Thaindian News

By Gina Gomez
July 14, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Bastille day, the French national holiday is celebrated every year on July 14, 2010 which marks the birth of La Republique. The Bastille Day celebration is one of the most coveted celebrations of the French citizens. On this day the ruling people with superior intellectual or social or economic status mixes with the ordinary citizens in the Presidential Garden to raise a toast for the celebration. However, this year the Bastille Day scenario if different as the President Nicolas Sarkozy has cut the annual party of Bastille’s Day.

The President cited the reason as Bastille Day celebrations is an inappropriate use of money more because the Government is presently avoiding “unwanted” belt tightening measures. This news has made the French Citizens disappointed as they were waiting eagerly for celebrating the day to the utmost extent. Every year this day marks exclusive Bastille Fireworks, parades and various other activities like French cuisine cookouts. Even England, America, South Africa and Hungary as these countries have huge population of French expatriates.

Bastille day is formally called as La Fete Nationale which means National Celebration and also Le Quatorze Juillet which means The Fourteenth of July. Today, however, there was a military parade like every other year where the French President inaugurated the parade in the morning and he reviewed the troops and there were thousands of people gathered to watch the parade. It was a real question for the French citizens if the parade would take place as there were many criticisms triggered against the French Government as it invited the armies from former colonies celebrating 50 years of independence to join the military parade giving impressions to the critics that France has granted them independence. However, this controversy was solved as the Government vehemently denied all the claims.