Nine Alpha jets from the French Air Force Patrouille de France release trails of red, white and blue smoke as they fly over the Champs Elysees avenue during the Bastille Day military parade in Paris yesterday. Held each year on July 14, it is the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille fortress in Paris by revolutionaries in 1789, the symbolic starting point of the movement that led to the first French republic.
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