Following its construction, the Arc de Triomphe became the rallying point of French troops parading after successful military campaigns and for the annual Bastille Day Military Parade.

* Bastille Day Military Parade

The Champs-Élysées decorated with flags for Bastille Day

Horseman of the French Republican Guard during the 2007 Bastille Day Military Parade | military parade on the Champs-Élysées.

Bastille Day is the name given in English-speaking countries to the French National Day, which is celebrated on the 14th of July each year.

The Bastille Day Military Parade opens with cadets from the École Polytechnique, Saint-Cyr, École Navale, and so forth, then other infantry troops, then motorized troops ; aircraft of the Patrouille de France aerobatics team fly above.

In recent times, it has become customary to invite units from France's allies to the parade ; in 2004 during the centenary of the Entente Cordiale, British troops ( the band of the Royal Marines, the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, Grenadier Guards and King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery ) led the Bastille Day parade in Paris for the first time, with the Red Arrows flying overhead.

The Bastille Day Military Parade is the French military parade that has been held on the morning of 14 July each year in Paris since 1880.

Budapest, Hungary ; Bastille Day fireworks

:* Liège celebrates the Bastille Day each year since the end of the First World War, as Liège was decorated by the Légion d ' Honneur for its unexpected resistance during the Battle of Liège.

:* Baltimore has a large Bastille Day celebration each year at Petit Louis in the Roland Park area of Baltimore City.

:* Chicago has hosted a variety of Bastille Day celebrations in a number of locations in the city, including Navy Pier and Oz Park.

:* New York City has numerous Bastille Day celebrations each July, including Bastille Day on 60th Street hosted by the French Institute Alliance Française between Fifth and Lexington Avenues on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Bastille Day on Smith Street in Brooklyn, and Bastille Day in Tribeca.

* Bastille Day Military Parade

* The 2011 Bastille Day Military Parade, video broadcast by the French Minstry of Defence

In 2002, United States Military Academy ( West Point ) cadets opened the Bastille Day Military Parade, Paris, France, as guest troops.

Color Guard of the 1st Fusiliers Marins | Naval Fusiliers of the French Navy at the 2008 Bastille Day Military Parade, Paris.

* Bastille Day Military Parade

The 1st infantry regiment of the Republican Guard during Bastille Day Military Parade | Bastille day.

File: Brasilian army band 01. JPG | Brazilian Marines band at the 2005 Bastille Day Military Parade

Image: Polytechnique 1er carre Bastille Day 2008. jpg | The cadets of Polytechnique in the Bastille Day Military Parade

Polytechnique flag guard on Bastille Day Military Parade 2008.

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The colonel, director of the Academy, during the Bastille Day Military Parade.

Ville de Nancy and République dirigible s at the 1909 Bastille Day Military Parade.

École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr | EMIA cadets in parade uniform, during the Bastille Day Military Parade.

* Bastille Day Military Parade

École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr | Saint-Cyr cadets at the Bastille Day Military Parade on the Champs-Élysées

It is also annually converted into a massive haunted house during the Halloween season and because of its resemblance to the Bastille, it has become the focus of Philadelphia ’ s Bastille Day celebration.

In the wake of the 11 July dismissal of Jacques Necker, the people of Paris, fearful that they and their representatives would be attacked by the royal military, and seeking to gain ammunition and gunpowder for the general populace, stormed the Bastille, a fortress-prison in Paris which had often held people jailed on the basis of lettres de cachet, arbitrary royal indictments that could not be appealed.

The attack on the Bastille in the French Revolution-though afterwards remembered mainly for the release of the handful of prisoners incarcerated there-was to considerable degree motivated by the structure being a Royal citadel in the midst of revolutionary Paris.

The first year of the Revolution saw members of the Third Estate proclaiming the Tennis Court Oath in June, the assault on the Bastille in July, the passage of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in August, and an epic march on Versailles that forced the royal court back to Paris in October.

At the same time the people of Paris revolted, famously storming the Bastille prison on 14 July 1789.

* 1789 – French Revolution: citizens of Paris storm the Bastille.

This was an early conception, and in early times the order in question was simply verbal ; some letters patent of Henry III of France in 1576 state that François de Montmorency was " prisoner in our castle of the Bastille in Paris by verbal command " of the late king Charles IX.

* July 14 – The French Revolution ( 1789 – 1799 ) begins: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille and free seven prisoners.

The piece was first performed in Los Angeles at Disney Hall on 3 separate evenings in 2004, one act at a time, then given complete performances at the Bastille Opera in Paris in April and November 2005.

* Hugues Aubriot founds the Bastille in Paris.

* Construction of the Bastille is completed in Paris.

Paris was besieged by riots at the news, which culminated in the storming of the Bastille on 14 July.

On 21 July 1789, after receiving news of the Storming of the Bastille in Paris, a crowd of people stormed the Strasbourg city hall, forcing the city administrators to flee and putting symbolically an end to the feudal system in Alsace.

Les Troyens was the first opera performed at the newly built Opéra Bastille in Paris on 17 March 1990 in a production claimed to be complete, but lacking the ballets.

The Bastille () was a fortress in Paris, known formally as the Bastille Saint-Antoine.

The Bastille was built to defend the eastern approach to the city of Paris from the English threat in the Hundred Years War.

Historical reconstruction showing the moat below the walls of Paris ( l ), the Bastille and the Porte Saint-Antoine ( r ) in 1420

The Bastille was built in response to a threat to Paris during the Hundred Years War between England and France.