At Club Med, in Tahiti,on Bastille Day (July 14) they re-enact the storming of the Bastille with the club employees dressed in the court apparel, located in a Bastille composed of cream puffs. The peasants (guests at Club Med) are armed with bags of icing sugar and sent off to storm and demolish the Bastille. Great fun! It’s followed by a ten course dinner (yes!!!) with champagne sorbet to ‘refresh your palate’ half way through, and a spectacular fireworks display after dark.

It’s a painless way to learn a bit of history…..

in fact, democracy never came to france in any form; however, the closest it did come didnot arrive until after all of the various Napoleans were dead and buried and their many kins who were given phony titles on phony thrones all across europe.

it really took world war I to bring anythng close to democracy to france.