La Fête Nationale - Pompiers Ball

Woke up early aujourd’hui.  Need to study and wanted to get my blog up to speed.  After stressing about trying to catch up, I decided I just need to start posting recent things and slowly post the past stuff.  So, I will post tidbits of past stuff while keeping up on present.  
 

Anyway, today is the day before La Fête de la Bastille or La Fête Nationale.  Fête means “party” en la langue française and from what I’ve seen from the other Fêtes here, they it’s not just a name; they really mean party.  La Fête Nationale is like the 4^th of July in the U.S. and celebrates the storming of the Bastille.  From what I know it’s a celebration of the break away from feudalism and the monarchy . . . rebellion against tyrants and unjust power.  La Fête National celebrates the rebelliousness of the French and reminds them of who they are and what they believe in.   

 

Today the sapeurs pompiers (fire fighters) have balls and the entire city is supposed to party.  The city will be open all night and bars will have very cheap drinks.  So, Cyn and I will try to go out, but not get too crazy.  We’ll see how I feel in tomorrow’s post. 

Oh yeah, Paris is suposed to have the some of the best fireworks shows in the world around the city the end with a giant show at le tour eiffel.