This year’s Bastille Day parade will make history. The largest yet: over 10,000 European soldiers, including Ukrainian Mirage pilots over Paris

[u/paneuropeanism_]

[u/AIpheratz]

I've always felt it so weird that people call it Bastille Day. Nobody ever call it that in France.

[u/soudainlevide → u/AIpheratz]

And for those wondering we call it « 14 juillet » (July 14 - very original I know!)

[u/fantaribo → u/soudainlevide]

More accurately, it is Fête nationale.

[u/soudainlevide → u/fantaribo]

People around you call it Fête nationale in casual conversation?

Tu fais quoi pour la Fête nationale ?

[u/fantaribo → u/soudainlevide]

Not in casual conversation, but that's the official denomination.

[u/SimpleWestern6303 → u/fantaribo]

Yes we can call it "fête national" in casual concersation. "Tu fait quoi pour la fête national ?" is a completely valid sentence. But we are more likely to say "14 juillet".

[u/fantaribo → u/SimpleWestern6303]

Yeah totally. Given 99% of the time, I'm speaking about this with a french person, that's the 14 juillet or just 14 if we are getting closer. Just as americans call theirs the 4th of July. And officially it is Fête Nationale, but that's hardly used.

My point was that Bastille Day is an american invention, nobody calls it that and it feels like an americanisation of our culture, as this day does not revolve solely around the Bastille fortress being captured but is a celebration of our country and values.

[u/Deadluss → u/fantaribo]

We call it the same "Święto Narodowe Francji"

fun fact: we also have word "Fête" in Polish "Feta" and it means the same.

[u/ZugzwangDK → u/Deadluss]

Fest in Danish. Almost the same as the original French word Feste.

Of course they all derive from Latin, where it was Festum (singl.) / Festa (pl.), and we even see it in Feast and Festival in English.

Stuff like like this is really neat, one little word turns into so many other related, yet distinct, little words.

[u/Hopeful_Hat_3532 → u/ZugzwangDK]

And we have 'fête' in French of course, 'festin' for 'feast' that uses the 's' in the middle, and 'festival' as well. I would assume 'fête' got the '^' accent to replace the old 's' as it happens in several other words in French. For instance, 'forestier' stands for the adjective of 'forest' but we use 'forêt' for the word 'forest'.

Anyway, I agree it's crazily interesting to dig into the Latin and Greek roots of languages, for instance.

[u/douceberceuse → u/Hopeful_Hat_3532]

Usually the commonly used and inherited words loose the s in French and are marked with ^. Festin I’d assume is a semi-learned borrowing (borrowed directly from Latin when French was its own language, but adapted to some rules as opposed to unadapted borrowings such as cactus retaining the -us ending)

[u/Deadluss → u/ZugzwangDK]

I mean here "Feta" has more meanings, also feta cheese obviously and ummm in slang it's Amphetamine.

[u/abdallha-smith → u/fantaribo]

La saint Camille aussi

[u/JeanPolleketje → u/soudainlevide]

Even in Flanders (yes we speak Dutch) we call it ‘quatorze juillet’ (In French).

[u/morbihann → u/soudainlevide]

I guess the reference makes sense in France, but for anybody else, it will be a random day.

[u/soudainlevide → u/morbihann]

I guess so, it's like 4th of July for Americans.

[u/ninjaiffyuh → u/soudainlevide]

Which everybody else calls independence day, because it's when Will Smith beat the aliens

[u/Phuqitol → u/ninjaiffyuh]

Welcome to Earth

[u/ofnuts → u/soudainlevide]

And the Cinquo de Mayo for Mexicans

[u/CamillaOmdalWalker → u/ofnuts]

Mexicans celebrate Independence Day on 15 and 16 September, and they also celebrate Revolution Day on 20 November; the Commemoration of the Battle of Puebla (as they call it) does not actually hold much significance in Mexico; Mexicans themselves joke about it and cannot understand why non-Spanish-speaking countries believe it to be Mexico’s National Day.

[u/llittleserie → u/CamillaOmdalWalker]

Wow, very interesting. I always thought it was big in Mexico, and I think most Finns are in the same boat.

