November 3rd, 2040

NY Dispatch Day 121: Today is Fête nationale, commonly known as Bastille Day. People around the world celebrate an afternoon in 1789 when the French Revolution took a decisive turn. France had been reeling from the economic consequences of their support of the American Revolution, which inspired the masses to rise up in protest against their own monarch. The people of Paris feared that the king would attack them with the royal army or foreign mercenaries in the king’s service. The Bastille Saint...