France celebrates Bastille Day

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Bastille Day is the National Day of France, celebrated on July 14 every year and called

Fête nationale

in France. It is the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789, a major event of the French Revolution.

See some of the celebrations that took place in France Wednesday.

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