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Celebrating Bastille Day
The Philippine Star
|August 14, 2025
Why is the French National Day known as Bastille Day? Parisian revolutionaries and a mutinous troop stormed and dismantled the Bastille, a royal fortress and prison that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchy, on the morning of July 14, 1789, marking the beginning of the French Revolution.
This year, the French National Day celebrates the Ocean's Year in 2025. "The Ocean is our common good. It feeds and protects our peoples. It makes us dream and travel. It provides us with sustainable energy, trade,
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