. |
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| | French Culture Bastille Day 2002 |
| | Washington, DC July 14: Bastille Day in Washington | | | New York, NY July 12: Bastille Day Ball | | | This Festival is FREE, open to the public and dedicated to promoting democratic values as well as the French heritage and culture. |
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| | Bastille Day - A Brief History and Links for this French National Holiday |
| | You're at the library and run across a county history... | | | This march on the Bastille, a symbol of the hypocrisy and corruption of France's political system, marked the beginning of the French Revolution. | | | Bastille Day was proclaimed a French national holiday in 1880 and in 1848 the motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" was reinstated. |
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| | J's Theater: Bastille Day |
| | Their desire for greater political power and a new conception of government and society, guided in great part by the writings of Rousseau and other philosophes, led to the revolutionary declaration in early 1789 by members of the Third Estate of popular sovereignty, better known as the Tennis Court Oath, | | | Bastille Day actually was the day (July 14, 1789) that the sans-culottes stormed the notorious Paris prison, La Bastille, the hulking embodiment of the ancien régime and the Bourbons, thus accelerating the social and political revolt that had begun several years before among aristocrats and figures high in the church hierarchy. | | | This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar. |
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| | Bastille - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Place de la Bastille, with the July Column in the center, and the Opéra Bastille on the right. | | | At this point, the jail was nearly empty, with only seven inmates: four counterfeiters, two madmen, and a young aristocrat who had displeased his father. | | | This page was last modified 06:29, 16 March 2006. |
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| | Bastille Day: French Independence Day |
| | French Independence Day is Bastille Day, July 14. | | | This was the real reason for the storming of the Bastille. | | | At one time, it had a sizable number of political prisoners, including the great writer Voltaire, who were there for no other reason than that they had spoken out against the government. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Bastille |
| | Citizens of every class and profession, if for any reason deemed obnoxious to the royal court, were arrested by secret warrants called lettres-de-cachet and imprisoned indefinitely in the Bastille without accusation or trial. | | | During the 17th and 18th centuries, the Bastille was used primarily for housing political prisoners. | | | Bastille Day is the national holiday in France, celebrated annually on July 14. |
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| | NOBLE Web: Bastille Day |
| | Bastille Day -- From the government of France | | | On July 14, 1789, the people of Paris rose up and marched on the Bastille, a state prison that symbolized the absolutism of the French monarchy. | | | Declaration of the Rights of Man, 1789 -- English translation from the Avalon Project, Yale University |
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| | What Is Bastille Day |
| | It is very much like Independence Day in the United States because it is a celebration of the beginning of a new form of government. | | | Bastille Day is a National holiday in France. | | | Just as the people in the United States celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence as the beginning of the American Revolution, so the people in France celebrate the storming of the Bastille as the beginning of the French Revolution. |
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| | France Fetes Bastille Day |
| | Amid the political chaos, the people of Paris rose up in protest and marched on the Bastille, a state prison that symbolized the absolutism of the Ancien Régime. | | | The storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, became a symbol of the new Republic. | | | Amid the political chaos, the people of Paris rose up in protest and marched on the Bastille, a state prison that symbolized the absolutism of the Ancien Régime |
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| | Bastille Day (July 14, 1997) |
| | Could it be that Bastille Day, which occurred a mere 13 years after the signing of our Declaration of Independence, foreshadowed other revolutions? | | | A great man once asked what is Bastille Day. | | | We were so amused with it that we republished it (with a new preface) in the first issue of the fall semester. |
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| | Bastille Day |
| | Mark arranged his visit to also be here on Bastille Day, and in fact he leaves tomorrow night. | | | Today we did some grocery shopping during the three hours the store was open, then went snorkeling over the reef, and this evening we'll socialize with other boaters in the anchorage. | | | But this year, they've moved it to the three weeks AFTER Bastille Day, apparently because Jacques Chirac is visiting next week. |
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| | Bastille Day |
| | This will help you with the rest of this WebQuest. | | | Australia has Australia Day and France has Bastille Day. | | | The winner takes on the role of the Bastille Day Sympathiser - though both roles require as much work! |
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| | Matthew Yglesias: Bastille Day |
| | Napoleon was not an inevitable consequence of the Storming of the Bastille. | | | For all citizens of France, the storming of the Bastille came to symbolize liberty, democracy in the struggle against oppression. | | | I am not American, I am a Filipino resident of the US who holds dual Spanish nationality as well. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Today's issues Bastille Day |
| | Today is France's national day, known to the Brits as Bastille Day, although the French call it the 14th of July. | | | It should be a great day to celebrate: the moment when the people of Paris stormed the Bastille prison, symbolically putting an end to the absolutism of Louis XVI's monarchy. | | | Talking of which: in 2000, the French held street picnics all over the country to celebrate the introduction of the metric system 200 years before - considered one of the great achievements of the French revolution. |
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| | BBC NEWS World Europe French malaise mars Bastille Day |
