How does france celebrate thier national holiday?
They have Bastille Day, with fireworks and everything you are used to seeing in America for th 4th of July. It’s celebrated on July 14. Festivities are held the morning of 14 July, the largest on the Champs-Élysées avenue in Paris in front of the President of the Republic. The parade opens with cadets from the (agatha) École Polytechnique, Saint-Cyr, École Navale, and so forth, then other infantry troops, then motorised troops; aviation of the Patrouille de France flies above. 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. Traditionally, the students of the École Polytechnique set up some form of joke. The president used to give an interview to members
