Happy Bastille Day!

**Banquo's Ghost** · 07-14-2009, 06:40

Best wishes to our French friends on their National day!

"Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité!"

**A Very Super Market** · 07-14-2009, 07:14

Never! Long live the monarchy!!! Vive le roi!!

**King Henry V** · 07-14-2009, 09:39

As a little gift to the Frenchies on these boards for their Fête Nationale, I present to them two songs:

First, a little reactionary twist of the traditional revolutionary song:

Ah ça ira, ça ira, ça ira,
Les sans-culottes à la Bastille.
Ah ça ira, ça ira, ça ira,
Les sans-culottes on les pendra!

Secondly, a proper revolutionary song, admitedly of '48 rather than '93, which is still sung in ole Switz, if only by members of my student fraternity:

Chauds partisans de l'aristocratie,
Vous qui troublez l'ensemble de l'État,
Prêtez l'oreille à la douce harmonie
Que vous apporte un enfant du sabbat!

Zin, zin, rantamplan
Vive les roug' à bas les blancs,
Zin, zin, rantamplan
Vive les roug' à bas les blancs!

J’ai sous la main, pour faire tintamarre,
Les instruments du peuple souverain ;
Que les chaudrons commencent la fanfare !
Faites chorus à ce bruyant refrain :

Zin, zin, rantamplan
Vive les roug’ à bas les blancs
Zin, zin, rantamplan
Vive les roug’ à bas les blancs!

Rêvez, cafards, un autre ancien régime ;
Quelques vendus peut-être obéirons.
Oui, mais avant que de payer la dîme,
Les citoyens avec moi vous diront :

Zin, zin, rantamplan
Vive les roug’ à bas les blancs
Zin, zin, rantamplan
Vive les roug’ à bas les blancs!

A ce concert que nul méchant n’échappe :
Charivari pour les conservateurs,
Pour les dévots, les partisans du pape ;
Charivari pour tous les opresseurs!

Zin, zin, rantamplan
Vive les roug’ à bas les blancs
Zin, zin, rantamplan
Vive les roug’ à bas les blancs!

Petits enfants, aimez la république
Comme la mère qui vous donna le jour,
Et répétez ce chant démocratique,
Si vous voulez la conserver toujours :

Zin, zin, rantamplan
Vive les roug’ à bas les blancs
Zin, zin, rantamplan
Vive les roug’ à bas les blancs!
I always believe that it is better to be fair and present both sides of the matter.

**Hooahguy** · 07-14-2009, 13:35

happy Bastille day!

i recently just learned about the bastille in my "making of modern europe" class. interesting stuff, especially the fact that most of the paintings of it are dramatized.

**CountArach** · 07-14-2009, 14:24

Happy Bastille Day friends

**Tristuskhan** · 07-14-2009, 15:12

Thank you all!

Actually what we commemorate is not Bastille's day itself but the party that commemorated Bastille's day one year later (Fête de la Fédération). That's odd.

Actually very few people give a d... about July the Fourteenth, by the way.

**seireikhaan** · 07-14-2009, 19:25

Bonne fete du anniversaire! (or something like that

)

**Ibn-Khaldun** · 07-14-2009, 19:28

**Kralizec** · 07-14-2009, 20:39

For this occasion, I shall use the French flag for the first time in one of my posts:

**Mouzafphaerre** · 07-14-2009, 20:44

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RIP Louis & Marry

for the revolutionists too.

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**Louis VI the Fat** · 07-14-2009, 21:16

http://www.le-metayer.fr/paris/tour-...-en-direct.php

Watch the fireworks over the Eiffel Tower! Extra large show to celebrate the 120th birthday of the tower.
Sun setting right now. Fireworks at 22:45, or 45 minutes after this post is posted.

Vive la France, et par dessus tout, vive la République!

**Andres** · 07-14-2009, 21:25

À la votre

**Hosakawa Tito** · 07-14-2009, 22:44

Originally Posted by Tristuskhan

Thank you all!

Actually what we commemorate is not Bastille's day itself but the party that commemorated Bastille's day one year later (Fête de la Fédération). That's odd.

Actually very few people give a d... about July the Fourteenth, by the way.

Hehehe, does this celebration of the party involve the consumption of alcoholic refreshments?
If so, then Lafayette I am here!

**||Lz3||** · 07-14-2009, 22:53

Vive la revolution!!.

À vos santé!

**Meneldil** · 07-14-2009, 23:25

Originally Posted by Hooahguy

happy Bastille day!

i recently just learned about the bastille in my "making of modern europe" class. interesting stuff, especially the fact that most of the paintings of it are dramatized.

All paintings from the 17th, 18th and 19th century are dramatized :p The storming of the Bastille was pretty much a fight between perhaps one thousand people who had no ammo (hence why they attacked the Bastille: it also served as an ammunition storage place) and a few soldiers too afraid to shoot and kill angry civilians.
The mob stormed the infamous fort, freed the 7 poor dudes stuck there (one of them being Sade's cousin or son IIRC), and that was about it. I'm not sure many people realized this was the beginning of the most glorious political event of the modern era back then.

Thanks for the wishes. I'm not a nationalist on crack and - as most frenchmen - don't really give a crap about the 14th of July, but I'm somewhat proud nonetheless.