France Celebrates Bastille Day
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From Rafale fighters to Reaper drones, here’s the full list of aircraft and helicopters flying in the 2025 Bastille Day military parade.
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
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Bastille Day is coming up, and the St. Louis Art Museum is celebrating it — and its hugely popular exhibit of French automobiles, fashion and design from 1919-1939 — with specialty cocktails, free admission to the exhibit and live music by Joe Park and the Hot Club of St. Louis and Elsie Parker and the Poor People of Paris. By Daniel Neman