On July 14, 1789, Parisian rebels stormed the Bastille prison. Its sudden fall kicked off the French revolution, an Earth-shaking event whose echoes we still feel today.

T he French national holiday of Bastille Day—celebrated each year on July 14, or le quatorze juillet—may spell fireworks and and a large military parade for some, but for most, it still marks ...

The celebration marks the day in 1789 when a crowd of ordinary people stormed the Bastille, a fortress that was used as a political prison. It was an early, pivotal moment in the French Revolution.

While it is a day of leisure across France, July 14 is also marked with a military parade along the Champs-Elysées. (Reuters: Gonzalo Fuentes)Symbols of the 1789 Revolution are still the subject ...

As most people know, July 14th commemorates the storming of the Bastille, the symbolic start of the French Revolution - but ...

The fact that so many writers had spent short periods in the Bastille created an aura of glamour around it, which was reinforced by the promotion of tales of its legendary inhabitants, like the Man in ...

Bastille Days, celebrated on July 14, is France's national day, known in French as le 14 juillet or Fête nationale française. It symbolises French patriotism and national identity, commemorating ...