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Added on the 15/07/2016 19:00:00 - Copyright : RT Ruptly EN
At least 80 people died when a truck driver deliberately drove into crowds celebrating Bastille Day in the southern French city of Nice yesterday.
The planes of the Patrouille de France fly over Paris, leaving a trail of smoke in the colours of the French flag for the Bastille Day parade, as the country celebrates its national day. IMAGES
The Olympic flame is escorted down the Avenue Foch in Paris by the riders of the Cadre Noir de Saumur and carried by their leader, Thibaut Vallette, gold medallist in Rio in 2016, before being passed on to a young athlete during the Bastille Day parade. IMAGES
French troops take part in the Bastille Day military parade in Paris. This year, the ceremony is in a reduced format and took a different route due to the upcoming Olympic Games. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron is transported along avenue Foch in the "command car" during the Bastille Day military parade in Paris before greeting members of his government and the army. IMAGES
"When the century is dark, always, the French make France rise again," says French President Emmanuel Macron in Bayeux, Normandy, on the final day of commemorations for the D-Day landings in World War II. IMAGES