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Around a table set outdoors, guests wearing blue, white and red wigs raise a toast beneath strings of tricolour bunting and light bulbs, at sunset

Collection

What we celebrate

Why do we celebrate the 14th of July? How did the pink triangle become a symbol? Some dates and some signs feel self-evident — until the day you trace their history. This collection gathers those stories.

2 articles

June

  • Last Saturday of June

    Memory

    The Pink Triangle — from silence to recognition

    Men were killed — not on a battlefield, but in a camp — for the sole reason that they loved. For decades, their suffering had no name in the history books.

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July

  • 14 July

    History

    The 14th of July… but why, exactly?

    Why is the 14th of July France's national holiday? Behind the fireworks lie two anniversaries — the storming of the Bastille in 1789 and the Fête de la Fédération in 1790 — which the law of 6 July 1880 finally brought together.

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Village de Baon

Mairie de Baon
2 Chemin d'Argentenay
89430 Baon
Yonne — Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

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  • Monday morning · 9am – 12pm
  • Office open on Monday mornings only

Closed up to and including 24 August

Town hall secretaryCéline GERMAIN

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