France celebrates Bastille Day with fireworks and marches through Paris

France celebrates its biggest national day today, Bastille Day, with military jet flyovers, a drone light show over the Eiffel Tower and fireworks in almost every city.

About 7,000 people march on horses or in armored vehicles along the cobblestones of the iconic Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris, with events planned across the country.

The holiday marks the day when Parisians stormed the Bastille fortress and prison on July 14, 1789, the event that sparked the French Revolution, ultimately overthrowing the monarchy.

In the two centuries that followed, France saw the rise and fall of Napoleon's empire, followed by uprisings and two world wars, before settling into the present-day Fifth Republic founded in 1958.

Bastille Day has become a central holiday in modern France, celebrating democracy and national pride. /CNA

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