{"id":24412,"date":"2017-07-10T11:08:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T18:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24412"},"modified":"2017-07-10T01:09:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T08:09:01","slug":"bastille-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/bastille-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Bastille Day and French Festivals in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/cafe-majestic.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>If states were countries, California would be France.<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In a single year California boasts approx. $2.44 trillion of economic output, slightly above the annual GDP of France.<\/li>\n<li>The largest number of Franco-Americans of any state (around 1.5 million) live here.<\/li>\n<li>California has French Gulch, French Camp, French Valley and Lafayette, where a statue of the famous French general stands on the Historic Plaza Park.<\/li>\n<li>California wines rocked the world when they beat out French wines for the very first time, creating a revolution of sorts, coined The Judgment of Paris.<\/li>\n<li>French American International School San Francisco preps youth, delivering a rigorous bilingual (French\/English) immersion program through middle school, culminating in either French Baccalaureate or International Baccalaureate program in its International High School.<\/li>\n<li>Bastille Day, or French National Day, on the 14th of July, is a tradition celebrated by Californians &#8212; and that&#8217;s no surprise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-french-festivals.html\">California French Festivals &amp; Events<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>SANTA BARBARA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/santa-barbara-french-festival.html\"> French Festival<\/a> July 15-16, 2017. A French Poodle Parade, can-can dancers, Bohemian music and cuisine of France all make this free festival the ultimate celebration of California&#8217;s French Riviera. And it&#8217;s FREE<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO: Bastille Day Kermesse &amp; Bal Populaire July 15 at Justin Herman Plaza on the Embarcadero lasts all day and it&#8217;s FREE!<\/li>\n<li>The annual Bastille Day Block Party July 14 takes place in the Alley at<b>\u00a0<\/b>Taverna Aventine.<\/li>\n<li>Beverly Hills, Santa Clara, San Jose, San Diego and Saratoga all celebrate Bastille Day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If states were countries, California would be France. In a single year California boasts approx. $2.44 trillion of economic output, slightly above the annual GDP of France. The largest number of Franco-Americans of any state (around 1.5 million) live here. California has French Gulch, French Camp, French Valley and Lafayette, where a statue of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24412"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}