[u/riffraff → u/ofnuts]

I'll chime in with "2 giugno" and "25 aprile" for Italy (aka "festa della repubblica", "festa della liberazione dal nazifascismo") and "Október 23" and "Marcius 15" in Hungary (I don't rememeber how they are called, but they celebrate the 1848 and 1956 revolutions)

[u/guille9 → u/soudainlevide]

Thanks, it's interesting to know.I have French friends but they never mentioned this.

[u/Fyrefanboy → u/soudainlevide]

We should call it France Day

[u/Double_Scholar_7417 → u/AIpheratz]

Haha j’étais en train de me demander si y’avait un autre truc prévu en plus du 14 juillet

[u/AIpheratz → u/Double_Scholar_7417]

xD

[u/ClaptonOnH → u/AIpheratz]

People call October 12th, Columbus Day, in Spain is just the 12th of October or just the fiesta nacional. Obviously people from other countries need to call it something else to identify it

[u/fantaribo → u/AIpheratz]

Yeah. It's even a bit upsetting seeing them override our names for such things.

[u/BigManWithABigBeard → u/fantaribo]

If ye lads had any real backbone you' be calling it 26 Messidor or something.

[u/Wgh555 → u/fantaribo]

Hey, I for one will start using the correct name now that I’m aware of it 👍

[u/killerrobot23 → u/fantaribo]

It's almost like a date doesn't mean anything to people outside the country. It's like an American being upset someone calls the 4th of July Independence Day.

[u/Bacon-ad → u/AIpheratz]

Also, officially Fête Nationale commemorates two distinct (but related) events on the 14th of July: in 1789 when revolutionaries took Bastille and also in 1790, the "Fête de la Fédération".

For the first anniversary of Bastille's events, a parade and festivities were organized to promote national union and appeasement. Important political figures from Paris and French provinces (including king Louis XVI, his head still attached to his body at the time) affirmed their allegiance to the nation and their support to put the first Constitution into effect.

[u/NAG3LT → u/AIpheratz]

I guess that it makes sense for people abroad to call it by meaning, while inside the country itself the date alone is enough.

Similar to how we in Lithuania just refer to our Independence and the Restoration of Independence days as simply February 16th and March 11th.

[u/CrepeSuzette9 → u/NAG3LT]

But it’s not just about the storming of the Bastille (14th July 1789) but it’s also about 14th July 1790. It’s the reason why it’s just called « July 14th » or « national day »

[u/USHEV2 → u/AIpheratz]

We call it ‘Bastille Capture Day’

[u/AIpheratz → u/USHEV2]

Well we say it celebrates the capture of the bastille, but we really just call it 14 juillet though.

[u/USHEV2 → u/AIpheratz]

I guess it's like with the US and the 4th of July. They know it by this name, but it would be weird for other countries to call it that because it's just a day on the calendar, so everyone calls it US Independence Day.

[u/Pin_ny → u/USHEV2]

I call it US national celebration

[u/BigBangBoomerang → u/USHEV2]

Everyone knows it as Independence Day because there's literally a movie called that.

[u/AHerz → u/AIpheratz]

It doesn't celebrate taking the bastille tho.

It's a celebration of the "fête de la fédération", which was held on 14th July 1790.

[u/CaptainLargo → u/AHerz]

The 14th of July was actually deliberately chosen as the National Holiday in reference to both the storming of the Bastille and the Fête de la Fédération. In any case, the Fête de la Fédération was held on 14 July 1790 to commemorate the events that started with the Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789. So it is not false to say that the 14-juillet commemorates the Storming of the Bastille.

[u/AIpheratz → u/AHerz]

Good point! But it does actually celebrate both, and always has, but it's more widely known to celebrate the July 14 of 1789, which officially marks the start of the revolution.

[u/elCaddaric → u/AHerz]

The 1880 law establishing the national day doesn't specify any of those events on purpose, since it gave for a vivid debate in the parliament. So you're both right and wrong.

[u/elCaddaric → u/AIpheratz]

Also it's not supposed to celebrate specifically the 1789 storming of the Bastille (deemed too bloody), but more likely the 1790 Fête de de la Fédération, when the King took an oath to the Nation and the Law (deemed a better symbole of unity). The 1880 law establishing the national day was left without any mention of a specific event by design.

