According to Wikipedia,
Over 50 U.S. cities conduct annual celebrations
Baltimore has a large Bastille Day celebration each year at Petit Louis in the Roland Park area of Baltimore City.
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- Baltimore has a large Bastille Day celebration each year at Petit Louis in the Roland Park area of Baltimore City.
- Boston has a celebration annually, hosted by the French Cultural Center for over 35 years. Recently, the celebration took place in The Liberty Hotel, a former city jail converted into a boutique hotel, though more often the festivities occur in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood, near the Cultural Center’s headquarters. The celebration typically includes francophone musical performers, dancing, and French cuisine.
- Chicago has hosted a variety of Bastille Day celebrations in a number of locations in the city, including Navy Pier and Oz Park. The recent incarnations have been sponsored in part by the Chicago branch of the French-American Chamber of Commerce and by the French Consulate-General in Chicago.
- Milwaukee‘s four-day [2] street festival begins with a “Storming of the Bastille” with a 43-foot replica of the Eiffel Tower.
- Minneapolis has a celebration in Uptown with wine, French food, pastries, a flea market, circus performers and bands.
- New Orleans has multiple celebrations, the largest in the historic French Quarter.[15]
- New York City has numerous Bastille Day celebrations each July, including Bastille Day on 60th Street hosted by the French Institute Alliance Francaise between Fifth and Lexington Avenues on the Upper East Side of Manhattan[16], Bastille Day on Smith Street in Brooklyn, and Bastille Day in Tribeca. The Empire State Building is illuminated in blue, white and red.
- Orlando has a boutique Bastille Day street festival that began in 2009 in the Audubon Park Garden District and involves champagne, wine, music, petanque, artists, and street performers.
- Philadelphia‘s Bastille Day, held at Eastern State Penitentiary, involves Marie Antoinette throwing locally manufactured pastries at the Parisian militia, as well as a re-enactment of the storming of the Bastille.[17]
- San Francisco has a large celebration in the downtown historic French quarter.
- Seattle‘s Bastille Day Celebration, held at the Seattle Center, involves performances, picnics, wine and shopping.
No matter where you are today, Get your French on!