In France, Bastille Day commemorates the storming of the Bastille Prison in 1789 by a mob of Parisians in the opening stages of the French revolution. Since then, the day is a national holiday of celebration, including dancing in the streets, as Joe and Sophie Parker experienced it on July 14, 1939 in this excerpt from Chapter 23 of Dare Not Tell:
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Joe and Sophie arrived at the Gare du Nord in Paris on July 14.
The wrought iron rafters and dusty glass roof spanning a multitude of tracks were...