A huge fireworks display is held around the Eiffel Tower to mark Bastille Day, the French National Day commemorating the Storming of the Bastille in 1789. We use cookies to give you the best online experience. Strictly necessary cookies are on by default. Additional cookies are off by default.

For the special public occasion, Brigitte Macron wore a white coatdress with black lines added throughout and black buttons running down the front placket opposite a line of black. The black details on the coatdress included lining on the sharp collar, cuffs and at the waist, with outlined hip pockets featuring subtle black bows.

The Paris event includes flyovers by fighter jets, trailing red, white and blue smoke.

Thousands of Parisians stormed the Bastille, a medieval fortress and prison, in Paris on 1789. The Bastille symbolised the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs against their subjects. The event marked the

On Saturday, July 14, 1945, Versailles was celebrating as it had not done in years. But the carefree spirit of some clashed with the return of deportees and the restrictions still in place.