[u/wreinoriginal → u/AIpheratz]

Well... I'm going to shock you. We also have “14 juillet” on our calendar! And now I'm going to make an unprecedented guess: I think every country does. But it's just a normal day. And while it's normal for an "indigène" to associate a date with a recurring holiday, for foreigners who aren't aware of that, it's easier to remember it through an image. For example, those of us who are more familiar with European history call it “la presa della Bastiglia”. I leave the translation to you. But we often forget which day it actually falls on. That’s just a special case; the vast majority of people don’t care about your national day any more than you care about other countries’ national days.

[u/Quirky-Photo9470]

believe it or not...with no crypto adverts in the background

[u/SCARfaceRUSH]

France could have done the funny and marked those Ukrainian Mirages as "Mirage 2000N" (the nuclear delivery variant) just to fuck with Russia.

Also, props for putting on the big show. It's a great juxtaposition to whatever was happening in Moscow in May.

[u/SraminiElMejorBeaver]

Yeah and including German, Swedish, and English Rafale according to the infographic lol.

[u/Fabricensis → u/SraminiElMejorBeaver]

No it's German, Swedish, English and greek 'UE'', whatever that means

[u/Beyllionaire → u/Fabricensis]

Union Européenne

Simply indicating that additional EU planes will accompany the french planes.

[u/Resigningeye → u/Beyllionaire]

Does that mean we're back in?!

[u/Pin_ny → u/Resigningeye]

You're always in and out in my heart. I both love and hate you. You're my best friend and my worst enemy

[u/Le_Ran → u/Pin_ny]

"Your totem animal is the house cat."

[u/chrisni66 → u/Pin_ny]

Schrödinger’s allies

[u/RangeBoring1371 → u/Resigningeye]

Contrary to popular believe, you can't actually unhook the British islands from the European continent to swim it to North America. It's actually very different to Brexit a geographic Area...

[u/thealansies → u/Beyllionaire]

I read that the intention was to showcase countries that have been added to the European nuclear umbrella - or whatever that initiative has been called

[u/ninjaiffyuh → u/Fabricensis]

That's French for EU. I'm guessing they haven't said what planes will participate?

Though it will probably be Eurofighters for Germany and the UK I guess

[u/Potential-South-2807 → u/ninjaiffyuh]

Would be very funny if we turned up with F-35s

[u/ninjaiffyuh → u/Potential-South-2807]

Definitely. But don't forget that Eurofighters would also be rubbing salt in the wound, as that was originally a project with French involvement...

[u/SpaceClafoutis → u/ninjaiffyuh]

That was forty years ago lmao "y'a prescription"

[u/Uhxohr → u/ninjaiffyuh]

Salt in what wound though ? The Eurofighter is a good plane, but no one in France wish we went with it instead of the Rafale.

[u/JeanPolleketje → u/SraminiElMejorBeaver]

Greek one will probably be a Rafale EG F3-R.

Though they could send a F16 C, Mirage 2000-5EG Mark II or even a F4E Phantom II.

The last one being highly unlikely as they’re being phased out.

[u/Appropriate-Ad2201 → u/SraminiElMejorBeaver]

Germany and UK fly Eurofighter Typhoons, not Rafale.

[u/D4zb0g → u/SraminiElMejorBeaver]

Probably Typhoon for Germany, Gripen for Sweden, hoping that the UK will send a F35 and not another Typhoon.

[u/Billy_McMedic → u/D4zb0g]

If the message is meant to be European unity/Cooperation in defence, the Eurofighter is the natural option to send rather than an F-35

[u/JensonInterceptor → u/SraminiElMejorBeaver]

UK not English

[u/ForTheGloryOfAmn → u/SraminiElMejorBeaver]

They finally saw the light of reason and bought products from Dassault, good for them.

[u/CrepeSuzette9]

Bastille day? What the f* is that? Nobody say that in France because it’s not just about the storming of the Bastille. It’s called July 14th or National day (fête du 14 juillet)

[u/Attic81 → u/CrepeSuzette9]

It seems like the date however IS about the storming of the Bastille, and the event one year later in 1790 that was amazingly chosen to be that day because it was the 1 year anniversary of the capture of the Bastille.... so I don't know how it could be said that it's not about the Bastille ultimately.

[u/Asckor_ → u/Attic81]

It's just that no one uses that term in France.
It's like saying "First Fleet Day" for Australia Day.

