Most people think of revolution as a violent overturning of political institutions. Parisians storming the Bastille on July 14, 1789, became a model of popular action later adopted, in 1917, by the ...

Paris — The Louvre will remain closed for a second day running on Monday, management told the Agence France-Presse, after thieves stole crown jewels from the museum in Paris a day earlier. "The museum ...

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Those watching the cultural news of the past week probably saw the festivities in France on July 14, Bastille Day, which is celebrated annually. In some ways, the original Bastille Day marked the ...

The white gloves came off at NYC socialite Jean Shafiroff’s annual Bastille Day luncheon on Monday afternoon, we hear. The fabulously frocked social hosted the event commemorating the 1789 storming of ...

For more than two decades, Yountville’s Bastille Day celebration — a spirited affair of wine, food and French fanfare hosted by world-renowned chef Thomas Keller — brought locals and tourists to the ...

It's mid-July, the days are getting hotter, and the 43-foot Eiffel Tower replica is back up in Cathedral Square Park, which can only mean one thing: Bastille Days is right around the corner. The ...

France celebrated Bastille Day on Monday with parades, fireworks, and festivities. The holiday marks the 1789 storming of the Bastille prison, a pivotal moment in the French Revolution. This year, ...

PARIS — The City of Light decked itself out in red, white and blue on Bastille Day for the yearly military parade and fireworks show that commemorates the French Revolution and the history of the ...

PARIS -- France celebrated its biggest holiday Monday with 7,000 people marching, on horseback or riding armored vehicles along the cobblestones of the Champs-Elysees, the most iconic avenue in Paris.

PARIS — Swooping warplanes, ax-carrying warriors, a drone light show over the Eiffel Tower and fireworks in nearly every French town — it must be Bastille Day. France celebrated its biggest holiday ...