| Garde de Paris | 13 Jul 2014 3:31 p.m. PST |
I can't find anyone here in Pairs, TX, who knows what I am talking about! Alamo – yes. San Jacinto – yes. ACW – yes. Bastille Day – who is he? I remember, for those who care. Garde de Paris (bonjour, vous toutes!) |
| dBerczerk | 13 Jul 2014 3:42 p.m. PST |
I plan to visit the French Embassy tomorrow. They always serve such excellent Champagne. |
| Garde de Paris | 13 Jul 2014 3:43 p.m. PST |
I envy you. I'll just have to settle for Shiner Bock, Texas beer! GdeP |
| 14Bore | 13 Jul 2014 4:12 p.m. PST |
I plan to have a bottle of French wine, not sure which one, and maybe French Toast for breakfast. |
| zippyfusenet | 13 Jul 2014 4:55 p.m. PST |
In honor of the holiday, I shall liberate my own personal Marquis de Sade. You may want to postpone any calls or visits until Tuesday. YouTube link |
| Zargon | 13 Jul 2014 4:56 p.m. PST |
And some cake for all the hoi polloi too :) |
| Tom Collins | 13 Jul 2014 5:11 p.m. PST |
No one in Paris,IL. either. A good day to drive by the local Bastille for a history lesson and to thank the Swiss Guards on their career choice. Will be at the local Jacobin Club to sing La Marseillaise & drink Brandy. GO Robespierre! |
| jeffreyw3 | 13 Jul 2014 5:35 p.m. PST |
What would Bastille Day be without Freedom Fries in Texas? :-) |
| spontoon | 13 Jul 2014 5:59 p.m. PST |
My lady friend's birthday! Nice of France to hold a parade for her! |
| MadDrMark | 13 Jul 2014 6:30 p.m. PST |
Here in Philadelphia, we celebrate the occasion with a campy pageant at a historic prison. link Ca Ira! |
| Brian Smaller | 13 Jul 2014 9:47 p.m. PST |
Only the French could have a national day celebrating the storming of a prison and the releasing of a few thieves :) Anyway – have a good one if it is a day off for you. |
| Tom Collins | 14 Jul 2014 2:14 a.m. PST |
An excellent national day to celebrate liberty forever.
The Bastille was the main armory in Paris, the objective were the muskets & powder stored there. It became the key moment in the Revolution when the French National Guard arrived and went over to the people and joined the assault on The Bastille. The assault only released seven 1% royal guests, one of whom had a baby grand piano in his cell. The 1% royal guests had a choice of two different French wines with their meals. The red coated Swiss mercs got what they deserved for their employment as 1% thugs. Looking forward celebrating a great day in history.
Viva La Revolution. |
| Marcel1809 | 14 Jul 2014 5:21 a.m. PST |
some of the prisoners in the Bastille were actually mental "patients" and they were interned somewhere else (so locked up) almost the next day.The Swiss present at the bastille (32 I believe) were from a Swiss line regiment and most returned to their regiment after the surrender without harm. (the massacre of the Swiss guard occured later during the storming of the Tuileries palace in august 1792) The governor of the bastille De launey (not sure of the spelling) however was murdred in the streets of Paris… In 1789 this day was seen as just one incident in a year of turmoil, only in the late 19th century under influence of romantic historians it became the "great symbolic event" By the way for our Anglo Saxon friend: nobody in France calls it Bastille day (that is an English custom) they simply refer to it as le quatorze juillet (fourtheenth july) |
| T Andrews | 14 Jul 2014 8:57 a.m. PST |
I began to celebrate by watching "Marat/Sade" today- the day of the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat. Excellent play examining freedom, oppression, individual rights and responsibilities, state terror and personal revenge. |
| zippyfusenet | 14 Jul 2014 11:27 a.m. PST |
It was the summer of 1967, and the voice of an angel called me to the barricades: YouTube link |
| Kevin in Albuquerque | 14 Jul 2014 11:47 a.m. PST |
Garde de …. You being in TX, you should have heard at least some of the silliness from NM to your west. If it's not Spanish, or Latin American, or related to futbol, fugettaboutit. I wished a student in the lab I work in a happy Bastille day this morning, and the returned blank look was such that I was inspired to continue … "Look it up, and consider this my contribution to your education!" |
| Happy Little Trees | 14 Jul 2014 2:25 p.m. PST |
I can never remember who to root for… |
| von Winterfeldt | 14 Jul 2014 10:15 p.m. PST |
The Swiss defending along with "Veterans" were from the regiment Salis, they did wear the sarrau (a kind of smock) and not their red uniform, by that the vainqueurs de la Bastille did thing they were a penal unit and excaped almost unscathed while the Veterans in their dark blue uniforms got more abuse.
De Launy – in case I remember correctly was lynched and hanged at a street latern |
