[The question is so absurd to France that he has to laugh.]
Heavens, no. The Bastille was a prison that was stormed back in the eighteenth century. It marked what was more or less the start of the French Revolution, so we have adopted it as our national holiday.
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Heavens, no. The Bastille was a prison that was stormed back in the eighteenth century. It marked what was more or less the start of the French Revolution, so we have adopted it as our national holiday.