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Happy Bastille Day! When you can’t celebrate at your favorite place! You make your own! Croque Madam! #bastilleday #bastilleday🇫🇷 #bastilleday2020 #croquemadame #rosemaryfries #athometogether #quarantine (at Clanton, Alabama) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCpPGSYA7cy/?igshid=b5v0qki7m1pm

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In honor of #BastilleDay: a few beautiful firework photographs taken in France by artist @damionberger Wishing our French friends a safe Fête Nationale! 💥🇫🇷💥 #contemporaryart #photography #fireworks #bastilleday2020 #lafêtenationale #france #france🇫🇷 https://www.instagram.com/p/CCosTe_nLQP/?igshid=iboha84nrdxv

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14 July 1789

On 14 July 1789, civilians and mutineers of the French Guards stormed the Bastille prison fortress, a symbol of royal authority and abuse of power located in central Paris, beginning the French Revolution. 

On that fateful day, only seven inmates were being confined within its walls. The news of the successful siege spread throughout France. 

Many of the nobility began to flee the country while rural areas saw the burning of a plethora of deeds and châteaux. People began to establish their own municipalities and militias with complete disregard for the monarchy. 

Despite calls for the fortress to be preserved as a monument to French liberation or perhaps to be utilized for alternative purposes, Pierre-François Palloy commenced immediately with its demolition. Within five months (c. 1790), the clock portraying chained prisoners was melted down, and the four statues of the fortress were broken up. 

In that same year, Major General Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette, gave the heavy wrought-iron key to the Bastille to his Masonic Brother, the then-president of the United States, General George Washington, who displayed it prominently at several government facilities and events in New York City and in Philadelphia through 1797. The Bastille key remains at Mount Vernon. 

I visited Paris in late November 2011 ("Lafayette, I have arrived.") as part of a Wabash College immersion course on French historical memory, or what Pierre Nora called Les Lieux de Mémoire ("The Realms of Memory", his three-volume work). We stayed at the now-closed Hôtel Campanile Paris Bastille near the Chemin Vert Paris Métro station and the Place de La Bastille. Of course the Bastille itself was centuries gone by the time I was there. Instead, I visited the Château de Vincennes, where I happened upon the former cell of the Marquis de Sade.

Zhou Enlai, longtime premier of the People's Republic of China, is said to have responded "It is too soon to say," when asked what the results were of this revolution; he may actually have been asked about the French protests of May 1968 against General de Gaulle rather than the French Revolution of 1789. The French Revolution's important Enlightenment tenets of "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity" are not shared in the Chinese unitary Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic, and should ever remain a part of the secular constitutional republic that is the United States of America.

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(The painting is Storming of The Bastile by Jean-Pierre Houël)

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Happy Bastille Day! #bastilleday2020 (at Paris, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCn3BI9qtZk/?igshid=1ci85d3yuw57