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Videos of France’s Bastille Day Celebrations (as Celebrated in the French Alps)

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Every year on July 14th the French celebrate Bastille Day (their version of Americans’ 4th of July).  The day has an interesting origin. The Fête de la Fédération on the 14 of July, 1790 was a huge feast and official event to celebrate the uprising of the short-lived constitutional monarchy in France and what people considered the happy conclusion of the French Revolution.  Today, to celebrate the event, the larger cities like Paris celebrate the holiday BIG.  Our region celebrates with smaller versions like this festival at the small town of Bourget en Huile, which has no more than 500-600 residents.  The celebration included a BarBQ, dancing, and fireworks. This celebration video is from 2009.

The second video is from this year, July 13, 2010.  I took this video of Chambery’s fireworks from our home balcony at 11pm. The big crane was in the way, unfortunately, but it still was fun to watch and made me feel a little better about missing my July 4th Fireworks Celebration this year.

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