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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 ...
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 ...
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.
On the evening of 14 July 2016, a 19-tonne cargo truck was deliberately driven into crowds of people celebrating Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, resulting in the deaths of 86 people [n 1] and injuring 434 others. [4] The driver was Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a Tunisian living in France.
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 ...
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 ...
Firemen of the Paris brigade, Bastille Day 2008 military parade on the Champs-Élysées, Paris. The BSPP consists of 8,550 personnel with 81 stations and facilities who conduct 1,200 operations daily. 463 pieces of equipment 130 Pumpers; 63 Aerial Devices; 66 Ambulances; 71 Command and Patrol vehicles; 133 Special Engines Fireboats; All terrain ...
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 ...