Year of the French

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Year of the French

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Location

Paris

Year

1989

Date

Production 02/07/1989

Length

24min 41sec

Audio

sound

Format

Betacam

colour

Source

Digitised as part of the UTV Archive Partnership Project (ITV, Northern Ireland Screen and PRONI)

Courtesy

Department for Communities, ITV, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

Rights Holder

ITV

It is illegal to download, copy, print or otherwise utilise in any other form this material, without written consent from the copyright holder.

Description

This year marks the 200 anniversary of the Storming of Bastille, the event which signified the start of the French revolution, all this summer France will celebrate - and no city more than Paris.

Jeanie Johnston is in Paris with Collin Radford, head of the French department at Queens University to find more out about what happened and why the French want to commemorate such a violent time.

Credits

A UTV Production 

Post Production Editor: Philip White

Producer/ Director: Bruce Milliard 

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