On the 21st of May 1880, statesman Benjamin Raspail presented a proposal to have "the Republic choose the 14 July as a yearly national holiday". The law was made official on the 6th of July 1880, and the Ministry of the Interior recommended that the day should be "celebrated with all the brilliance that the local resources allow". Indeed, the celebrations of the new holiday in 1880 were particularly magnificent.

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