The mood was subdued at the annual Bastille Day celebrations put on by the French Library this past Friday, July 15, after a moment of silence took place for the victims of the attacks in Nice, France. Despite the grief, the festival drew about 2,000 revelers dancing in the closed-off Marlborough Street between Berkeley and Clarendon...

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