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Bastille Day

–noun
July 14, a national holiday of the French republic, commemorating the fall of the Bastille in 1789.
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Bas·tille Day   (bā-stēl')   
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.
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