On this day in 1789 revolutionaries stormed and seized control of the Bastille. Professor Emma Spary, is a historian on Bastille at the University of Cambridge.
It was on this day in 1789 that a mob stormed the Bastille in Paris marking the start of the French Revolution. The National Day of France became an official holiday in 1880, and has always been celebrated with shows of military might, parades and fireworks.
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