Aujourd'hui est jour de bastille en France. C’est le jour le Français célèbrent donner l'assaut à de la bastille en 1789. Le premier jour de bastille était un événement énorme de régal et de fonctionnaire pour célébrer le soulèvement de la monarchie constitutionnelle de courte durée en France et quelles personnes ont considéré la conclusion heureuse de la révolution française. L'événement a eu lieu sur le Champ de Mars, alors en dehors de Paris mais maintenant de l'emplacement de Tour Eiffel. L'endroit avait été transformé volontairement par la population de Paris dans ce qui a été rappelé comme brouettes de Journée des brouettes.
Today is Bastille Day in France. It is the day the French celebrate the storming of the Bastille in 1789. The first Bastille Day was a huge feast and official event to celebrate the uprising of the short-lived constitutional monarchy in France and what people considered the happy conclusion of the French Revolution.
The event took place on the Champ de Mars, at the time outside of Paris but now the site of the Eiffel Tower. The place had been transformed voluntarily by the population of Paris in what was recalled as the Wheelbarrow Day.
J'espère que vous avez un jour merveilleux, écoutez la La Marseillaise, qui est vraiment une chanson tout à fait sanglante, et pense à toutes les choses françaises que vous aimez !
I hope you have a wonderful day, listen to La Marseillaise, which is really a quite gory song, and think of all of the French things you love!
So relieved that I could still read this.
ReplyDeleteSure will. Happy 14th Meg, xv.
ReplyDeleteViva La France!!
ReplyDeleteLovely,
Leslie
I like the last image very much. Have a happy 14th.
ReplyDeleteKathleen... It is a birthday card I designed.
ReplyDeleteMerci beaucoup de partager avec nous une partie de l'histoire derrière Bastille Day. Comme toujours, vous avez un excellent blog. Merci.
ReplyDeleteI "celebrated" the Freedom Fry period of the Iraq War by having French wine and cheese parties and eating in every French cafe and bistro I could find (very sparsely filled in those days). I celebrate freedom everywhere. Today it will be in French. Loved your artwork.
ReplyDeleteThink I'll go look up the Marseillaise scene in "Casablanca" right now. Happy Bastille Day.
ReplyDeleteI love that scene from Casablanca.
ReplyDeleteI must echo Mrs. Blandings' sentiment, phew!
ReplyDeleteThough I must confess I was lost with the third sentence there, but happily I picked it back up after the photo!
Thanks for the reminder!
- Meg
I had a delicious crepe on Bastille Day :) Hope you had a good one!
ReplyDeleteAnne
p.s. mark your calendar - water ballet is the last weekend of july and first weekend of august this year!!! www.fluidmovement.org