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Bastille Day
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Bas·tille Day  (b-stl)
n.
July 14, observed in France in commemoration of the storming of the Paris Bastille in 1789, a citizens' victory at the outset of the French Revolution.
Bastille Day
n
(in France) an annual holiday on July 14, commemorating the fall of the Bastille
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Noun1.Bastille Day - a legal holiday in France celebrating the storming of the Paris bastille in 1789Bastille Day - a legal holiday in France celebrating the storming of the Paris bastille in 1789
14 July
legal holiday, national holiday, public holiday - authorized by law and limiting work or official business
July - the month following June and preceding August
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But it would have seemed wholly appropriate that ten days before his death he should have been in Paris as President Chirac's guest for the Quatorze Juillet celebrations, and that the continuity and strength of Franco Moroccan relations should have been commemorated this year in a series of exhibitions throughout France including a full scale mock up of the Bab Mansour at Meknes in Paris itself.
KING HASSAN II OF MOROCCO by Ramsay, Allan / Contemporary Review
 
 
 
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