TODAY IN HISTORY: Don't Know Much About® Bastille Day!

Vive la France!

On July 14, 1789, an angry crowd stormed a state prison in Paris that stood as a symbol of royal tyranny. They surrounded the Bastille in order to seize the gunpowder stored inside. Troops fired on the rebels, but the people overpowered them. The bloody French Revolution had begun. The people of France have come to mark July 14 as their national holiday, the French version of the Fourth of July.

What else do you know about this celebration of "Liberty, Equality and Fraternity?"

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