JULY 14] - Details of the national holiday of July 14, 1790 - Lot 563

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JULY 14] - Details of the national holiday of July 14, 1790 - Lot 563
JULY 14] - Details of the national holiday of July 14, 1790, decreed by the King. Paris, Garnery, 1790. In-8, 8 pp, M & W 5475. On the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, La Fayette, commander of the Parisian guard, proposed to organize a Fête nationale de la Fédération on July 14, 1790, to celebrate the unity of the French people. The Fête de la Fédération took place on the Champ-de-Mars in Paris, in the presence of King Louis XVI - who had sworn an oath to the Constitution - deputies and thousands of citizens from all over France. It was the only celebration of July 14th until the law of July 6, 1880, declared it a national holiday.
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