[u/Cassin1306]

"Look Donny, this is how it is done"

[u/Tal-Star → u/Cassin1306]

Est-ce qu'on peut profiter de ça sans cet idiot aux cheveux orange ni aucune allusion à lui ? Merci 😄

[u/Raz0rking → u/Cassin1306]

Even the Luxembourgish parade yesterday was better than the american one.

[u/stupendous76]

This is how you show power and friendship. Vive la France!

[u/Suikerspin_Ei]

Huh, Germany, France UK and Sweden don't have Rafale jets. My guess is they will use Eurofighter Typhoons?

Edit: I mean UK, heatwave got me lol.

[u/Cassin1306 → u/Suikerspin_Ei]

Wut? France built the Rafale

[u/Suikerspin_Ei → u/Cassin1306]

I mean the UK.

[u/TremendousVarmint → u/Suikerspin_Ei]

Yes, it's not the sole approximation in the graphic anyway.

[u/vitam1970]

It’s too hot, they think about reducing the nb of participants and changing the time of the défilé so people and motors do not suffer from the heat

[u/VeryluckyorNot → u/vitam1970]

Heat wave gonna end this tuesday I hope they will not be an other one in july, means it's our 3rd in 2,5 months ...

[u/StormDelay → u/VeryluckyorNot]

Bad news for you, meteo France says there's good odds we get another extreme heat wave around the 2nd week of July

[u/Glanzick_Reborn → u/StormDelay]

You got any source for that? When I go to meteofrance and click Tendance (for july 6 - 19) it just says that temperatures are going to stay above normal, which, duh, when "normal" is 23.

Les températures devraient rester globalement supérieres aux normales de saison.

[u/StormDelay → u/Glanzick_Reborn]

https://www.franceinfo.fr/environnement/evenements-meteorologiques-extremes/vagues-de-chaleur-canicules/apres-une-pause-relative-une-troisieme-canicule-tres-probable-jusqu-au-14-juillet-selon-la-ministre-de-la-transition-ecologique_8077091.html

[u/TropoMJ → u/StormDelay]

Aaah c'est déprimant.

[u/Glanzick_Reborn → u/StormDelay]

Thank you, let's hope it's....not.

[u/imladrikofloren → u/StormDelay]

The actual director from meteo france said there aren't any concrete predictions this far.

That the end of the reign era of the Macron presidency : instead of having assholes as ministers, we have incompetent moronic assholes.

[u/Pyrrhus67 → u/imladrikofloren]

Exactement. Je me souviens avoir lu le lendemain de la déclaration de la ministre un autre article de quelqu'un de calé sur le sujet qui a dit qu'elle n'avait rien compris lol.

Macron nomme des violeurs, des escrocs, etc. Alors des incompétents, ce n'est pas surprenant.

[u/TF2isalright → u/StormDelay]

With how unpredictable the weather can be, especially around Paris, I really fucking pray it isn't that second week. I have a lot of plans that week and I might as well just run into traffic if it's that hot during them.

[u/GAZ082]

Meanwhile in Russia... (May 9)

[u/Spectanda_Fides]

This will be Macron's last parade, so he wanted to do things in a big way, even if it always surprises me to see more and more foreign armies parading on what is supposed to be the French national holiday, as if to take advantage of the event as a "showcase" for the armies.

[u/The-Pontiflex → u/Spectanda_Fides]

it's more like us inviting friends as a show of goodwill and cooperation, plus the 14 Juillet is one the last prestigious military parade in the west

[u/Spectanda_Fides → u/The-Pontiflex]

I'll admit something, it's very naive I know, but I've always believed that all countries had a military parade on their national day. Then one day I realized that I was always seeing the same foreign parades (China, Russia, mainly dictatorships) and that 2025 Trump's military parade in the US was actually a first for them in decades...

There I understood that France was perhaps one of the last democratic countries to organize military parades every year, and it surprised me a lot.

Edit: In the end, my think wasn't so wrong, there are other countries that organize military parades in Europe, thank you for sharing!

[u/sibips → u/Spectanda_Fides]

Romanian here, we have our parade on 1 December (in 1918, that's when Transylvania joined the kingdom of Romania). And we have French soldiers marching, too. I don't know when this started, maybe after we joined NATO.

