{"id":26100,"date":"2019-07-09T14:14:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T21:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=26100"},"modified":"2019-07-09T14:14:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T21:14:44","slug":"california-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-french\/","title":{"rendered":"California Loves the French Life on Bastille Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/sacbasti.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured is Sacramento&#8217;s annual Bastille Day Waiters&#8217; Race and Street Festival in the Handle District.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since California wines beat out the French in a blind tasting test decades back, the Golden State has held a special affinity for its French brethren.<\/p>\n<p>If California was a country it would be on similar par with France in terms of size and economy. So it&#8217;s only natural that once a year California&#8217;s Frenchmen and French lovers come together to celebrate France&#8217;s Bastille Day on July 14, less than two weeks after America&#8217;s Independence Day on July 4.<\/p>\n<p>The French National Day celebrates a turning point of the French Revolution, the Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789. (Independence Day commemorates the Declaration of Independence of the United States, on July 4, 1776.)<\/p>\n<p>Bastille Day celebrations throughout France include the oldest and largest regular military parade in Europe. In California celebrations are more subdued but certainly lively and fun. Among them are a delightful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/santa-barbara-french-festival.html\"> French Festival<\/a>\u00a0in Santa Barbara July 13-14, 2019 \u00a0with can-can dancers, a French poodle parade and two days of foods, music and French entertainment.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-french-festivals.html\">California French Festivals<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>San Francisco Bastille Day \u00a0July 13, 2019 on the Embarcadero. Event includes a Waiters&#8217; Race or Course De Serveuses Et Garcons De Cafe<\/li>\n<li>Sacramento Bastille Day Waiters&#8217; Race \/ Festival July 14<\/li>\n<li>Bastille Day at the French Sofitel Beverly Hills July 14<\/li>\n<li>Bastille Day at 3 Bay Area locations of restaurant Left Bank &#8212; San Jose (Santana Row,) Larkspur and Menlo Park<\/li>\n<li>San Diego Open House and Lawn Party July 14 at The House of France in the International Cottages Center in Balboa Park<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured is Sacramento&#8217;s annual Bastille Day Waiters&#8217; Race and Street Festival in the Handle District. Ever since California wines beat out the French in a blind tasting test decades back, the Golden State has held a special affinity for its French brethren. If California was a country it would be on similar par with France [&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\/26100"}],"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=26100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26101,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26100\/revisions\/26101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}