Far from Les Miserables!LIVERPOOL youngsters getting their tongues around the French language were treated to a fun festival in honour of Bastille Day Bastille Day July 14; French national holiday celebrating the fall of the Bastille prison (1789). [Fr. Hist.: NCE, 245] See : Independence Bastille Day . Kids at the city centre's Holy Cross Catholic Primary School made pavement art, played boules, watched a display of traditional can can dancers and even took part in a mini French Revolution to celebrate the storming of the Bastille The Storming of the Bastille in Paris occurred on 14 July 1789. While the medieval fortress and prison known as the Bastille contained only seven prisoners, its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution and it subsequently become an icon of the French Republic. . Headteacher Angela Holleran said: "Our young people love learning French." CAPTION(S): CREATIVE: Three-year-old Anniemay Rooney makes a French flag during her school's celebration to mark Bastille Day |
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