Happy Bastille Day
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July 14th is Bastille Day, the French national day (or French “birthday,” if you will).
The date marks the anniversary of the July 14, 1789 storming of the Bastille Saint-Antoine prison in Paris; the fall of which is regarded as the spark which set off the French Revolution.
You can learn a lot more about it by clicking through the highlighted text above, and learn very little about it — but about as much as the average suburban American teen knew about the subject throughout the 70s and 80s — by listening to the (slightly out of tune) song below; courtesy of misters Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee, and Neil Peart, collectively and professionally known as Rush.