The popular Storm the Bastille returns this summer as Downtown's only night time 5K run/walk. The run/walk, set for Thursday, July 17 at 9 p.m., serves as the annual kick-off for the Bastille Days ...

While Franschhoek is mopping up after a wet and wild week, in just a few weeks the streets of the ‘French corner’ will swap winter greys for red, white and blue, as the Franschhoek Bastille Festival ...

Today, July 14, is Bastille Day. It is the anniversary of the day in 1789 when French commoners stormed the Bastille prison fortress in Paris in a brazen challenge to the monarchy, marking the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The July 14 holiday celebrates another "shot heard 'round the world" That fear culminated on July 14 in a march to the Hôtel des ...

Today is Bastille Day – known in France as the National Celebration – a holiday that memorializes the 1798 Storming of the Bastille, a medieval fortress used, at the time, to house political prisoners ...

Don’t be alarmed today if you see a red-white-and-blue-clad mime cheering for Les Bleus. It doesn’t mean you’ve missed the World Cup Final, but instead have stumbled into a Bastille Day celebration.

On July 14, 1789, the French Revolution began with the storming of the Bastille prison. The Bastille has become such an important historical symbol that visitors to Paris seeking to get a look inside ...