The French Re-Re-Re-Re-Republic
Storming the Bastille--a revolting day for the king
On July 14, 1789, a throng of Parisian revolutionaries sent a message to France's ancien régime, storming a walled fortress--the Bastille--that had long housed the regime's political prisoners. The fortress fell, and a few years later, so did the king. France became a republic.
Then the republic fell. And re-formed. And fell. And re-formed. And fell. . . . Here's a petite look at why France salutes its Fifth Republic today.
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