Bonne fête nationale à tous les Français! Vive la France! Vive l’amitié franco-roumaine !

Independence Day of France, 14 July

Bastille Day on 14 July is an opportunity for French people, wherever they may be in the world, to celebrate the symbols and values of the Republic. Say to any French person “Liberté, Egalité…”, and they will instantly complete the motto. Give it a try!

The only European country facing both the North Sea and the Mediterranean, France has been subject to a particularly rich variety of cultural influences. Though famous for the rootedness of its peasant population, it has also been a European melting pot, even before the arrival of the Celtic Gauls in the centuries before Christ, through to the Mediterranean immigrations of the 20^th century.

The National Day of France is the anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille. Bastille Day (common name given i...