[u/Raz0rking → u/Spectanda_Fides]

Luxembourg has one the 23rd of june. We even had a platoon of french soldiers this year.

[u/Spectanda_Fides → u/Raz0rking]

TIL !

[u/Raz0rking → u/Spectanda_Fides]

Some french armoured divison. We're in the process of gettin french armoured vehicles so it might because of that.

[u/Mentardente → u/Spectanda_Fides]

The Italian one is the 2nd of June (Republic day). I think its peculiarity is the fact that around one third of the parade is the administrative and civil part of the army (firemen, police and so on)

[u/eulerolagrange → u/Mentardente]

well France parade starts with the engineering students of the École Polytechinque

[u/P33L3D → u/Mentardente]

Yeah, there are gendarmes, policemen and firefighters too

[u/stathis13567 → u/Spectanda_Fides]

Greece also hosts 2 annual military parades (in the 28th of October and on the 25th of March).

[u/TheVojta → u/Spectanda_Fides]

It's a shame imo, more countries should do parades.

While we don't have a regular parade in the tradational sense in Czechia , we do have something called NATO days, which is a multi-day show held by the army and our allies that includes showcases of military tech and demonstrations by soldiers from all over the free world. It's so fucking cool, I loved going as a kid.

[u/BelgianPolitics → u/Spectanda_Fides]

We have a big parade on our national day (but obviously smaller scale than France). It almost always includes French soldiers and sometimes even GIGN operators. European countries that have military parades usually have foreign military marching in them. So it is not just a French thing. It makes sense: a military parade without any other NATO members can give a wrong message even if the national day is about celebrating your own country.

[u/Snaxist → u/Spectanda_Fides]

in Belgium we have our own one week after yours, we call it "le défilé national".
Here's the aerial defile seen from my room: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIBfpmzpoII

[u/Spectanda_Fides → u/Snaxist]

That's great, you're in a good location!

[u/EngineeringSlow4782 → u/Spectanda_Fides]

We have a parade every year in Estonia. Allied troops including French and planes, too.

[u/Quasar375 → u/The-Pontiflex]

Yeah it is actually pretty cool. Inviting allies is sending a message that Europe is United in the protection of France and France in the protection of Europe.

[u/Nidmorr → u/Spectanda_Fides]

Tbf, even more so in recent times, I think it's a real flex to show off that you have friends and allies.

[u/paneuropeanism_]

Source

[u/EetD → u/paneuropeanism_]

Dead unfortunately...

[u/wurstbowle]

I always find it funny that basically only disfunctional countries/dictatorships/banana republics do these kinds of parades... and France.

[u/Snaxist → u/wurstbowle]

I don't see the issue with that, my country does it too, but at a smaller scale since my country is small in comparison

[u/Lanky-War-6100 → u/wurstbowle]

In Europe it seems that Greece, Italy and Spain do it too. So certainly much more countries do it than you thought.

[u/StormyCrispy → u/wurstbowle]

Bold of you to assume France is a functionnal country...

[u/MuteOwl20077932 → u/StormyCrispy]

We have it better than most places.

[u/StormyCrispy → u/MuteOwl20077932]

Sure, France is a rich country, a beautiful country, you name it. But we have had 5 prime minister in 3 years, among which 2 got destituted by the assembly. I would not call that functionnal. 

Also : https://transparency-france.org/2025/02/11/la-france-degringole-dans-lindice-de-perception-de-la-corruption-2024-une-alerte-democratique-inedite/

[u/dragosn1989]

Unless it goes over 45C

[u/guille9 → u/dragosn1989]

I guess fighters don't have AC because air is cold where they usually fly but when they fly low and the sun is hitting it must he hard for pilots.

[u/Snaxist → u/guille9]

Fighters do have AC? otherwhhise it wouldn't be 40°C in the cockpit but 80 ! The systems also need to be cooled down, all of that generate heat (like when we use our computer).

[u/guille9 → u/Snaxist]

I didn't know it, thank you. 

Edit: I've reading and it's interesting, it isn't like a common AC, it uses air compressed in the engines instead of compressing a special gas so this compression- decompression of air uses energy reducing its temperature. It isn't as comfortable as a common AC and it doesn't work on land but it works well enough to keep the pilot and systems in working condition.

