Bastille Day is the French national holiday, celebrated on 14 July each year. It is called Fete Nationale in France. The Bastille Day celebration honored the 1790 Fete de la Federation, held on the first anniversary of the invasion of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, the Fete de la Federation was seen as a symbol of the revolution of the modern French "nation" The French Independence Day is called as Bastille Day, which annually held on July 14.
It is called that because it celebrates the invasion of the Bastille, a notorious prison, during the French Revolution, in 1789. The Bastille prison has distinguished as uprising of modern nations and the reconciliation of all the French inside the legitimate monarchy which led the First Republic, during the French Revolution.
On 14 July, France celebrates its national holiday in remembrance of the storming of the Bastille prison, which took place in 1789 and marked the beginning of the French Revolution. With the taking of this prison, the association to replace a two-person government with a representative government began.
Bastille Day in Paris
Every July 14th, Paris celebrates Bastille Day, which marks the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789 and the first major event of the French Revolution of 1789. The obliteration of the Bastille prison in central Paris was chosen as a symbol of France's first stirrings of democracy, though it would take numerous reinstated monarchies and bloody revolutions to establish an enduring Republic. Similar in spirit to American Independence Day or Canada Day, Bastille Day is a festive event that splashes fireworks and patriotic processions across Paris.