Do you think they are celebrating Bastille Day in Paris today?
The title Bastille Day is not common in France. They call it la Fête Nationale, or the National Holiday, or La fête du 14-juillet, July 14th. Bastille Day is what it is commonly called in English.
Bastille was not an ordinary prison and it wasn’t the worst prison in France either. One imagines that it would be a huge place holding hundreds or even thousands of prisoners. Actually it could hold only 50 prisoners at a time. When it was stormed on July 14, 1789, there were only six or seven criminals in the prison.
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