Bastille Day at Chatillon-DeMenil Mansion
- When: Sunday, July 13, 2025, 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Location: 3352 DeMenil Pl., St. Louis, MO 63118
- Cost: $12 per person for NM
Join us for our annual Bastille Day celebration! Bastille Day commemorates the July 14, 1789, storming of the infamous Bastille prison in Paris at the beginning of the French Revolution. The Bastille was associated with royal power and represented the tyranny of the ruling royal class that the lower class famously overthrew. Bastille Day is known in France as "la Fête Nationale" or "le Quatorze Juillet."
Three generations of the DeMenil family helped make Bastille Day one of St. Louis’s most popular summer events during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dr. Nicolas DeMenil, a resident of St. Louis since 1836, served as president of the group of French émigrés that organized St. Louis’s first Bastille Day, celebrated on the 14th of July 1880. (This was the same day that France officially inaugurated its national fête on the other side of the Atlantic.)
- Website: www.demenil.org
- Category: Family Fun
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