- What is Bastille Day? - http://www.cstone.net/~bry-back/holidayfun/bastilleday.html
Features simple description of the holiday.
- Bastille Day - http://www.progress.org/archive/fold46.htm
An Editorial which contends citizens have not yet obtained the economic justice for which American, French, Russian, and other revolutionaries fought.
- Bastille Day - http://HightowerTrail.com/Bastil.htm
Provides information about this French symbol of the end of the Monarchy and the beginning of the First Republic.
- La Marseillaise, 1972 - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/marseill.html
French National Anthem that was banned because of its revolutionary association. Includes French and English words, plus downloadable audio.
- Bastille Day - French National Holiday - http://french.about.com/library/weekly/aa071400.htm
Information on the storming, the national flag that ensued from that, and subsequent history. Includes links to more information.
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen - http://www.constitution.org/fr/fr_drm.htm
List of the 17 articles that were approved by the National Assembly of France after the storming. Includes footnote on the writer and his friendship and admiration of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington.
- Remains of the Bastille - http://www.atkielski.com/inlink.php?/PhotoGallery/Paris/General/BastilleRemainsSmall.html
A color photograph of what remains of the Bastille in Paris.
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