Happy Bastille Day from me and my French brothers and sisters to the Americans and assorted others here. I was in a small town in western France on the bicentennial Bastille Day. There was a festival and at night the whole town lit torches and marched to the church. But, instead of tearing it apart stone by stone (no offense, it's just a Bastille Day thing), we just watched fireworks. But, being part of a huge mob carrying torches was cool. Tonight, I'll probably just have a bottle of French wine. Maybe a la Rockets will come out of lurk mode?
I read this on the back of a public restroom door in Texas. "Here I sit with my buns a'clenchin, giving birth to another Frenchman.
To this day, I get pissed off at the French for giving me such a crappy last name. I mean, a French name is one thing, but then someone decides to make a last name out of raisin farmer? I got screwed.
Man, I got back to London from Paris five days before the annual parade down at Champs Elysees... but I did not regret coming to Paris one day before the bombs went off at London. Now I have to watch the internet telecasts for footage of the parade back in Vancouver. I came home just on last Sunday.
it celebrates the French finally winning something! unfortunately, it was against themselves. actually, it's from July 14th, 1789 when the French people stormed the Bastille, which was a prison. i'm pretty sure that started the French Revolution.
Happy Bastille day to you. I was actually thinking about it earlier in the week, and going to post something about you in particular, and I knew there was someone else but I didn't remember the screen name. Today comes and I never even thought about it being Bastille day. My mind was occupied with a million other things, until I saw something on the news about it.
PARIS President Jacques Chirac, upping the stakes in Paris's verbal jousting match with London, said Thursday that the French were better than the British in many domains: They have more children, they spend more on research and they live longer. Chirac made his feisty remarks in the traditional presidential Bastille Day interview... http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/07/14/news/france.php
