Bastille Day, July 14: how the French celebrate a great event in the French Revolution

"Prise de la Bastille" by Jean-Pierre Houël

"July 14, 1789, is a French national holiday that celebrates the invasion by Parisians of the fortress-prison Bastille Saint-Antoine."

http://blog.nmai.si.edu/main/2011/07/happy-bastille-day.html