Bastille Day

English

Proper noun

Bastille Day

1. The French national holiday celebrated on 14 July each year. It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789; the Fête de la Fédération was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern French "nation".

Translations

French national holiday

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巴士底日 (zh) (Bāshìdǐ Rì)

• French: Fête Nationale
• Galician: A toma da Bastilla f
• Maltese: Jum il-Bastilja
• Russian: День Взятия Бастилии (Denʹ Vzjatija Bastilii) (d'en' vz'átija bastílii)