Bastille Day
How do people celebrate Bastille day in France?
parades, festivals, communal eating, and fireworks
Originally supposed to be a temporary structure for the 1889 Exposition.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
Captain of the USS Enterprise.
Who is Jean Luc Picard?
Perhaps the most famous of all French people, he lost the Battle of Waterloo.
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
This 2007 Pixar film features a rat named Remy who dreams of becoming a chef in Paris.
What is Ratatouille?
This Victor Hugo novel features Quasimodo and the cathedral of Notre-Dame.
What is The Hunchback of Notre-Dame?
What caused the economic hardships that ultimately led to the revolt on Bastille Day?
Widespread crop failures and Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette's frivolous spending
Utah. Juno. Sword, and Omaha.
What are the Normandy Beaches?
He was a physically deformed bell ringer.
Who was Quasimodo?
Author of a historical and adventure novel, which recounts adventures of a young man from Gascony who eventually becomes involved in affairs of state and at court.
Who is Alexander Dumas?
Audrey Tautou starred as this quirky Parisian waitress in a beloved 2001 film.
Who is Amélie?
This novel about student revolutionaries includes the character Jean Valjean.
What is Les Misérables?
What is the motto for the revolution?
liberté, égalité, fraternité
Principal Royal Residence from 1682 until the French Revolution in 1789. It contains the Hall of Mirrors.
What is Versailles?
She was otherwise known as "Beauty."
Who is Belle?
Told that the peasants had no bread, she uttered the phrase, "Let them eat cake."
Who was Marie Antoinette?
This 2011 Woody Allen film features a writer who time-travels to 1920s Paris.
What is Midnight in Paris?
This French author is known for The Stranger and existentialist themes.
Who is Albert Camus?
Where does the oldest military parade in the world take place?
Champs-Elysee avenue
Has been both literally and figuratively been called The City of Light.
What is Paris?
The Frenchest of Friends.
Who is Phoebe Buffay?
He was a physician during the plague, an astrologer, but is best known for his poetic quatrains of predictions.
Who was Nostradamus?
This musical film set in 1899 Paris starred Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman.
What is Moulin Rouge!?
This author of In Search of Lost Time is known for his incredibly long sentences.
Who is Marcel Proust?
What did Bastille day signify?
It symbolized that the loyalties did not lie with King Louis
You can see Mona Lisa here.
What is the Louvre?
She married a Weasley (Bill).
Who is Fleur Delacour?
She was a peasant, a warrior, and a saint. Died at 19.
Who was Joan of Arc?
This 1952 classic features Gene Kelly singing and dancing “in Paris.”
What is An American in Paris?
This 18th-century Enlightenment writer and philosopher was famously exiled from France.
Who is Voltaire?