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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.
The Bastille Day military parade is the French military parade that has been held in the morning, ... at the ceremonies for Bastille Day in Marseille, 2012.
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 ...
Parade at the Victory Day in Istanbul United States presidential inaugural parade held in Washington D.C. A marching contingent during the Republic Day Parade from India Gate, in New Delhi Saint-Cyr cadets at the Bastille Day military parade on the Champs-Élysées 4th Carabinieri Mounted Regiment at the military parade of Festa della Repubblica 2007
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 ...
Bastille Day commemorates the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789, a key event in the French Revolution. ... France celebrated Bastille Day on Saturday with a colorful military parade in Paris ...
What does Bastille Day celebrate? On July 14, 1789, revolutionaries stormed the Bastille fortress and prison in Paris, heralding the start of the French Revolution and the end of the monarchy. The holiday is central to the French calendar, with concerts and parties across the country.
France paid tribute on Tuesday to the elite armed units which intervened to end sieges after January's deadly attacks by Islamist militants, showcasing the secretive forces for the first time in ...