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(note - yes, we should care about it. But I would go much further and not only talk about our first revolution but also the state of the USA presently)Why Americans should care about the French holiday
Jolie Lee, USA TODAY Network 7:44 a.m. EDT July 14, 2014
July 14th is often thought of as France's Independence Day.
More accurately, it's the French National Day -- called La Fête Nationale in French -- commemorating the day in 1789 when crowds stormed the Bastille, a fortress used as a prison in Paris. The event marks the beginning of the French Revolution.
So what does it have to do with the USA? A lot, actually.
The French royal treasury had essentially run out of money, largely due to the funding it provided to America during its revolution, as well as a French tax system that favored the aristocracy ...
More here: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/07/14/bastille-day-explainer-french-independence/12522863/
Unca Adverse
(29 posts)The Ladies of France fought valiantly with pike and cannon!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Women%27s_March_on_Versailles01.jpg
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Unca Adverse
(29 posts)American Revolutionary War (1775 - 1783)
French Revolution (1787 - 1799)
While the journalist Jolie Lee is correct in her assertion that the 'Enlightenment' caused revolutionary fervor,
the success of our own American bourgeois revolution was highly inspirational and encouraging to the French Jacobins.
Of particular note during this epoch was 'founding father' Thomas Paine, who fought in both revolutions . . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine
iandhr
(6,852 posts)was directly influenced by the declaration of independence as well
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_Man_and_of_the_Citizen
alterfurz
(2,475 posts)Across this great old nation
Tell me what you gonna do?
When there's one law for the rulers
and one law for the ruled
Which side are you on, boys?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on, boys?
Which side are you on?
malthaussen
(17,217 posts)Edith Piaf rules.
-- Mal
WCLinolVir
(951 posts)Love Edith.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)today would have been my parent's 70th wedding anniversary! My mom traveled by bus from Des Moines, Iowa to Jacksonville, Florida in 1944 where my dad was stationed in the Navy. They were married by a chaplain and partied on base until the wee hours of the morning. In all the anniversaries they celebrated afterward, they were always mindful of the Bastille struggle, and we usually put little French flags on cakes.
K&R
TBF
(32,111 posts)a toast to their memory!