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Bastille Day
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English
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
Bastille Day
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: cmn 巴士底日 Bāshìdǐ Rì
French: fr Fête Nationale
Galician: gl A toma da Bastilla f
Maltese: mt Jum il-Bastilja
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Bastilledagen m
Russian: ru День Взятия Бастилии (d'en' vz'átija bastílii)
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