Thursday, July 14, 2005
Happy Bastille Day!
Today is the French day of independence. Our French intern at work (and my own experience in Paris on the 13th - 14th of July) is that the locals party with wine and fireworks on the 13th of July, sleep in on the 14th and then go to the military parades in the afternoon.
Laurent says that there isn't really any traditional food or ceremonies - other than the above.
The storming of the Bastille was, largely, a symbolic gesture by the revolutionaries in Paris. There were only a handful of prisoners in the prison at the time (most had been moved out)- one of which being the Marquis de Sade - but it was the destroying of the symbol of the establishment that they focused on, then and now.
Laurent says that there isn't really any traditional food or ceremonies - other than the above.
The storming of the Bastille was, largely, a symbolic gesture by the revolutionaries in Paris. There were only a handful of prisoners in the prison at the time (most had been moved out)- one of which being the Marquis de Sade - but it was the destroying of the symbol of the establishment that they focused on, then and now.
# posted by PSUgirl @ 2:12 PM 
