French parade military muscle on nation’s birthday

France’s Bastille Day celebration of the 1789 revolution that led to a republic has been combined with a commemoration of World War One.

In Paris, President François Hollande’s motorcade left from the Arc de Triomphe. Under the arch lies the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier; French military deaths in WWI totalled 1.4 million. Including other nations, there were a dozen times as many.

‘Poilus’ marched down the celebrated Champs Elysee in hundred-year-old uniforms. Others bore flags and traditional…
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