This year, the traditional Eiffel Tower fireworks display, normally launched on July 14 at nightfall, will not take place on the day of the Bastille Day 2026 ... but rather on the eve. The reason? To ...

In France, the national holiday is celebrated on July 14, 2026. Normally, the Louvre Museum offers free admission by reservation. However, July 14 falls on a Tuesday this year, the museum’s regular ...

PARIS (AP) — Paris hosted an extra-special guest for France’s national holiday Sunday — the Olympic flame lighting up the city’s grandiose military parade for Bastille Day. Just 12 days before the ...

PARIS (AP) — French fighter jets trailed red-white-and-blue smoke over Paris monuments, families held picnics and firefighters hosted holiday balls around France to celebrate Bastille Day on Friday, a ...

France is celebrating its national holiday Friday with whizzing warplanes and a grand Bastille Day parade in Paris — and with more than 100,000 police deployed around the country to prevent a new ...

Illustration of the storming of the Bastille prison, in an event that has come to be seen as the start of the French Revolution, 14th July 1789. Illustration of the storming of the Bastille prison, in ...

PARIS (AP) — Swooping warplanes, axe-carrying warriors, a drone light show over the Eiffel Tower and fireworks in nearly every French town — it must be Bastille Day. France celebrated its biggest ...

PARIS — Fighter jets roared over Paris on Sunday as the annual Bastille Day celebrations coincided with the arrival of the Olympic flame here 12 days before the start of the Games. This year’s parade ...

France has invited European states in Ukraine's "coalition of the willing" to attend its July 14 Bastille Day celebrations, ...