Celebrate France’s Bastille Day at the 7th Annual Alliance Française Summer Soirée 2013, Saturday, July 13th at Four Mile Historic Park. Watch the park transform into a Parisian mecca, featuring delectable French food and wine from some of Denver’s finest restaurants, bakeries, and caterers. You will feel like you’re in Paris on Bastille Day with party music, dancing, and dining. Pictured below, Palace of Versailles with the French Flag raised for Bastille Day.
Confirmed vendors include: Crêpes ‘n Crêpes, Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar, AmiCuisine, Le Central, Escoffier School of Culinary Arts – Boulder, Randolph’s Restaurant & Bar, Olivier Cuisine, Opus Fine Dining & Aria Wine Bar. Wine provided by George Duboeuf & Lillet. Ticket price includes all food and drink so you can sip and sample to your heart’s desire. $60 for members of Alliance Française de Denver & $70 for non-members. Pictured here, 2012 Alliance Française Summer Soiree.
Fuller Sotheby’s International Realty broker, Bob McCarroll is an avid supporter of the Alliance Française de Denver – an organization whose mission is to encourage the study of French cultures and language, and to foster cultural, intellectual, artistic, and friendly exchanges between the French-speaking world and our local community.
“The Alliance Francaise, a world-wide non-profit cultural and educational organization of which we are a part, is celebrating its 130th anniversary this year. Founded in Paris in 1883, today there are more than 1,040 chapters in 136 countries, with 115 locations in the U.S. Our center in Denver was founded in 1897, which makes us one of the oldest non-profit organizations in the Denver Metro area,” said Dick Badler, Board President.
Historically known as French National Day, Bastille Day serves as a celebration to commemorate the the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern nation, and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which preceded the First Republic, during the French Revolution. Festivities and official ceremonies are held all over France.