Tuesday, July 13, 2004

For Immediate Release

July 13, 2004

By Charlotte Laé, PR Intern

Bastille Day remains the French national holiday, roughly equivalent to the United States’ Fourth of July. It celebrates the fall of the Bastille, a fortress/prison in eastern Paris, on July 14, 1789.

To mark that special day, University of North Carolina at Wilmington PR Intern Charlotte Laé, a native of Rouen, France, and a UNCW student Marie Galeron from Paris, France will set up a display with information about the French Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of the Man and of the Citizen. For this occasion, Professor of History Michael Seidman wrote an article explaining what happened that day in Paris in 1789, and it will be available as a handout all day. The display will be in the University Union near the information desk from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.