Bastille Day

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Bastille Day
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BASTILLE DAY/JULY 14 2002FRANCE WELCOMES WEST
POINT MILITARY ACADEMY
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British troops to lead Bastille Day parade

• British soldiers are to lead 4,000 troops who
  will march along the Champs-Elysées on France's
  Bastille Day in a tribute to the entente cordiale
  colonial-era agreement signed between Paris and
  London a century ago. 
• The entente cordiale would be the theme of the
  military parade 305 military vehicles and a
  fly-over finale by French and British aerobatic
  air force planes.  
• One hundred and two soldiers from Queen Elizabeth
  II's Grenadier Guards - wearing their ceremonial
  red tunics and high black headdress - followed by
  Foreign Legionnaires and other French army, navy
  and air force units.  
• A Royal Marine band, and riders from the Royal
  Horse Artillery troop and the Household Cavalry
  Mounted Regiment.  

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An American view by Zuka
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On the Champs Elysées in 1801
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What was La Bastille?

• A fortress and prison

• Etymology - Bastille
• Bastille is an alternate spelling of bastide
  fortification. 
• Bastide comes from the Provençal word bastida
  built.
• There is also a verb embastiller to establish
  troops in a prison.

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Why attack La Bastille?

• It was a symbol.

• A symbol of the hypocrisy and corruption of the
  aristocratic government.

• The government was controlled mainly by the
  nobility and the clergy.

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The Queen

• In an effort to further harm her reputation, the
  false story was circulated that, upon hearing
  that the poor of France were unable to purchase
  even mouldy bread, she said "Let them eat cake!",
  which quickly became a famous non quotation. The
  phrase is in full "S'ils n'ont pas de pain,
  qu'ils mangent de la brioche." and was invented
  or quoted by Rousseau, some years before Marie
  Antoinette came to power.

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The Royal Family
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The French Revolution

• Parliament wanted the king to share his absolute
  powers with an oligarchic parliament.
• Priests and other low-level religious figures
  wanted more money.
• Nobles also wanted to share some of the king's
  power.
• The middle class wanted the right to own land and
  to vote.
• The lower class were hostile toward everyone and
  farmers were angry about titles and feudal
  rights.
• Some historians claim that the revolutionaries
  were opposed to Catholicism more than to the king
  or the upper classes.

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The Storming of La Bastille
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La guillotine
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Marianne
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Bleu, Blanc, Rouge

• Emblem of the 5th Republic
• White
• King
• Blue and red
• Paris

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The French National Anthem

• La Marseillaise was written in 1792 by
  Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle and declared the
  French national anthem in 1795.