British troops have led France’s annual Bastille Day parade for the first time to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Entente Cordiale, a treaty which ended centuries of hostility between the two countries.
Thousands lined Paris’ major boulevard, the Champs-Elysées, to witness the Wednesday parade led by members of British Queen Elizabeth’s royal guard and participate in Bastille Day festivities.
Bastille Day commemorates the day angry crowds stormed the Bastille prison in Paris in 1789, sparking the revolution against the French monarchy.
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