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2. Bastille Day - Wikipedia

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   Bastille Day is the common name given in English-speaking countries to the national day of France, which is celebrated on 14 July each year.It is referred to, both legally [3] and commonly, as le 14 juillet (French: [lə katɔʁz(ə) ʒɥijɛ]) in French, though la fête nationale is also used in the press.

3. France's Bastille Day parade meets the Olympic torch relay in ...

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   Paris is hosting an extra-special guest for France’s national holiday Sunday — the Olympic flame lighting up the city’s grandiose military parade for Bastille Day. Just 12 days before the ...

4. Bastille Day military parade - Wikipedia

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   The parade of 2024, for the first time held at Jean de Lattre de Tassigny Square, marked the 235th year of the Revolution of 1789, the 80th anniversary of D-Day and the Liberation of France, and NATO's Diamond Jubilee anniversary, while also marking the nation's final countdown of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics - as represented by military ...

5. Public holidays in France - Wikipedia

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   French etching from 1789 depicting the storming of the Bastille, commemorated as Bastille Day. There are eleven official public holidays in France, [1] of which three are movable days which always fall on a weekday. The Alsace region and the Moselle department observe two additional days. [2]

6. France celebrates Bastille Day with pomp, a tribute to India ...

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   France celebrated its national holiday Friday with whizzing warplanes and a grand Bastille Day parade in Paris — and with more than 100,000 police deployed around the country to prevent a new ...

7. From French Can-Can dancers to road closures: Here's ... - AOL

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   It marks the French holiday of Bastille Day, which takes place on July 14 each year. Bastille Day commemorates the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, a violent uprising that helped usher ...

8. July 14 - Wikipedia

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   1789 – Storming of the Bastille in Paris. This event escalates the widespread discontent into the French Revolution. [8] Bastille Day is still celebrated annually in France. [9] 1790 – Inaugural Fête de la Fédération is held to celebrate the unity of the French people and the national reconciliation. [10]

9. France bans fireworks sales amid fears of renewed violence ...

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   France has banned the sale, possession and transport of fireworks over the Bastille Day weekend next week amid fears of renewed riots.