US EditionFrance Celebrates Bastille Day with Troops, Tanks, Aircraft, Fireworks
PARIS, FRANCE, JUL 14 – France honored its revolutionary origins with a parade featuring 7,000 participants and special military and diplomatic guests, highlighting national security concerns, officials said.
- France celebrated Bastille Day on July 14, 2025, with a large military parade along the Champs-Élysées in Paris featuring troops, horses, tanks, and 102 warplanes and helicopters.
- The parade marked the anniversary of the 1789 attack on the Bastille fortress, a pivotal event that triggered the French Revolution and represents France’s commitment to democracy and national unity.
- Indonesia was the event's special guest, with 451 soldiers and 200 traditional drummers marching to mark 85 years of diplomatic relations and expected military equipment purchases.
- President Macron warned that the level of threat to freedom has reached its highest point since the end of World War II, highlighting the resurgence of nuclear dangers and multiple ongoing conflicts, while honoring Fousseynou Samba Ciss, who saved six people from a recent fire, as a distinguished guest.
- The celebration featured tight security, the relighting of the eternal flame at the Arc de Triomphe, and calls to strengthen European defense and support Ukraine amid growing global threats.
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France celebrates National Day with grandeur in Bangkok, marking 340 years of ties with Siam
The French Embassy in Thailand hosted a grand reception at the Eastin Grand Hotel Phayathai, Bangkok, on Monday evening to commemorate France's National Day, observed annually on July 14. This year's celebration held added significance, marking 340 years since the first historic contact between Siam and France, and 169 years of formal diplomatic relations.
What has big, beautiful Bastille Day ever done for us?
Somewhat like today's combined NATO powers, France's Kings Louis XIV and XV had squandered far too much of their nation's treasure on foreign wars. Although Ursula von der Leyen, Kaja Kallas, Zelensky, Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron will have a gay old-time watching the studs of the French Foreign Legion swagger their way down the Champs-Élysées this July 14th, it does raise the question as to why France and the world bothers with this annual …
Videos/Pics: France celebrates Bastille Day with major military parade
France celebrated Bastille Day on Monday with a major military parade and military jet flyovers in Paris. The country’s Bastille Day celebrations are also expected to feature fireworks and a drone light show over the Eiffel Tower. According to Euro News, roughly 7,000 people were expected to march or ride in Monday’s Bastille Day military parade on Champs-Élysées avenue in Paris. The outlet noted that Bastille Day, which is France’s most promine…
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Today, July 14th, is Bastille Day in France, and it is always a day of celebration. The day is generally considered to mark the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789, when the Bourbon monarchy was overthrown. The revolution took place in several stages, but it can be said that after July 14th there was no turning back. The Bastille was a fortress in Paris that housed...
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