Marie Antoinette didn’t say let them eat cake As the story goes, when Queen Marie Antoinette heard that the French peasants ... well known than the storming of the Bastille, are the events ...

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The annual Bastille Day parade - marking the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789, an event that helped spark the French Revolution - has been taking place in Paris. Here are some of the most ...

The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...

Bastille Day, a national holiday in France, commemorates the storming of the Bastille and the beginning of the French Revolution. Celebrated on July 14th each year, cities around the world join in ...

Armed with axes, hay thieves, knives and rifles, they storm the Bastille fortress. Join us for the crazy day in the streets of Paris, which has become a symbol of the French Republic.

One of the most celebrated dates on the French calendar is the14th of July — the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille in 1789, which signalled the beginning of the French Revolution.