What is Bastille Day?
Well there are two meanings to Bastille Day...
Ours which focuses on feeling festive and enjoying a free and fun activity-filled family day out, experiencing our joie de vivre and celebrate with us in the beautiful surroundings of Reading's Forbury Gardens... So if you are looking for another reason to don your red, white, and blue, get in on the festivities the weekend of the 14th of July to celebrate and or partake in Bastille Day Festival Reading!
The Historical Symbol which has to do with establishing of the French Republics and democracy in France.
Bastille Day is a French national holiday celebrating the storming of the Bastille prison in Paris on July 14th 1789. The Bastille was originally a stronghold built in 1382 to protect Paris from invasion. Cardinal Richlieu later turned it into a prison mostly for enemies of the king - famous inmates included Voltaire and Sade.
Although the storming and capture of the Bastille was in fact a symbolic gesture, as only seven prisoners were being held there at the time, it is generally considered to be the start of the French revolution the establishing of the French Republics and democracy in France.
Two days after the capture of The Bastille, orders were given to demolish it. The storming and capture of the Bastille is celebrated each year as Bastille Day on the 14th of July, which was also declared the French national holiday in 1860.
Ours which focuses on feeling festive and enjoying a free and fun activity-filled family day out, experiencing our joie de vivre and celebrate with us in the beautiful surroundings of Reading's Forbury Gardens... So if you are looking for another reason to don your red, white, and blue, get in on the festivities the weekend of the 14th of July to celebrate and or partake in Bastille Day Festival Reading!
The Historical Symbol which has to do with establishing of the French Republics and democracy in France.
Bastille Day is a French national holiday celebrating the storming of the Bastille prison in Paris on July 14th 1789. The Bastille was originally a stronghold built in 1382 to protect Paris from invasion. Cardinal Richlieu later turned it into a prison mostly for enemies of the king - famous inmates included Voltaire and Sade.
Although the storming and capture of the Bastille was in fact a symbolic gesture, as only seven prisoners were being held there at the time, it is generally considered to be the start of the French revolution the establishing of the French Republics and democracy in France.
Two days after the capture of The Bastille, orders were given to demolish it. The storming and capture of the Bastille is celebrated each year as Bastille Day on the 14th of July, which was also declared the French national holiday in 1860.
Eugène Delacroix, July 28: Liberty Leading the People, 1830 (Louvre, Paris)
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The painting on the left is the image most famously (and quite wrongly) associated with the Storming of the Bastille. However - and not many people know this - it actually commemorates the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled the French King Charles X and finally put an end to the French monarchy.
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