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The day of glory has indeed arrived: It's Bastille Day, and, though we know we shouldn't give the Post this ammunition, it's by far our favorite national holiday. (Have you ever listened to The Marseillaise? How could it not make you want to storm the nearest Bastille?)

There are many ways to celebrate Bastille Day in New York. We're told a church in Chelsea celebrates a French Mass to mark the occasion. The Alliance Fran aise will throw a big street fair on Sunday. (The French aren't a particularly prompt people.) As for us, we'll spend tonight eating steak frites and watching Francophone drag queens at Florent.

But perhaps the greatest New York Bastille Day tradition is Les Halles Downtown's annual Waiter's Race, which, argued the Press's Jim Knipfel, now carries some serious geopolitical implications.

This year's Waiter and Waitress Race — in which, well, waiters run a course while trying to balance a tray holding a bottle and wine glass — may actually give the French and Americans reason to come together in an atmosphere of mutual understanding, friendship and hatred of the Swedes. See, the winners of the Stockholm Waiters Race are coming to town again, and last year they were unbeatable. Are we going to stand for that?

So, who won? The dastardly Swedes? The drunken French? The ugly Americans? We're counting on you, people, to let us know these things: tips@gawker.com.

And, by the by, some cameraphone pics would would make us really vive your France.

Bastille Day Festival [NY Press]