What is the significance of july 14 1789

The commemoration of July 14 was abandoned in subsequent years. A Deputy for the Seine Department, Benjamin Raspail, moved that July 14 be named the national holiday of the Republic, and Parliament passed an act to that effect on July 6, Every commune or locality in France held its own celebration, starting with a torchlight parade on the evening of the 13th. The next morning, church bells or gun salutes announced the military parade, which is followed by a luncheon, spectacles and games, with dancing and fireworks ending the day.

Coming after the austerity of the war, the 14th of July was the occasion of a great victory celebration. Similarly, July 14, was preceded by three days of civic rejoicing. Today, the festivities of July 14 are as popular as ever. It is precisely this carefully maintained ambiguity in Quatorze Juillet which has enabled its endurance as France's National Day: it can mean many things to many people. The French can project their own understanding of what is being celebrated.

Or they can simply enjoy a day off and admire the fireworks with their friends and family, oblivious to the complex story behind July Romain Fathi is a senior lecturer in history at Flinders University. This piece first appeared on The Conversation. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work.

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That hunt for gunpowder— not the hope of freeing prisoners—was the main reason for the storming of the Bastille. The events that followed—the freeing of the few prisoners that remained at the Bastille, but also a deadly battle and the brutal beheading of the prison governor and his officers—were more of a side effect of chaotic uprising, rather than its intent.

The king arrived in Paris days later, Edelstein says, to declare his support of the revolution and don the tricolor cockade. Feudalism was abolished that August.