C'est la 216ème Fête de la Fédération!
Friday, 14 July 2006 12:38...Or, if you prefer, the 217th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille.
Either way, in honor of the occasion, I have found a page from Camille Desmoulins' first journal, Révolutions de France et de Brabant, on the subject of patriotic streetlamps:

The inscription on the lanterne reads: premier vengeur des crimes.
Either way, in honor of the occasion, I have found a page from Camille Desmoulins' first journal, Révolutions de France et de Brabant, on the subject of patriotic streetlamps:

The inscription on the lanterne reads: premier vengeur des crimes.