le quatorze juillet - Bastille Day

It has become traditional for the French Connection to celebrate  le quatorze juillet in Wolsingham on a suitable Saturday in July with a number of appropriately themed events - a boules tournament, a French drama and songs, a 'Brocante' table top sale and a swim across the English Channel (in the Weardale pool) featured in 2009.

The programme for this year - to be held on Saturday 16th of July - is still being drawn up but it is sure to offer fun and a taste of France!

Bastille Day is the French national holiday, celebrated on 14 July each year. In France, it is formally called La Fête Nationale (National Celebration) and commonly le quatorze juillet (the fourteenth of July). It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789; the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern nation, and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which preceded the First Republic, during the French Revolution

from Wikipedia - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastille_Day for more information.