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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.
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.
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 ...
The national day: Bastille Day (celebrated on 14 July) The Gallic rooster; The lictor's fasces emblem; The Great Seal of France; Bleuet de France, 2013 version. Other French symbols include: The cockade of France; The letters "RF", standing for République Française (French Republic) The National Order of the Legion of Honour and the National ...
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 ...
cameronparkins/Flickr CelebratiJuly 14th is Bastille Day, the the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille in Paris, which precipitated the French Revolution. Think Independence Day in America, but
The Fête de la Paix was held during that year's Exposition Universelle, which together marked France's recovery after the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune. The holiday was moved to 14 July in 1880 to become Bastille Day. The painting is held by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. [1] [2]
BASTILLE DAY ARRIVAL. The torch is to arrive on the streets of Paris on July 14 — hardly surprising, considering it's Bastille Day, France’s national day.