La Fete Nationale

Anyone who has been to my home knows that I am a total Francophile.....I LOVE France and would move there tomorrow if I could just find a job in Paris.

One of my dreams is to visit Paris on Bastille Day, maybe I'll save that for the big 4-0!!!  For those of you that don't know your French history, here is a little info on this holiday:

Bastille Day is the French national holiday which is celebrated on 14 July each year. In France, it is formally called La Fête Nationale (The National Celebration) and commonly le quatorze juillet (the fourteenth of July). It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789; the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern nation, and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which preceded the First Republic, during the French Revolution. Festivities are held on the morning of 14 July, on the Champs-Élysées avenue in Paris in front of the President of the Republic.

Champs Elysees Avenue

View from above l'Arc de Triomphe

Military Parade

So cool....

Totally AMAZING photo!!!

Takes my breath away!