About two hundred years ago, there was a big change in the country of France. The French people were being badly mistreated by their king and the nobles. So, the people rose up and got rid of them...
THE FORTRESS THAT DIDN’T WORK
You'd have to travel 100 miles (160 kilometers) an hour for two whole hours to get from one end to the other of a line of fortresses along the eastern border of France. And you'd have to pay two...
FREE FOR ALL
"Storm the Bastille! Free the prisoners!" That's what an angry crowd shouted as they ran through the streets of Paris, France, on July 14,1789. The French Revolution had already begun. And the...
December
Woody Allen (1935) American comedian, actor, and filmmaker Lee Trevino (1939) American professional golf champion Georges Seurat \(1859\) French artist who started a way of painting called...
September
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875) American author of "Tarzan" novels Rocky Marciano (1923) heavyweight boxing champion Lydia Kamekeha Liliuokalani (1838) queen of Hawaii Eugene Field (1850) American...
Long live France!
Bastille Day July 14 > This French family is putting up colorful pennants in preparation for > Bastille Day. In France, July 14 means much the same as July 4 does in the United States. It's a...
July
Comte de Rochambeau (1725) French general who fought in the American Revolution George Sand (1804) French writer Sir Charles Tupper (1821) a prime minister of Canada Thurgood Marshall (1908)...
The Maid of Orleans
Saint Joan of Arc May 30 The year is 1429. A young French peasant girl---only seventeen years old---is clad in armor and mounted on a war horse. She holds her sword high in the air. Above her...
The Battle of Puebla
This painting in a Mexico City museum shows the Mexicans defeating the French in the Battle of Puebla. Cinco de Mayo May 5 A little more than a hundred years ago, France started a war with...
The man in the black carriage
Birthday of Benito Juarez March 21 Benito Juarez (behn toh rehs) was one of the greatest leaders in the history of Mexico. His birthday, on March 21, is celebrated as a national holiday. Juarez...
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