#Bastille Paris

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Marcel Bovis - Place de la Bastille Paris 1947

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Bonjour, bonne journée ☕️ ⛅️

Rue de Lyon, métro Bastille🗼Paris 1960

Photo de Nico Jesse

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Taking some high ground for the bastille day parade, Paris (1988)

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The Storming of the Bastille and arrest of the Governor Marquis de Launay, 14 July, 1789

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France will be anti-fascist or it won’t be at all

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"When I´m with you, I feel so...free!"

Joyeux 14 Juillet <3 Celebrating Liberté for Adrien!

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Bastille metro station in Paris

French vintage postcard

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Paris. 11ème, near the Bastille, the heart of this rarely soothing district, lies one of the most charming and peaceful alleys on the Right Bank: the Cour Damoye. As you enter, it’s as if time has stood still. This hundred-meter-long cobbled alley is lined with small buildings with typically industrial facades, attractively adorned with climbing plants.

Paris. 11ème, près de la Bastille, dans le coeur de ce quartier rarement apaisant, se cache l’une des allées les plus charmantes et les plus calmes de la rive droite : la cour Damoye. Lorsqu’on y entre, on dirait que le temps s’est arrêté. Cette allée pavée longue d’une centaine de mètres est bordée de petits immeubles aux façades typiquement industrielles et joliment habillées de plantes grimpantes.

(Crédit Photos Christophe Puechavic)

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Toits de Paris by Paul Second

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JR - Ballet, le porté de la Bastille #9, close-up, paper block, Paris, France, 2021

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Wang Yibo E142 torch bearer, torch relay is as follows.

⏰Paris Time:

July 14 22:49 - 22:52

⏰Beijing time:

July 15 04:49 -04:52

Where:85 Rey beaubourg 2 Reu du

Grenier -Saint-lazare - Near centre Pompidou

Official live: France TV

*Specific to the actual prevail

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Bonjour ☕️ 🥐 🍒, bon Dimanche de Fête Nationale 🇨🇵

Fête du 14 Juillet place de la Bastille 🗼Paris 1960

Photo de Sanford H. Roth

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1989

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Il y a deux sortes de révolutions : les révolutions en arrière et les révolutions en avant. Révolutions pour révolutions, il vaut mieux servir celles de l'avenir ; car si l'avenir a des illusions, sans doute comme toute chose humaine, le passé n'a que des ruines.

Alphonse de Lamartine, Les pensées diverses (1869)

Je ne suis pas française, mais j'ai de la famille et des amis français. J'aime vivre en France. En tant que monarchiste, je n'aime pas la Révolution française, mais j'aime son histoire, sa culture et son peuple. C'est pour cette raison que je peux faire la fête aujourd'hui.

Je vous souhaite à tous une très bonne fête en ce 14 juillet !

Vive la France !

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“That one never sleeps” — Napoleon mentioned in John Quincy Adams’ diary

Pictured: The Elephant of the Bastille. Commissioned by Napoleon. It was supposed to be made of bronze, but only a plaster full-scale model was built.

Between diplomatic appointments, John Quincy Adams met his wife and son in Paris. He was at leisure, passing time as he wrote in his diary “as agreeably as any part of my life.” By happenstance, the visit of Adams coincided with the return of Napoleon from Elba, called the Hundred Days, which ended with his defeat at Waterloo. In his diary entry of March 28, 1815, Adams mentions a chat with the doorkeeper of the elephant, who told him that 200 men once worked on the job, but now, under Louis XVIII (the restored Bourbon monarch), only 7 or 8. With Napoleon’s return, said the doorkeeper, work on the fountain would resume “because that one doesn’t sleep” (car celui-là ne dort pas). The artist was unable to persuade the government, when the monarchy returned, that the elephant had naught to do with Bonaparte. It figures in Victor Hugo’s masterpiece Les Misérables when a ruthless crook occupies it and, showing a loving heart, shelters a street urchin. The basin remains today.

— Aaron Burr in Exile: A Pariah in Paris, 1810-1811, by Jane Merrill and John Endicott, pp. 99

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Adams’ diary entry, date: 28 March 1815

We rode round upon the Boulevards to the Porte St. Antoine; and visited the works, at the Canal de l’Oureq and the colossal Elephant to be erected in Bronze, for a public fountain on the spot where the Bastille formerly stood— The model in clay is under a shed—it is 55 feet high, and 45 feet long— In a separate chamber, shewn to us by the door keeper, as a special favour, there is a small model in clay, marked out in pieces, as the great bronze original work is to be cast— He told us that there had been formerly two hundred workmen constantly employed upon it— That while the king was here, it was almost abandoned—not more than seven or eight men kept at work. Now it would be resumed Car celui la ne dort pas, and in two years the work would be completed.

(John Quincy Adams Digital Diary)