Tag Archives: Bastille Day

Wrong and right: the two great “revolutions” of the 1700s

Posted on 2026-07-14 by TPOL Nathan

The contrast between the States’ Independence Day and France’s Bastille Day is often not clear to either Americans or the French. It is, however, as important to the future as we can imagine. Continue reading →

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France – hope lost?

Posted on 2025-07-14 by TPOL Nathan

Today is Bastille Day. On this day, in 1789 (235 years back), a mob stormed the prison in Paris, the Bastille, to liberate a grand total of seven prisoners, none of them actually there for significant political reasons. Another “crowd” … Continue reading →

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The false dawn of the French Revolution

Posted on 2019-07-14 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton On 14 July, the French (and some of their former colonies) celebrated Bastille Day. The French call it the “National Celebration” and it is usually considered their version of Independence Day, here in the Fifty States. That … Continue reading →

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