Bastille Day--people of French descent and French citizens check in please!

[Deep13]

Long live the Republic of France.

http://www.navyband.navy.mil/anthems/ANTHEMS/France.mp3

[Deep13]

1. My great grandmother's dad is from Rouen, Normandie.

That's were the English murdered Jeanne D'Arc on May 30, 1431.

[Moondog]

2. My grandmother, who was not French, was educated in France before WW I.

She was very fond of France, the French, and she celebrated Bastille Day every year. She was, in fact, English, but was a Frenchwoman in spirit and in her tastes. I was very fond of her, and adopted her tradition upon her death. Thus, I check in in her honor on this day of days.

[rug]

3. I am 1/8 French and I smoke in elevators.

[mix]

4. in solidarity

:hi:

[jakefrep]

5. Today is my birthday and my ancestors are from France.

My desire is to spend my 40th birthday in France.

[jeff30997]

6. French Canadian here.

Quebec Flag:




France Île-de-France Fleur-de-Lys:




Vive la France! :toast:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

11. Celine Dion really IS an excellent singer.

Note:I'm a musician, and have been all my life. She is excellent except for that suckwad Titanic song.

[jeff30997]

15. Celine who ?

O8)

[Aristus]

7. My surname is French, and my great-grandparents were full-blooded French Catholics.

Anyone bashes the French around me is going to get a French bash from me!

B-)

[Aristus]

8. Self-delete.

Dupe. :blush::dunce:

[Bertha Venation]

9. Le Quatorze Juillet!

I'm not French. I just like saying "Le Quatorze Juillet."

[DrDan]

10. I saw one of the coolest Bastille Day celebrations this morning on the Tour de France

picture 3 long tables - one with a blue table cloth, one with a white table cloth, and one with a red table cloth.

Everyone at the table with the blue table cloth was wearing blue, etc.

It was cool as the bikes can racing by - they all stood and cheered.

anyway . . .

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. Moi, je suis Francaise!

Un petit peu!

French-Canadian, on my dad's side...

My great grandmother was called "memere."

:hi:

[Deep13]

16. My grand mother is memere and so is her mother. nt

[Schema Thing]

13. I have a friend who lives in Paris; this is her birthday.

It's the one birthday I remember easily.

[VenusRising]

14. My family comes from the Alsace-Lorraine region.

I love my French heritage. :loveya:

[Deep13]

18. Is Aix-la-Chapel (Aachen) near there? nt

[VenusRising]

20. No, that's closer to Belgium than France. n/t

[nuxvomica]

24. Mine too

My mom was named "Lorraine" in honor of that original homeland though her family is more recently from Quebec.

[greatauntoftriplets]

17. I have French ancestry.

Happy Bastille Day to all!

[kwassa]

19. went to a Bastille Day party for toddlers

at the French language school our daughter went to.

They had a crepes caterer today!

Puppets, songs, much fun, actually.

edit to add:
we are now drinking champagne and eating brie, after toddler is in bed in honor of this day.

Vive la France!

[mitchum]

21. I'm still pissed at Old Pierre for leaving and coming to the US

[Sebastian Doyle]

22. This is a Rush thread, right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7yxA9vt2-c

[Zomby Woof]

23. As an American mongrel

I have French ancestry in several branches of my maternal line. Most recently of note, my Polish great-grandfather's last name was Labay. This was due to the dislocation of many French nationals to what was then Poland in the wake of the Napoleonic wars. That explains why his name wasn't what we usually associate with Polish nationals - strings of consonants, or the well-known "-ski" suffix.

[applegrove]

25. I had a "aunt" who always used to sing the Marseillaise on July 14th. She is

such a great character. Lots of fun.