Joyeux fete de Bastille! It's the French Independence Day, celebrated, like ours, on the anniversary of the symbolic toppling of a symbol of the repressive monarchy. If I told you that one of the anniversaries marked the date a bunch of middle-aged men sat around and signed a piece of paper, and the other marked the date of an angry mob toppling a prison, rioting, and setting fires, well, you probably wouldn't guess which was America and which was France based on today's stereotypes. How far we've come!