Today (7/14) is the French holiday Bastille Day and it marks the storming of a Paris stronghold 233 years ago. Since then, the day has grown to celebrate France’s independence, culture ...

By Constant Méheut Reporting from Paris Bastille Day in France has long been synonymous with grand fireworks displays over towns and villages, as dancing crowds celebrate their nation’s ...

PARIS (AP) — France celebrated its national holiday Friday with whizzing warplanes and a grand Bastille Day parade in Paris — and with more than 100,000 police deployed around the country to ...

Declared a national holiday in 1880, Bastille Day honors the event that shaped present day France. Today, Francophone outposts around the world celebrate the holiday, touting French culture and ...

Liberty. Equality. Fraternity. That’s the meaning of Bastille Day, according to Daout Celestin, one of the organizers of the annual Bastille Day Celebration in Piermont. The village of Piermont ...