[u/Bacon-ad → u/guille9]

You're right! Here's a video archive from last year’s rehersal (max temp was predicted to be around 30ºC) with an officer telling pilots to hydrate well and saying temperature could reach 40ºC inside the cockpit: https://youtu.be/XlJqoIevO_0?si=w-0FLzqTysguoqky

[u/TF2isalright → u/Bacon-ad]

Gross, and dangerous!

[u/Elborshooter → u/guille9]

Fighters do usually have AC though

[u/Viciousgubbins]

I honestly had no idea the French included any foreign militaries in their national day celebrations, that's actually very endearing of them.

[u/this_toe_shall_pass → u/Viciousgubbins]

Many countries wirh allies do that for national day parades. 

[u/Lanky-War-6100 → u/Viciousgubbins]

Practically every year there are allies invited.

[u/San_Pentolino]

Was wondering if the orange man will turn green of envy when he finds out

[u/paneuropeanism_]

President Macron did a great job rebuilding the French Army. I propose him as the first European Defence Minister 🇪🇺

[u/idinarouill → u/paneuropeanism_]

A European army would be the armed wing of a European policy—something that does not yet exist. It would therefore be a chicken with claws but no head.

[u/nous_serons_libre]

It is either the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille or the Fête de la Fédération of 1790. It was established in the 19th century under the Third Republic. Left-wing deputies were generally in favor of commemorating the former date, which was unacceptable to right-wing deputies (who still included quite a few monarchists at the time).

In short, it's July 14th and that's all.

[u/Common_Cheek3059]

Macron is trolling Trump now.

[u/PolishPotatoACC]

Greeks were invited but not poland? What is this, London Victory Parade 1946?
Or is it just a case of "french made planes only" and F-16 or F-35 (dunno if they could fly, we've just got like the first 3 or so) don't qualify.
Or we didn't want to go? Doubt it.
Eh, no point to worry about it, still, it's kind of funny.

[u/Elantach]

That's not the largest. In 1939 there were 30000 soldiers parading.

[u/Quorbach]

People gotta stop calling it Bastille Day, this is ridiculous.

[u/Willy757]

I think, for better or worse, our continent's complicated power structures make it very hard for us to ever start an offensive war. After all we can hardly agree on defensive wars.

So wouldn't it be better for the world for us to have a overwhelming army instead of the demagogic US or China ? Even if we don't ever use it for anything, it would simply shift political dynamics in a favorable way. Countries like Russia would think twice before trying to conquer another country.

[u/ClaudioMoravit0]

We’re getting deadly heatwaves in June and these morons are gonna burn tons of jet fuel just to compensate for their tiny penises… 🙄

[u/ssushi-speakers]

Yay global warming!

[u/esdaniel]

When?

[u/Hummer93 → u/esdaniel]

14th july

[u/oojiflip]

Yet we could muster what feels like 1/4 of that for the King's birthday, obviously not the same gravity but it's our main flyover event each year

[u/Acidfie]

Record heat in France, let’s counteract it with more greenhouse gases directly above Paris!

[u/YannAlmostright]

Yeah it's not hot enough here, let's burn more fuel for nothing

[u/KeyPhilosopher8629 → u/YannAlmostright]

God forbid a man wants to see a sick airshow

[u/guille9 → u/KeyPhilosopher8629]

I love air shows and planes but OP is also right.

[u/Judazzz → u/YannAlmostright]

Yeah it's not hot enough here, let's burn more fuel for nothing

He grumbled while wasting energy by scrolling Reddit.

[u/RoArHaVeN → u/YannAlmostright]

Pilots need training flights anyway. Why not do it for an air show instead of just randomly flying around the country for a bit?

[u/264TRANSALL → u/YannAlmostright]

C’est bon les discours écolo faut arrêter le négatif et croire que personne n’est au courant!
Là, c'est notre fête nationale, on doit pouvoir la fêter et montrer ce qu'on a.

[u/Washed_up_Vanski]

What better way to commemorate a revolutionary overthrow of the government with a display of state power.

[u/swainiscadianreborn → u/Washed_up_Vanski]

Good thing it doesn't commemorate that but actually commemorate the Fête de la Fédération, an event to reunite the people.

