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Col. Thibault Vallette, of the Cadre Noir de Saumur, carries the Olympic torch during the Bastille Day parade Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

France’s Bastille Day parade meets the Olympic torch relay in an exceptional year

By Angela Charlton - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron reviews the Republican Guards during the Bastille Day parade Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

France’s Bastille Day parade meets the Olympic torch relay in an exceptional year

Associated Press

Servicemen of the Navy Infantry pose on the Champs-Elysees avenue in front of the Arc de Triomphe before the Bastille Day military parade Friday, July 14, 2023 in Paris. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be the guest of honor at the annual Bastille Day parade. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, Pool)

France celebrates Bastille Day with pomp, a tribute to India and extra police to prevent new unrest

By Angela Charlton and Youcef Bounab - Associated Press

Soldiers of Bulgaria stand on the Champs Elysees avenue during a rehearsal for the Bastille Day parade in Paris, France, Monday, July 11, 2022. Paris is preparing for a big Bastille Day parade later this week, a military show on the Champs-Elysees avenue that this year will honor war-torn Ukraine and include troops from countries on NATO's eastern flank: Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Czechia, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Ukraine plays special role in France’s Bastille Day parade

By Jade Le Deley - Associated Press

Members of the Republican Guard march in formation on the Champs Elysees prior to the Bastille Day parade in Paris, Wednesday July 14, 2021. Bastille Day is the French national holiday that commemorates the beginning of the French Revolution on July 14, 1789. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)

France cautiously celebrates Bastille Day, clouded by the coronavirus

By Angela Charlton - Associated Press

A firefighter wears a face mask with the colors of the French flag, prior to the Bastille Day parade Tuesday, July 14, 2020 on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris. France are honoring nurses, ambulance drivers, supermarket cashiers and others on its biggest national holiday Tuesday. Bastille Day's usual grandiose military parade in Paris is being redesigned this year to celebrate heroes of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, Pool)

France says ‘merci’ to virus heroes on poignant Bastille Day

By ANGELA CHARLTON and ARNO PEDRAM - Associated Press

U.S. President Donald Trump salutes as he watches with his wife Melania Trump the traditional Bastille Day military parade on the Champs Elysees, in Paris, Friday, July 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Michel Euler) ** FILE **

Donald Trump, first lady Melania review troops at Bastille Day parade in Paris

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron shake hands at the conclusion of a joint news conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Thursday, July 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

A big Bastille Day for America

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump board Air Force One, Wednesday, July 12, 2017, in Andrews Air Force Base, Md., en route to Paris. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Donald Trump seeks consensus with France despite differences

By Vivian Salama - Associated Press

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump board Air Force One, Wednesday, July 12, 2017, in Andrews Air Force Base, Md., en route to Paris. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

The Latest: Trumps, Macrons dine high above Paris

Associated Press

Flowers were placed on the Promenade des Anglais last year at the scene of the truck attack in Nice that killed 86 people celebrating France's Bastille Day. The massacre was a kind of watershed moment that was followed by a macabre wave of similar low-tech terrorist strikes in several Western European nations. (Associated Press/File)

Nice’s Bastille Day muted by terror attack memories

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this July 7, 2017, file photo, France's President Emmanuel Macron talks with U.S. President Donald Trump after the family photo on the first day of the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

Trump heads to Paris for Bastille Day

By VIVIAN SALAMA - Associated Press

In this July 7, 2017, file photo, France's President Emmanuel Macron talks with U.S. President Donald Trump after the family photo on the first day of the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

Trump storms Paris for Bastille Day

By VIVIAN SALAMA - Associated Press

A woman puts flowers near the scene where a truck mowed through revelers in Nice, southern France, Friday, July 15, 2016. A large truck mowed through revelers gathered for Bastille Day fireworks in Nice, killing more than 80 people and sending people fleeing into the sea as it bore down for more than a mile along the Riviera city's famed waterfront promenade. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Nice reels as officials probe deadly Bastille Day truck terror attack

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Forensic officers work at the scene of the truck attack that targeted Bastille Day revelers in Nice, France, on Friday. (Associated Press)

Truck crashes into Bastille Day crowd in Nice, France

By Guy Taylor and Victor Morton - The Washington Times

`Prima Donna’ has US premiere at Brooklyn Academy

By RONALD BLUM - Associated Press