Jouyeux quatorze julliet! Bonne fête !

[Don Corleone]

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/tharris00/Bastille%20Day/France-2.jpg

Well, tomorrow is going to be a very busy day for me, and I always forget to check in, so I figured I'd post early this year. It's technically 3:00AM in Paris, so I think it's okay to sneak this in.

Happy Bastille Day! Have a wonderful celebration!
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/tharris00/Bastille%20Day/France-1.jpg

Thank you so much for all the gifts of culture and innovation you have given us. Thank you for this guy:
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/tharris00/Bastille%20Day/Frans_Hals_-_Portret_van_Ren_Descar.jpg

and this guy:
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/tharris00/Bastille%20Day/225px-Fourier2.jpg

Thank you for this:
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/tharris00/Bastille%20Day/Eiffel-tower-2008.jpg

For this:
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/tharris00/Bastille%20Day/800px-Sainte_chapelle_-_Upper_level.jpg

and thank you very much for this:
https://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll172/angelahidalgo/NewYorkJuly2008001.jpg

Thank you for her:
https://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g180/Marklovt/marceau.jpg

for her:
https://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj97/StockholmByMorning/Isabelle%20Adjani/IsabelleAdjaniB38.jpg

and for her:
https://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa123/rico-pics/EmanuelleBeart.jpg

Viva La France!
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/tharris00/Bastille%20Day/fireworks.jpg
Liberty! Equality! Fraternity! For All!!!
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/tharris00/Bastille%20Day/france.jpg

[Raz]

You say equality, yet there is more white on that picture than red or blue!
Sucre bleu!

[Conradus]

In as far as storming a mostly empty prison ought to be celebrated, joyeux quatorze juilliet mes amis.

Thank you for our independence too ~:cheers:

[Banquo's Ghost]

One always feels somewhat conflicted celebrating an incident that led to one of my forebears becoming considerably shorter, yet gave so much to the world.

Félicitations! :balloon:

[Andres]

Joyeux 14 juillet !!

:barrel:

[CountArach]

Congratulations on your freedom to all the French members!

[KukriKhan]

Long Live the Revolution! And many thanks for helping with ours. :bow:

https://jimcee.homestead.com/756px-Eug_C3_A8ne_Delacroix_-_La_libert_C3_A9_guidant_le_peuple.jpg

[Tamur]

Spoiler Alert, click show to read...

It appears she has a 4 Defence rating but a +3 morale effect. Is this a hint at a new unit for ETW?

:france: Bonne fête! :france:

[Pannonian]

It appears she has a 4 Defence rating but a +3 morale effect. Is this a hint at a new unit for ETW?

"Screeching women".

[naut]

Thanks for these two men:

https://img513.imageshack.us/img513/6550/zizoupl4.jpg

https://img233.imageshack.us/img233/1105/wengerud4.jpg

Alles Les Blues

[Caius]

Looks like a lot of countries choose July to be free.

Congrats!

[Shahed]

Vive la FRANCE !!!

Great country, and Paris... uncomparable.

[ajaxfetish]

You've made my country possible, and the world a more cultured place. And one of the most spiritual experiences of my life was the feeling I had in Notre Dame Chartres. Thank you.

Ajax

[Louis VI the Fat]

I love all the pictures! :jumping:

Two more. The first one is from a 14 July parade last year. I think it is such a lovely picture, for so many reasons. I won't spoil it by elaborating on my thoughts about it. Instead, I'll leave it open to everybody's own interpretation:


https://img378.imageshack.us/img378/4739/biarritznq9.jpg



The second pic is taken in Bordeaux. A kiss and a cigarette in public - those two emblems of Liberty. ~;)
In the back, the monument to my beloved Girondins. The spirit of Liberty on top, breaking free of her chains.


https://img233.imageshack.us/img233/1645/baiserzi5.jpg

[Louis VI the Fat]

Joyeux 14 juillet !!

:barrel:Now to wait if Belgium will survive for long enough for us to celebrate next week's Belgian National Holiday here...

:drama2:



https://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa123/rico-pics/EmanuelleBeart.jpgAh, now there's a man of taste...:sweatdrop:



https://img513.imageshack.us/img513/6550/zizoupl4.jpg
Now there's a man of taste! http://matousmileys.free.fr/france2.gif

Zizou...Zizou...http://smileys.sur-la-toile.com/repository/Triste/pleure2.gif




One always feels somewhat conflicted celebrating an incident that led to one of my forebears becoming considerably shorter, yet gave so much to the world.

Félicitations! :balloon:Ah, but officially, the 14 July doesn't celebrate July 14th 1789, but 14-7-1790. Not the Revolution, but the reconciliation feast a year later is celebrated.

Having said that, especially for you:

'The execution of the Girondins'. ~:mecry:

https://img378.imageshack.us/img378/7646/girondinski6.jpg

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Thank you France! (https://img143.imageshack.us/img143/2826/alizee20480it2.jpg)

No, really. Thanks. (https://img120.imageshack.us/img120/1102/lovelyalizeebyrallymackya4.jpg)

[ajaxfetish]

And what would the world be without French fries, French toast, and French kissing?

Ajax

[Martok]

To echo others, allow me to thank you for helping us with our independence (no offense to Brits). Viva la France!! :france:



And what would the world be without French fries, French toast, and French kissing?

Ajax
Breakfast would be much less tasty, making out wouldn't be as fun, and burgers & sandwiches would be lonely. ~;)

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Regardless of what the post below says, the French are great. Except for (BACKROOM ALERT) EU-maniac Sarkozy. But other than that, great. ~;)



Breakfast would be much less tasty

"French" toast was known across Medieval Europe, so it's not stricty French.


making out wouldn't be as fun

Right you are.


and burgers & sandwiches would be lonely. ~;)

Belgians invented fries. ~;)

[Andres]

Now to wait if Belgium will survive for long enough for us to celebrate next week's Belgian National Holiday here...

:drama2:


Meh, whatever happens, there will be beer ~:cheers: :barrel:

Warning - Belgian politics in the following picture:

Former prime minister Verhofstadt vs his challenger Yves Leterme debating about important affairs in a drinking contest during the 2007 elections campaign:
https://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t2/AndresTheCunning/verkiezingenBelgi.jpg

[Vuk]

The French revolution was, in my opinion, a blood fest, so you will not see me celebrating it, but I will celebrate France for what she gave to the world. (coincidently mostly before the revolution)
I love French architecture, the language, and the culture. Viva la France!

[Flying Pig]

I was actually in France for the 14th, in Granville, Normandy. It's great ( I love the country) but there were a lot of people with firecrackers at 2am!

Mais...

Vive la France!

Reference to post 19, does anyone else listen to the Now Show? If so, listen to the last-but-one episode.