Today, July 14, is Bastille Day. It is the anniversary of the day in 1789 when French commoners stormed the Bastille prison fortress in Paris in a brazen challenge to the monarchy, marking the ...

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PARIS — France celebrated its national holiday Friday 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 ...

PARIS — The City of Light decked itself out in red, white and blue on Bastille Day for the yearly military parade and fireworks show that commemorates the French Revolution and the history of the ...

Mid-July welcomes a sprinkle of France’s own red, white and blue across Dallas-Fort Worth, thanks to the country’s own independence day. Bastille Day commemorates the storming of the Bastille prison ...