BASTILLE DAY - JULY 14.

I acknowledge this French holiday every year, with a nod and bow. This interest comes from my French ancestors. Andre’ Lamoureux, and his wife, Suzanne LaTour, came to this country around 1700, from Bristol, England. They were with a contingent of fellow Huguenots (protestants), who left Rochelle, France because of religious persecution. This cadre settled near New Amsterdam (now, New York City). They named their new village NEW Rochelle!
The following is from Wikipedia:
Bastille Day is the French national holiday, celebrated on 14 July each year. In France, it is called “Fete Nationale” (National Holiday), or more commonly “quatorze juillet” (“14th of July”). It commemorates the 1790 Fete de la Federation, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July, 1789; the storming of the Bastille was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern French “nation’, and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which preceded the First Republic, during the French Revolution.