French President Emmanuel Macron speaks to the army leaders at the Hotel le Brienne, Sunday, July 13, 2025, ahead of the ...

At France's 2017 Bastille Day events, U.S. President Donald Trump, as the guest of honor, was so impressed he ordered a military parade in Washington for America's July 4 celebrations.

Why Bastille Day is a big deal Parisians stormed the Bastille fortress and prison on July 14, 1789, a spark for the French Revolution that overthrew the monarchy. In the ensuing two centuries ...

Bastille Day has become a central moment for modern France, celebrating democratic freedoms and national pride, a mélange of revolutionary spirit and military prowess.

The French National Day (Fête nationale) recalls the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison in Paris on July 14, 1789, to ...

France is celebrating its national holiday Friday with a grand Bastille Day parade in Paris. President Macron is also deploying 130,000 police around the country to prevent a new outbreak of ...

France France bans fireworks sales ahead of Bastille Day as country reels from anti-police riots French government bans 'sale, carrying, transport and use of pyrotechnic articles' before Bastille ...

Bastille Day in France has long been synonymous with grand fireworks displays over towns and villages, as dancing crowds celebrate their nation’s revolutionary birth. But firework shows have ...

France celebrates Bastille Day Teen’s shooting, unrest cast shadows on country’s festivities July 15, 2023 at 4:04 a.m. by YOUCEF BOUNAB and ANGELA CHARLTON The Associated Press ...

TOPSHOT – Alphajet aircraft of the ‘Patrouille de France’ fly over L’Arc de Triomphe during the annual Bastille Day military parade on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris on July 14, 2021.

French people refer to the day as “Quatorze Juillet” (14 July), or “La Fête Nationale” – it’s called Bastille Day outside of the country but never in France itself.

France often showcases international partners on Bastille Day. Russia's war in Ukraine -- central to last year's Bastille Day celebrations -- echoed in this year's events as well.