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Snapshot: Bastille Day

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Nigel Barretto plays Pétanque with Megan and Praveen Pinisetti. Pétanque is a form of boules where the goal is to throw hollow metal balls as close as possible to a small wooden ball called a cochonnet while standing inside a circle with both feet on the ground.

Bastille Day is festival held every year in Fortville to honor the city’s French heritage. This was the sixth year Fortville has held the festival. The French holiday, Bastille Day or La Fête Nationale, is July 14, which commemorates the Storming of the Bastille in Paris on July 14, 1789. (Photos by James Feichtner)

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