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Title: Bastille Day


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Bastille Day
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BASTILLE DAY/JULY 14 2002FRANCE WELCOMES WEST
POINT MILITARY ACADEMY
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British troops to lead Bastille Day parade
  • British soldiers are to lead 4,000 troops who
    will march along the Champs-Elysées on France's
    Bastille Day in a tribute to the entente cordiale
    colonial-era agreement signed between Paris and
    London a century ago. 
  • The entente cordiale would be the theme of the
    military parade 305 military vehicles and a
    fly-over finale by French and British aerobatic
    air force planes.  
  • One hundred and two soldiers from Queen Elizabeth
    II's Grenadier Guards - wearing their ceremonial
    red tunics and high black headdress - followed by
    Foreign Legionnaires and other French army, navy
    and air force units.  
  • A Royal Marine band, and riders from the Royal
    Horse Artillery troop and the Household Cavalry
    Mounted Regiment.  

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An American view by Zuka
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On the Champs Elysées in 1801
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What was La Bastille?
  • A fortress and prison
  • Etymology - Bastille
  • Bastille is an alternate spelling of bastide
    fortification. 
  • Bastide comes from the Provençal word bastida
    built.
  • There is also a verb embastiller to establish
    troops in a prison.

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Why attack La Bastille?
  • It was a symbol.
  • A symbol of the hypocrisy and corruption of the
    aristocratic government.
  • The government was controlled mainly by the
    nobility and the clergy.

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The Queen
  • In an effort to further harm her reputation, the
    false story was circulated that, upon hearing
    that the poor of France were unable to purchase
    even mouldy bread, she said "Let them eat cake!",
    which quickly became a famous non quotation. The
    phrase is in full "S'ils n'ont pas de pain,
    qu'ils mangent de la brioche." and was invented
    or quoted by Rousseau, some years before Marie
    Antoinette came to power.

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The Royal Family
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The French Revolution
  • Parliament wanted the king to share his absolute
    powers with an oligarchic parliament.
  • Priests and other low-level religious figures
    wanted more money.
  • Nobles also wanted to share some of the king's
    power.
  • The middle class wanted the right to own land and
    to vote.
  • The lower class were hostile toward everyone and
    farmers were angry about titles and feudal
    rights.
  • Some historians claim that the revolutionaries
    were opposed to Catholicism more than to the king
    or the upper classes.

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The Storming of La Bastille
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La guillotine
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Marianne
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Bleu, Blanc, Rouge
  • Emblem of the 5th Republic
  • White
  • King
  • Blue and red
  • Paris

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The French National Anthem
  • La Marseillaise was written in 1792 by
    Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle and declared the
    French national anthem in 1795.
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