What is Bastille Day?
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Bastille Day - French National Holiday
www.atkielski.com/inlink.php?
/PhotoGallery/Paris/General/BastilleRemainsSmall.html
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14 July -- A National Holiday in France
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obtained bastille
www.HightowerTrail
.com/BASTIL.HTM
An Editorial which contends citizens have not yet obtained the economic justice for which
American, French, Russian, and other revolutionaries fought.
Remains of the Bastille
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www.constitution
.org/fr/fr_drm.htm
info-france-usa.org/atoz/14july.asp
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www.progress.org/archive/fold46.htm
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Includes French
and English words, plus downloadable audio.
marseillaise stormed
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Provides information about this French symbol of the end
of the Monarchy and the beginning of the First Republic.
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french.about.com/library/weekly/aa071400.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastille_Day
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Bastille Day
A color photograph of what remains of the Bastille in Paris
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HightowerTrail.com/Bastil.htm
List of the 17 articles that were approved by the National Assembly of
France after the storming.
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Bastille Day
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La Marseillaise, 1972
www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/marseill.html
Features simple description of the holiday.
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Information on the storming, the national flag that ensued
from that, and subsequent history. Includes links to more information. Includes footnote on the writer
and his friendship and admiration of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington.
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Bastille Day definition
from Wikipedia
www.cstone.net/~bry-back/holidayfun/bastilleday.html
subsequent storming
Page by the French Embassy Press Office
giving overview of the storming of the Bastille.
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
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Reference
information including the definition, history, and a timeline of the French Revolution.
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Embassy of France
in the US - Bastille Day: July 14th
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Discusses the storming of the Bastille, the subsequent Revolution
, and the legacy of the Revolution.French National Anthem that was banned because of its revolutionary
association.
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