| | Losing the 2012 Olympic Games to London was the final straw, with the Paris mayor still insisting that Britain cheated by allowing Prime Minister Tony Blair to lobby the IOC. | | | Security was tight throughout the day, with 5,000 French police deployed to guard the military march-past. | | | Even amid the pomp and ceremony of Bastille Day, Mr Chirac has presided for 10 years over a nation that now feels increasingly insecure: unsure of its place in the world, fearful of globalisation and worried about harsh competition from outside, whether from India, China or eastern Europe. |
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| | ABC News: Vive La Bastille Day |
| | The morning of July 14, a grand military parade fills the Champs-Elysées, the wide boulevard crowned by the famous Arc de Triomphe. | | | On Bastille Day, the French host a party that runs the length of the Champs-Elysées to the Arc de Triomphe. | | | In Paris, Bastille Day is one big, rollicking party, beginning the night before at the city square called place de la Bastille. |
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| | ESP :: Events :: Bastille Day |
| | This is the only time evening tours will be offered this season. | | | Eastern State Penitentiary’s annual Bastille Day celebration has become one of Philadelphia’s most popular summertime events, attracting thousands of visitors each year into the massive shadow of the penitentiary wall. | | | This year’s event will culminate on Saturday, July 16th at 5:30 PM when dozens of French revolutionaries, armed with muskets and cannon, and singing "La Marseilles," storm the grim walls of "the Bastille" (Eastern State Penitentiary) and drag Marie Antoinette to a real, functioning guillotine, built for the occasion. |
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| | Technorati Tag: bastille day |
| | Tonight it's Jenna's 358 Days to Bastille Day / Birthday party and my keychain Breathalyzer hasn't arrived yet. | | | Become a member to save searches in a Watchlist. | | | Posts tagged Bastille Day per day for the last 30 days. |
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| | eBay - bastille day, Disneyana, Games items on eBay.com |
| | The Day The Bastille Fell: End Of The French Monarchy | | | Enamel on Copper Bastille Day Pin - Vive La France! | | | WWI Stereo- British Troops parade for Bastille Day |
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| | Bastille Day |
| | The majority of bars restaurants and clubs hold festivities of their own that carry on through the night. | | | President Chirac will lead the celebrations on the day itself when the focal point will be the spectacular parade on the Champs Elysees, starting at L’Arc de Triomphe and culminating in a military fly-past. | | | Pairs is the only place to be on the 14th July when the whole city takes to the streets to celebrate the 216th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille. |
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| | BBC NEWS Europe Chirac warning for Bastille Day |
| | President Jacques Chirac has warned France that no country is safe from terrorism, amid tight security during the traditional Bastille Day events. | | | About 5,000 police were deployed for this year's celebrations in Paris, which featured a military contingent from Brazil. | | | Mr Chirac stood in an open jeep at the Champs Elysees parade commemorating the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789 - the start of the French revolution. |
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| | BASTILLE DAY LOS ANGELES . JULY 17 2005 . HOME |
| | Supported by the French Consulate in Los Angeles, Bastille Day LA is a great yearly 'rendez-vous' for all Angelenos and visitors! | | | Many people attended Bastille Day 2003 and 2004, making this annual celebration one of the most well-attended community festivals in Los Angeles. | | | The days of peace belong to the doves fluttering above our heads just like the serene nights belong to the distant stars in the heavens blinking from millions of light-years away. |
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| | Battlestar Galactica (2003): Bastille Day - TV.com |
| | Bastile Day is the English name for the Fête de la Fédération the celebration that commemorated the beginning of the French Revolution. | | | This is Connor Widdows' (Boxey) only appearance on the show this season. | | | The French National Holiday taking place on July 14. |
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| | Bastille Day - SilverSeek.com |
| | But perhaps it is fate that today is Bastille Day, the beginning of the French Revolution that took the head of the French King and symbolically the heads of every other King in | | | Our modern political world is built on the French Revolution, but our financial one is built on a lesser-known event that happened in the same nation shortly before: the Mississippi Scheme. | | | They saw silver for what it was: wealth worth far more than the paper promises of government; real wealth unencumbered by the debts of governments. |
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| | Bastille Day |
| | On 14 July, France celebrates its national holiday in commemoration of the storming of the Bastille prison, which took place in 1789 and marked the beginning of the French Revolution. | | | Learn all about Bastille Day - in French or English - and listen to the Marseillaise. | | | What English speakers call Bastille Day the French call le 14 juillet. |
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| | Bastille Day |
| | The Bastille Day is organized by Le Comité Tricolore which is a philanthropic | | | We gladly accept donations which are Tax Deductible. | | | Tickets will be available at the gate of the embassy for $80 |
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| | The day starts out with an amazing show of force: I have never seen so many armaments in one place at the same time before. | | | It's hard to believe that I didn't see the entire french armed forces. | | | There are so many people the crowd seems to sway, rather than dance, save for a hole here and there where there's a pocket of belligerence or bawdiness. |
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| | Barbette |
| | We do not accept same day reservations after 5pm. | | | We take reservations; please keep in mind that on busy nights we will hold your table for only 15 minutes past your reservation time. | | | If you are interested in showing work, send us non-returnable samples of your work. |
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| | Space weather forecasters had been predicting for days that an intense flare might erupt from the large sunspot group 9077, and today one did. | | | For the next few days, however, any additional eruptions are likely to be Earth-directed. | | | Solar rotation will carry the sunspot group toward the Sun's western limb by late next week. |
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