Happy Bastille Day

Most Americans aren't very familiar with Bastille Day and all it's glory. Here's a little of Wikipedia says:

On 5 May 1789, Louis XVI convened the Estates-General to hear their grievances. The deputies of the Third Estate representing the common people (the two others were clergy and nobility) decided to break away and form a National Assembly. On 20 June the deputies of the Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath, swearing not to separate until a constitution had been established. They were gradually joined by delegates of the other estates; Louis started to recognize their validity on 27 June. The assembly re-named itself the National Constituent Assembly on 9 July, and began to function as a legislature and to draft a constitution.

In the wake of the 11 July dismissal of Jacques Necker, the people of Paris, fearful that they and their representatives would be attacked by the royal military, and seeking to gain arms for the general populace, stormed the Bastille, a fortress-prison in Paris which had often held people jailed on the basis of lettres de cachet, arbitrary royal indictments that could not be appealed. Besides holding a large cache of arms, the Bastille had been known for holding political prisoners whose writings had displeased the royal government, and was thus a symbol of the absolutism of the monarchy. As it happened, at the time of the siege in July 1789 there were only seven inmates, none of great political significance."

So basically they stormed the palace because they thought there would be a lot of political prisoners and there were just 7 crazies. Wiki also states "The storming of the Bastille was more important as a rallying point and symbolic act of rebellion than a practical act of defiance."

So humorous that this should also be the day of my birth. When my parents thought that they were going to get some poster child and all they got was one crazy daughter. Well, haha joke's on them because they're still my parents and they have to love me.
Happy Bastille Day to all. God bless the Frenchies!