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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 ...
An official map of the Storm the Bastille 5K route. The race takes place on Thursday, July 11. ... Bastille Day commemorates the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, a violent uprising that ...
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 ...
Usually, the parade travels from the Napoleon-era Arc de Triomphe to the Concorde plaza, where France’s last king and queen were beheaded. This year, Concorde has been transformed into a huge Olympic venue for breakdancing, skateboarding and BMX. So the parade route heads to the Bois de Boulogne park on the city’s edge instead.
PARIS (AP) — Paris hosted 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 French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games , the torch relay joined up with thousands of soldiers, sailors ...
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
Up until that point, the parade had been peaceful, but tragedy struck when the last protesters reached Place de la Nation. Within a few minutes, dozens of shots were fired at the MTLD procession. Following the massacre, demonstrations on May 1 and July 14 were prohibited by the authorities for a period of 14 years, until the parade on May 1, 1968.
France celebrated Bastille Day on Saturday with a colorful military parade in Paris presided over by President Emmanuel Macron, and it was hoping the party would continue later on Sunday when the ...