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Monday, July 14, 2014

Happy Bastille Day, I guess

The French don't call it that -- apparently they call it the Fete Nationale, which means something like National Throwdown -- but everybody else does. It's the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, a Paris prison where political prisoners were held, in 1798, part of the lead up to the French Revolution. Kind of like the U.S.'s Fourth of July, only they engaged in a lot of French-on-French violence, which is hard to discourage. Anyway, they have a big parade and stuff -- in fact, the largest annual military parade in Europe.

So, throw down, France. And know that on Bastille Day, 2014, Denmark surged past France to move into sixth place on the all-time visitors' list at Eff You. Don't like that, France? Refer to the name of the blog.


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