Paris hosted an extra-special guest for France’s national holiday on July 14 — the Olympic flame lighting up the city’s grandiose military parade for Bastille Day. Just 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games, the torch relay joined up with thousands of soldiers, sailors, rescuers and medics marching in Paris beneath roaring fighter jets. …
PARIS — The war in Ukraine has even shaken up Bastille Day, a powerful political, historical and symbolic event in France. In a Bastille Day nationally televised interview, French President Emmanuel Macron warned his compatriots that the worst war that Europe has faced in decades “will continue” and defended Europe’s sanctions strategy. The opening of this year’s Bastille Day parade …
