The Feast of the Federation

After women's march on versailles, the institution that best represented that triumph was the national guard. The national guard soon came to represent a very specific form of popular will. With these improvised parties cropping up all across france, the paris commune got together in may and said, he we should do one of these two days. We'll call it the fete de la federation, the feast of the federation, and we'll hold it on the anniversary of the storming of the bastille.