When the French revolutionaries specified in the constitution of 1791 that a day of national celebration was to be held each ...

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.

President Donald Trump has applauded the Bastille Day parade in Paris, where US and French troops marched together down the Champs-Élysées. He was guest of honour as the annual parade this time ...