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PHOTOS: Celebrating Bastille Day with a Block Party

People celebrated France's national holiday with music, food and more during a Marlborough Street fair on Friday.

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Sweet smells and French music wafted along Marlborough Street on Friday as people came together to celebrate Bastile Day, France's national holiday. It commemorates the storming of the Bastille prision in 1789, and celebrates the people's uprising against the monarchy and espouses the three pillars of the French republic: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity.

Hosted by the , between 6 - 10 p.m. they celebrated with live music, dancing, food and friends.

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