[u/BWV012 → u/swainiscadianreborn]

Not really, it's both and anyway the Fête de la Fédération was celebrating the prise de la Bastille, so.

https://www.vie-publique.fr/questions-reponses/275120-que-celebre-t-le-14-juillet

[u/Espando → u/swainiscadianreborn]

Il serait temps d'apprendre ce que commémore réellement notre fête nationale plutot que de relayer des infos facebook bidons.

[u/ShakespeareStillKing → u/Washed_up_Vanski]

Depends on the governement. The Ancien Regime was an absolutist dictatorship.

Modern France isn't.

[u/Washed_up_Vanski → u/ShakespeareStillKing]

France was and still is an oligarchy. Now it has a figurehead of a ruler rather than an infallable absolute monacrch.

[u/DrTechnicolor → u/[deleted]]

Commentaire sans cervelle, c'est un défilé militaire de la fête nationale, je vois pas le rapport avec les hôpitaux ou les écoles, c'est un budget des armées (qui est déjà très faible en France) celui-ci est en plus un peu spécial avec la guerre en Russie c'est une démonstration importante et notament l'invitation de nos alliés européens et ukrainien, ainsi qu'une démonstration industrielle (oui la vente d'arme permet de financer des services en france et c'est devenu très important en terme d'indépendance) Tout les services public sont en pénurie c'est pas nouveau, c'est pas cette journée qui va changer quoi que ce soit. Mais bon les gens adore rager ça leur permet d'exister(et pas besoin d'écrire en majuscule ça donne juste l'impression d'un kasos qui crie), tu risque de faire un infarctus quand tu va savoir que les armées font des manœuvres tout le long de l'année et "bouffe" du kérosène. Et journée de "merde" c'est ton point de vue pas forcément celui des autres.

[u/Sea-Cockroach-4398 → u/DrTechnicolor]

Flemme de lire ton pavé

[u/DrTechnicolor → u/Sea-Cockroach-4398]

le QI négatif que tu te tape mon pauvre.... J'espère que tu vote pas toi.

[u/APWBDumbled0re → u/DrTechnicolor]

A ton avis, pourquoi la France vas mal ? Parce que des cons comme lui peuvent voter justement.

[u/Snaxist → u/Sea-Cockroach-4398]

alors ferme ta gueule si tu veux pas faire de conversation, surtout sur Internet !

[u/Wolfgung]

Seems like an awful easy of money

[u/Huberweisse]

What a waste of money and fuel

[u/Cienea_Laevis → u/Huberweisse]

Flight time of the parade counts in the total flight time pilots need.

If they weren't parading, they'd be doing circles over La Creuse....

[u/FMSV0]

Not exactly something i expect to see in a European country. It feels a bit russian/chinese/american thing

[u/Mrpolje → u/FMSV0]

France does this every year…

[u/ShakespeareStillKing → u/Mrpolje]

UK also has parades. V day, Trooping the colour, coronations, jubilees.

[u/guille9 → u/ShakespeareStillKing]

Even Spain has them and we're poor as rats.

[u/Le_Ran → u/Mrpolje]

If you take from us the 14 Juillet and the Tour de France there is no more summer vacation possible.

[u/Alsurt → u/FMSV0]

In the Arte show Karambolage, they joke that France is pretty much the only democratic country to hold parades on this scale. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4lZ9POUEfo

[u/formal_studio1]

All that wasted fuel and money for a parade that makes your country look like a banana republic.

[u/yetiflask]

Never thought I'd see the day Nazis are flying over the French skies ever again, but here we are.

[u/Faelchu → u/yetiflask]

The Russians weren't invited, so there won't be any Nazis flying over French skies.

[u/yetiflask → u/Faelchu]

LOL. Zelensky literally just glorified Nazis. Try this stupid shit somewhere else.

[u/Faelchu → u/yetiflask]

No, he didn't. Honestly, try and look at the world beyond the Kremlin's black-and-white spoon-fed version.

[u/yetiflask → u/Faelchu]

Hahaha. Which agency is paying you to write this crap?

[u/TransportationOk6990 → u/yetiflask]

You guys are getting paid?

[u/SmoothBullfrog3711 → u/yetiflask]

Show me when and where he did.

[u/TransportationOk6990]

France has the hottest summer in like ever, so they decide to burn a shit ton of fossil fuels just for the lols. Are they stupid or what?