FRENCH NATIONAL FETE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 166, 14 July 1914, Page 2

FRENCH NATIONAL FETE.

HONOURED IN AUCKLAND. ——— % RECEPTION iBY THE COXSI'L, •Ero-nolnmon all over "tlif world are tori iv cek»bn-nt'injj their .National i'auu. The tricolour its l>oing Hown from bhe .i llicrt* of tlic French Consul in Auckland I'Mr. Rigon-au). and a rct'cption is 'being luM t>iii,- afternoon at the consulate. •Tonsillar l-t-prcscntativeis of other cooint ri< s ami a number of pronvliienJt eiti-f.,-it- \\aitcd : on the to-day and paid : lu-ir reaped**. In France- the Fete Nrttionale it* celelir.iieil -.villi an ent-lmt-'iaKm similar to • hut which is excited in America on Independence Day. The iky murk* the .on- liiimfavd and -twcn'ty-littlb annivcrwiry of tbe fall of tbe 'Bastille, the dramatic incidctw which t-onlod the doom uf t in- old order of things in France. It »i, in the slimmer c! ITSII tliaL tlic iirtrnrpt of tlic Court to effect «. coup d'etat. W'lrioli iml tided- the dismissal of Seeker and tlie hupproswion of the re■viiliit.il>:! by force iff amw -was answered hv the Paris mc'S capturing the Bastille, utic of the nn..-L famous or infamous jirieons •mentioned 1 in. history. It was not only the .Bastille that 'fell on tbe 14-th of ilnly. 1780. but all that Rtood for the .«;erv,...;,,,! of tba rights of hlie people.