Quirkee Voices World-Colored Glasses It's Not Bastille Day! | It's Not Bastille Day! |
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| Written by Ed Lamaze | |
| Thursday, 10 July 2008 | |
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 Third, and I feel this one is pretty significant, Bastille day is on the 14th of July not the 10th. It's just a fact. Check a calendar. Look it up. Write it down. Commit the date to memory. Why, you ask, does there seem to be such confusion over the actual observance of Bastille Day? And why do I even care that you care? The 14th is truly a great day with much to celebrate, especially if you're French or in France. But the 10th is an even greater day and worthy of greater celebrations. The 10th of July may quite possibly be the best day ever! My dear mother never could get it strait. You see, my birthday is on the 10th of July. Today. July 10th. Not the 14th. That is Bastille Day. Every year I would wake in anticipation on the morning of the 10th expecting cake, ice cream and presents only to find a big pile of notta. Then the 14th rolls around and--SURPRISE!! Year after year I would remind my mother that my birthday was on the 10th that Bastille Day is on the 14th. I would disappointedly remind her that my birthday had passed and she forgot it once again. Year after year she would respond, "Really, I thought Bastille Day was on the 10th." "Mom, why do you even care when Bastille Day is. You're not French--you're Texan!" Today is July the 10th, my birthday, and in the words of my good buddy, Sponge Bob, quite possibly the best day ever!
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This coming Monday, on July 14th not today, the 10th, the country of France will mark the 218th observance of Fete de la Federation or Bastille Day. The day commemorates the storming of the Bastille in France and symbolizes the uprising of the modern French nation. On that fateful day some two hundred odd years ago a group of close to 1000 insurgents overtook the Bastille, a prison, and freed all of the prisoners housed there. All seven of them. It was more of a symbolic insurgency. The French really don't like to quibble over numbers and whatnot.| < Prev | Next > |
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