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 ...

France’s highest court has blocked a key part of a contentious farming law that would have brought back a banned pesticide.

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.

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 is celebrating its biggest national holiday, Bastille Day, with military jet flyovers, a drone light show over the Eiffel Tower and fireworks in almost every city. Around 7,000 people are ...

France’s Bastille Day parade meets the Olympic torch relay in an exceptional year Col. Thibault Vallette, of the Cadre Noir de Saumur, carries the Olympic torch during the Bastille Day parade ...

France's President Emmanuel Macron, center, and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi meet WWII veteran Henri Becker during the annual Bastille Day military parade, in Paris, Friday, July 14, 2023.

France celebrated its national holiday with whizzing warplanes and a grand Bastille Day parade in Paris — and with more than 100,000 police deployed around the country to prevent a new outbreak ...

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.

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.

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 ...