Look at the bad ass french.
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France has been celebrating Bastille Day with the traditional military parade in the heart of Paris.
[img id=picture_1 height=300 alt="Jacques Chirac reviews troops in his command car" src="vny!://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41886000/jpg/_41886936_chirac_afp416.jpg" width=416]
President Jacques Chirac oversaw the display of pomp and fanfare in the Champs-Elysees.
[img id=picture_2 height=300 alt="Members of the French Foreign Legion march in Paris" src="vny!://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41886000/jpg/_41886944_legion_afp416.jpg" width=416]
Some 3,000 soldiers - including members of the world-famous French Foreign Legion - marched past crowds of onlookers.
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Leclerc tanks joined the parade for the first time since 2003.
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Fighter jets laid a trail of blue, white and red smoke over the Arc de Triomphe.
[img id=picture_5 height=300 alt="French gendarmes rid on motorbikes" src="vny!://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41886000/jpg/_41886940_gendarmes_afp416.jpg" width=416]
The events mark the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789, which launched the French Revolution.
