Brigitte Macron opted for a streamlined, contemporary style in a black and white coatdress for the annual Bastille Day celebrations and military parade in Paris on Monday. France’s first lady joined her husband, French President Emmanuel Macron ...

Paris closed major roads for the Bastille Day parade on July 14, 2025. Indonesian President Prabowo attended as an honored guest alongside Macron.

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

Ahead of the Club World Cup final between Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea on Sunday in the United States, the police are mobilizing 11,500 officers in the Greater Paris area to prevent possible riots.

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