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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.
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Bastille and Day
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.
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.
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.
:* 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 and Military
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.
The 1st infantry regiment of the Republican Guard during Bastille Day Military Parade | Bastille day.
Image: Polytechnique 1er carre Bastille Day 2008. jpg | The cadets of Polytechnique in the Bastille Day Military Parade
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École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr | EMIA cadets in parade uniform, during the Bastille Day Military Parade.
École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr | Saint-Cyr cadets at the Bastille Day Military Parade on the Champs-Élysées
Bastille and Parade
The oldest and largest regular military parade in Europe is the Bastille Day Military Parade which is held each 14 July, on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, during France's national day celebrations.
The flag of the 1st Regiment of Fusiliers Marins | Naval Fusiliers at the 2008 Bastille Day Military Parade.
École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr | Saint Cyr cadets with Austrian knots on their sleeves, during the Bastille Day Military Parade
Bastille and opens
A cafe and some other businesses largely occupy the location of the fort, and the Rue Saint Antoine passes directly over it as it opens onto the roundabout of the Bastille.
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:* Milwaukee's four-day street festival begins with a " Storming of the Bastille " with a 43-foot replica of the Eiffel Tower.
On the following Bastille Day, Galois was at the head of a protest, wearing the uniform of the disbanded artillery, and came heavily armed with several pistols, a rifle, and a dagger.
On 14 July 1790, and for several days following, crowds in the Champ de Mars celebrated the anniversary of the fall of the Bastille with the Fête de la Fédération ; Talleyrand performed a mass ; participants swore an oath of " fidelity to the nation, the law, and the king "; the King and the royal family actively participated.
On 14 July 2002, during Bastille Day celebrations, Chirac survived an assassination attempt by a lone gunman with a rifle hidden in a guitar case.
Feeling a kinship with the female revolutionaries who stormed the Bastille, she said in 1908: " I have always thought that the fact that I was born on that day had some kind of influence over my life.
The defences of the Bastille were fortified in response to the English and Imperial threat during the 1550s, with a bastion constructed to the east of the fortress.
The resulting structure became known simply as the Bastille, with the eight, irregularly built towers and linking curtain walls forming a structure 223 feet ( 68 m ) wide and 121 feet ( 37 m ) deep, the walls and towers 78 feet ( 24 m ) high and 10 foot ( 3 m ) thick at their bases.
Garrisoned by a captain, a knight, eight squires and ten crossbowmen, the Bastille was encircled with ditches fed by the River Seine, and faced with stone.
The Bastille overlooked the Saint-Antoine gate, which by 1380 was a strong, square building with turrets and protected by two drawbridges of its own.
The Arsenal, a large military-industrial complex tasked with the production of cannons and other weapons for the royal armies, was established to the south of the Bastille by Francis I, and substantially expanded under Charles IX.
The Bastille was involved in the numerous wars of religion fought between Protestant and Catholic factions with support from foreign allies during the second half of the 16th century.
The Bastille was now an isolated League stronghold, with the remaining members of the League and their allies clustering around it for safety.
Louis's chief minister, Cardinal Richelieu, is credited with beginning the modern transformation of the Bastille into a more formal organ of the French state, further increasing its structured use as a state prison.
Influenced by the events of the Fronde, Louis XIV rebuilt the area around the Bastille, erecting a new archway at the Porte Saint-Antoine in 1660, and then ten years later pulling down the city walls and their supporting fortifications to replace them with an avenue of trees, later called Louis XIV's boulevard, which passed around the Bastille.
Louis XIV made extensive use of the Bastille as a prison, with 2, 320 individuals being detained there during his reign, approximately 43 a year.
Louis used the Bastille to hold not just suspected rebels or plotters but also those who had simply irritated him in some way, such as differing with him on matters of religion.
While in the Bastille, de Launay fell in love with a fellow prisoner, the Chevalier de Ménil ; she also infamously received an invitation of marriage from the Chevalier de Maisonrouge, the governor's deputy, who had fallen in love with her himself.
The ditch around the Bastille, now largely dry, supported a 36 foot ( 11 m ) high stone wall with a wooden walkway for the use of the guards, known as " la ronde ", or the round.
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