Bastille Day Celebrations

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy watches the parade
Michel Spingler / AP

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Carla Bruni-Sarkozy watches the parade. Bastille Day commemorates the storming of the Bastille prison in Paris in 1789, regarded as the start of the French Revolution.

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