HAPPY BASTILLE DAY !

[Marc Chevalier]

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The French Revolution. What a glorious, bloody mess it was.
217 years old today. "Let them eat (birthday) cake!"


Little-known fact: Soon after the Bastille fortress prison was stormed in 1789, it was ordered razed. Two hundred years BEFORE the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Bastille's demolition company had a clever idea: it broke up the fortress's stone blocks into very small chunks, then sold them off as souvenirs! lol

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[Lauren]

Yay! Happy Bastille Day.

Now everyone go read A Tale of Two Cities

 

[Marc Chevalier]

And try not to lose your head.

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[Sefton]

I don't have any Dickens to read at the moment, will watching Casablanca do?

Happy Bastille Day!

 

[jamespowers]

."Let them eat (birthday) cake!"

and cheese.

Happy Bastille Day. I hope it doesn't storm.

 

[magneto]

Ha!

Tale of Two Cities, yes! Me, I'm going to go read some Edmund Burke.

(Ok, okay, I did watch "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg" while eating dinner just now, but that was a complete fluke.)

By the way for the ladies there are some nice cardigan+skirt combos in that movie...and some arresting color combinations. :eusa_doh:

 

[Robert Conway]

Not so fun for us blue bloods!

Bah! Peasants!

 

[jpdesign]

I was in Paris for Bastille Day a few years ago, watched fireworks at the eiffel tower. I took this pic the night before.

 

[Dahlia]

A little late, but...

Happy Bastille Day!

magneto - J'adore Les Parapluies de Cherbourg!

 

["Doc" Devereux]

Not so fun for us blue bloods!

Bah! Peasants!

They're revolting, I tell you.

 

[jake_fink]

(Ok, okay, I did watch "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg" while eating dinner just now, but that was a complete fluke.)

One of my favourtie movies. It always makes me weep. :cry: