Bridget and I went to the Bastille Day celebration at Eastern State Penitentiary. It was a lot of fun to be a part of.
This fun re-enactment is influenced more by Monty Python than the French Revolution. Dozens of French revolutionaries, armed with muskets and cannon, and singing “La Marseillaise,” stormed the grim walls of “the Bastille” (Eastern State Penitentiary, which has an historic connection to the French Bastille).
They captured Marie Antoinette (played by Terry McNally, owner of London Grill) and, ignoring her mocking cries of “Let them eat Tastykake!” dragged her to a real, functioning guillotine, built for the occasion as 2,000 Tastykakes were flung from the prison’s towers.
Now you haven’t seen anything until you’ve seen 2,000 Tastykakes being flung over a castle-like prison into a crowd of people!
Here are some of the pictures of “Marie” and the Tastykakes:
We took a tour of inside of the historic prison as well afterward:
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