Bastille Day

In honor of le quartoze juillet, my favorite rendition of La Marseillaise, in a scene from Casablanca.

Bastille Day is the French national holiday, celebrated on 14 July each year. In France, it is called “F�te Nationale” (“National Celebration”), in official parlance, or more commonly “quatorze juillet” (“14 July”). It commemorates the 1790 F�te de la F�d�ration, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789; the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern French nation, and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which preceded the First Republic, during the French Revolution. link