Bastille Day: Paris celebrates with record-breaking parade, Eiffel Tower fireworks display

From Global News.

France celebrated Bastille Day, the nation’s biggest holiday, on Monday.

In Paris, the annual celebratory parade featured fighter jets, combat vehicles and a record 7,000 military personnel, who marched down the famous Champs-Elysees.

The holiday marks the Storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 — the event that sparked the French Revolution.

Later, tens of thousands rung out the evening with a grandiose fireworks show that lit up the sky around the Eiffel Tower.

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