Irene S. Levine is an award-winning travel and lifestyle journalist. Bastille Day, a national holiday in France, commemorates the storming of the Bastille and the beginning of the French Revolution.

Bastille are about to grace our eyes and ears with their presence in the Live Lounge and we are beyond looking forward to it. Like, sitting on the floor rocking back and forth excited. So of ...

On July 11 Louis XVI ordered the army to disband it. On July 14 a mob stormed the Bastille prison in Paris looking for arms to protect itself from the king's forces. The capture of the Bastille ...

Dan Smith's Brit Award-winning, London-based band Bastille have scored three UK number one albums While providing singalong hits like Pompeii and Happier at Reading and Leeds Festivals last month ...

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- The East Town Association has announced the dates for the 2025 Bastille Days festival and Storm the Bastille 5K Run/Walk. The festival will take place from Thursday ...

French President Emmanuel Macron will break with tradition and not give a news conference on Bastille Day because his "complex thoughts" may prove too much for journalists, reports say. A ...

It would be fair to associate Bastille with a post-Radiohead vogue for epically overwrought indie rock – with songs that ...

On today’s weekly music show on Arts24, Jennifer Ben Brahim speaks to the singer of one of the most successful British bands ...

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On Tuesday, East Town Association announced the dates for the 2025 Bastille Days festival, as well as the annual Storm the Bastille 5k Run/Walk. Soyez excité, Milwaukee! It’s time to start ...

One of the most celebrated dates on the French calendar is the14th of July — the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille in 1789, which signalled the beginning of the French Revolution.