(14 Jul 2025)
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Paris – 14 July 2025
1. Wide of French Foreign Legion descending Champs Elysees during Bastille Day Parade
2. Wide of helicopters flying above Champs Elysees
3. Various of military vehicles driving along Champs Elysees during parade
4. Wide of motorcycles
5. Mid of Indonesian President Probowo Sabianto saying goodbye to French Defense Minister Sebastien Le Cornu
6. Mid of Macron and Le Cornu before departing after parade
STORYLINE:
France celebrated its biggest holiday, Bastille Day, on Monday with 7,000 people marching, on horseback or riding armored vehicles along the cobblestones of the Champs-Elysees, the most iconic avenue in Paris.
Parisians stormed the Bastille fortress and prison on July 14, 1789, a spark for the French Revolution that overthrew the monarchy. In the ensuing two centuries, France saw Napoleon’s empire rise and fall, more uprisings and two world wars before settling into today’s Fifth Republic, established in 1958.
Bastille Day has become a central moment for modern France, celebrating democratic freedoms and national pride, a mélange of revolutionary spirit and military prowess.
The spectacle began on the ground, with French President Emmanuel Macron reviewing the troops and relighting the eternal flame beneath the Arc de Triomphe.
Every year, France hosts a special guest for Bastille Day, and this year it’s Indonesia, with President Prabowo Subianto representing the world’s largest Muslim country, which also a major Asian economic and military player.
Indonesian troops, including 200 traditional drummers, marched in Monday’s parade, and Indonesia is expected to confirm new purchases of Rafale fighter jets and other French military equipment during the visit.
Subianto, who was accused of rights abuses under Indonesia’s prior dictatorship, will be treated to a special holiday dinner at the Elysée Palace.
Finnish troops serving in the U.N. force in Lebanon, and Belgian and Luxembourg troops serving in a NATO force in Romania also paraded through Paris, reflecting the increasingly international nature of the event.
Production by Jeffrey Schaeffer
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