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The Bastille Day military parade, also known as the 14 July military parade, translation of the French name of Défilé militaire du 14 juillet, is a French military parade that has been held on the morning of Bastille Day, 14 July, each year in Paris since 1880, almost without exception.
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.
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 ...
1 January – New Year's Day; 18 April – Good Friday† 20 April – Easter; 21 April – Easter Monday; 1 May – International Workers' Day; 8 May – Victory Day; 29 May – Ascension Day; 8 June – Whit Sunday; 9 June – Whit Monday; 14 July – Bastille Day; 15 August – Assumption Day; 1 November – All Saints' Day; 11 November ...
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 ...
France is staging a seduction campaign for visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, guest of honor at Friday's annual Bastille Day parade, with the French president calling India a “key ...
July Fourteenth, Rue Daunou, 1910 depicts the celebration of Bastille Day from the artist's viewpoint on top of the Hôtel l’Empire in Paris. The street below is thronged with automobiles and people, while the flags of France, Belgium, and the United States are being flown on various buildings.
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 ...