We like bikes at Bostonist (as long as they're not fixies). We also don't mind the French, at least not too much. So now that the World Cup is over, and it's Bastille Day, we can turn our attention to Le Tour de France, the most prestigous of cycling's three Grand Tours (the others being the Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España). Currently in its tenth of twenty-one stages, the Tour de France is about halfway over, and is scheduled for completion on July 25. Many riders took today as a working holiday, but will be grinding it out again tomorrow.
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The gap week between the celebrations of America's Independence Day and upcoming France's Bastille Day, this is the perfect time to dabble in some French and American wine tasting history.
Today is Bastille Day, marking the day in 1789 when French people stormed a prison known for arbitrary imprisonment on the king's orders, to show their support for the creation of a constitutional, rather than absolute, monarchy. (Trading in one sort of monarchy for another seems like a half measure these days, but it was rather something at the time.) Shortly thereafter, in August, the new French government would proclaim the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, which boldly stated that all men were born free and with a right to resist oppression, except, you know, Haitians and Africans.
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