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Bastille Day celebration in France: Show of 'unity' amid crises

France will celebrate the Bastille Day with the traditional military parade on the Champs-Élysées boulevard in Paris, under the motto "Share the Flame," meant to evoke the resistance during World War II and call for unity in the face of current crises.

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On the national holiday, also known as French National Day, the country remembers to the storming of the Bastille in 1789, which is seen as the symbolic beginning of the French Revolution.