{"id":5979,"date":"2021-07-13T19:21:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T13:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seminarsonly.com\/news\/?p=5979"},"modified":"2021-12-23T06:59:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T01:29:49","slug":"bastille-day-2021-history-significance-and-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seminarsonly.com\/news\/bastille-day-2021-history-significance-and-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Bastille Day 2021 : History, Significance and Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bastille Day :<\/span><\/h2>\n

Bastille Day is the common name given in English-speaking countries to the national day of France, which is celebrated on 14 July each year. In French, it is formally called F\u00eate nationale (pronounced [f\u025bt n\u0251sj\u0254nal]; “National Celebration”) and commonly and legally le 14 juillet (“the 14th of July”).<\/p>\n

The French National Day is the anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, a major event of the French Revolution,[4] as well as the F\u00eate de la F\u00e9d\u00e9ration that celebrated the unity of the French people on 14 July 1790. Celebrations are held throughout France. One that has been reported as “the oldest and largest military parade in Europe”[5] is held on 14 July on the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es in Paris in front of the President of the Republic, along with other French officials and foreign guests.<\/p>\n

History<\/span><\/h2>\n

In 1789, tensions rose in France between reformist and conservative factions as the country struggled to resolve an economic crisis. In May, the Estates General legislative assembly was revived, but members of the Third Estate broke ranks, declaring themselves to be the National Assembly of the country, and on 20 June, vowed to write a constitution for the kingdom.<\/p>\n

On 11 July Jacques Necker, the Finance Minister of Louis XVI, who was sympathetic to the Third Estate, was dismissed by the king, provoking an angry reaction among Parisians. Crowds formed, fearful of an attack by the royal army or by foreign regiments of mercenaries in the king’s service, and seeking to arm the general populace. Early on 14 July one crowd besieged the H\u00f4tel des Invalides for firearms, muskets, and canons, stored in its cellars<\/p>\n

That same day, another crowd stormed the Bastille, a fortress-prison in Paris that had historically held people jailed on the basis of lettres de cachet (literally “signet letters”), arbitrary royal indictments that could not be appealed and did not indicate the reason for the imprisonment, and was believed to hold a cache of ammunition and gunpowder. As it happened, at the time of the attack, the Bastille held only seven inmates, none of great political significance<\/p>\n

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