{"id":1021,"date":"2019-07-16T17:11:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T21:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2019-07-17T01:53:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T05:53:55","slug":"week-5-rouge-blanc-et-bleu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/2019\/07\/16\/week-5-rouge-blanc-et-bleu\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 5: Rouge, Blanc et Bleu"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past weekend included the 14th of July, otherwise known as the \u201cQuatorze Juillet\u201d in France. My host mom clarified to us one night at the dinner table that it\u2019s really only the Americans who routinely call it \u201cBastille Day.\u201d The French prefer to just call it the \u201c14th of July\u201d since that title refers more to the idea of independence rather than revolution. You also don\u2019t really say \u201cjoyeaux quartorze juillet\u201d (happy 14th of July) here. According to my host mom, it\u2019s really only an American thing to just declare \u201chappy … !\u201d for any event that comes up in our daily routine.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the actual day of this French celebration, however, I took a trip to Paris with one of the other students living in my host house. We didn\u2019t arrive in time to see the parade on the Champs-\u00c9lyss\u00e9s, but we did see the news and military helicopters from the event flying overhead as we walked along the Seine. Overall, though, it was interesting to just see so many people dressed in red, white, and blue because normally, there aren\u2019t many explicit national symbols of France on the streets. What I mean is that in America, we have American flags and political symbols everywhere. I\u2019m remembering in particular how in elementary and middle school, there was an American flag in every room and we would all stand for the pledge of allegiance every morning. In contrast, French flags are hung only outside of official public buildings, so the 14 of July carried an expected, yet still exciting, change in seeing so many people celebrating their country since I haven\u2019t see that much explicit French patriotism since arriving.<\/span><\/p>\n

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By late afternoon, this area\u00a0in the Jardin des Tuileries was filled with people dancing and celebrating the holiday as they prepared to watch the firework festival later that evening.<\/p>\n

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Similar to Americans, the French close out their 14 Juillet with a display of \u201cfeux d\u2019artifice\u201d (fireworks). I arrived back in Tours just in time to see the finale of red, white, and blue over the Loire. We had a perfect view of the show on the bus as we crossed the bridge over the river and back into the city, so it was certainly a \u201cjour de l’ind\u00e9pendance\u201d of \u201crouge, blanc, et bleu\u201d to remember. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This past weekend included the 14th of July, otherwise known as the \u201cQuatorze Juillet\u201d in France. My host mom clarified to us one night at the dinner table that it\u2019s really only the Americans who routinely call it \u201cBastille Day.\u201d The French prefer to just call it the \u201c14th of July\u201d since that title refers … Continue reading Week 5: Rouge, Blanc et Bleu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3397,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73607],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3397"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}