translate English to French: France is celebrating its National Holiday, which marks the storming of a hated symbol of autocratic oppression - the Bastille prison in Paris – on 14 July 1789.
La France célèbre sa Fête nationale, qui marque la prise du symbole haï de l’oppression d’un régime autocratique, la prison de la Bastille, à Paris, le 14 juillet 1789.