July 14, 2024: a parade damaged by the Olympic flame and a National Day under tension

JULY 14. The traditional parade from July 14   Paris must change course due to the holding of the Olympic Games à Paris. For the occasion, the number of soldiers marching for the National Day will also be reduced.

The parade military of July 14 must adapt this year. If for forty-five years, the route of the traditional parade has continued. of the national holiday had not changed, this year, the organization of the Olympic Games which begin on July 26 is shaking up somewhat the program. Thus, and to compensate for the presence of the Olympic flame in the capital on July 14 and 15, the military governor of Paris proposed: a new configuration. While the Place de la Concorde is the place where you can visit the city. When the parade usually ends, the presence of infrastructure for the BMX freestyle or skateboard events has led to a significant increase in competition. a change. Thus, if the soldiers set off from the Place de l’Etoile, they will then head towards the Place du Maréchal-de-Lattre -de-Tassigny taking avenue Foch.

"The axis is a third shorter, the roadway is narrower," General Christophe Abad, the military governor of Paris during the presentation of the organization of the ceremony. For the occasion, the troops are reviewed the decline. 4,000 women and men will parade for this 2024 edition, compared to 5,100 last year, or 25% less. In the sky, planes will also be fewer in number with 45 aircraft compared to 66 in 2023. As for the public, space in the stands will also be reduced, by ;où the advice launched by the organizers to follow the festivities at home remotely and broadcast live on TF1 and France 2. The show will only last one hour and forty-five hours instead of the usual two hours. Olympic year obliges, the finale of the parade will echo the Olympic Games with an animation on "the armies and the Olympics". The Olympic flame will be brought by Colonel Valette until the end of the day. the official forum.

11 000 police officers and gendarmes mobilized à Paris, 130,000 throughout France

Caller à respect a moment of " “national cohesion”, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin indicated that that 130,000 police and gendarmes will be mobilized throughout France to ensure the smooth running of the July 14 festivities, reports The Parisian. À Paris, 11,000 law enforcement officers will be deployed on the ground. “Faced with the irresponsible people who are trying to sow disorder, I call for respect for this moment of national cohesion," on X the tenant of Place Beauvau. A post that echoes what the appeal of the High School Union and the Student Union which appealed, with the support of several elected officials from Rebellious France, à demonstrate this July 14 & 7 p.m. on the Place de la Bastille to ask " a government of the New Popular Front " and "against the presidential coup".

The reorganization of the fashion show of July 14, 2024 which is being held this year on avenue Foch has consequences on the duration of the ;event which will only last 1 hour and 45 minutes instead of the usual 2 hours on the Champs Élysées.

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• 09h45 : finalizing the establishment of troops à foot on the site Étoile.
• 10 a.m. : positioning of the honorary detachments of the Guard r& ;eacute;publicaine.
• 10:17: arrival of the President of the Republic Emmanuel Marcon on the Friedland Avenue. Review of the troops.
• 10:27am : honors paid to the President of the Republic at the bottom of the avenue Foch.
• 10:33 : entertainment by the Air Force jazz orchestra on the theme of 80 Years of the D&eacute ;barquements, of the Liberation of France and of Victory.
• 10:49 : scrollé helicopters and planes.
• 10:53 : scrollé troops à honor, followed by the parade troops à foot.
• 11:34 : paradeé planes.
• 11h40 : paradeé &agrav; horse.
• 11h44 : final animation on the theme "The armies and the& #39;Olympism".
• 12:00 : departure of the President of the Republic Emmanuel Marcon.

After July 14, 1880, the parade continued. military becomes an institution. On July 14, 1919, Marshals Foch, Joffre and P&etain paraded through the streets. horseback on the Champs-Elysées – even passing under the Arc de Triomphe – to celebrate the victory in the First World War acquired a few months earlier. It's & this moment than the traditional paradeé du 14July takes up residence on the most famous avenue in Paris. After an eclipse during the Second World War, the parade continued. of July 14 takes its current appearance with the multiplication of tanks and planes. Some presidents of the Republic, however, bring short-lived innovations.

During his mandate, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing moved the paradeé in other arteries of Paris, such as the Cours de Vincennes, the Ecole Militaire or between Bastille and République à Bastille. In 1982, François Mitterrand postponed the fashion show. &agrav; after dark. The ceremonial is perfectly oiled. The parade rehearsals usually take place on July 12 at dawn, two days before the key date. It opens with the passage of planes and helicopters. In all, around 4,000 soldiers paraded on the Champs-Elysées in Paris. a rhythm of 120 steps per minute. Students from prestigious schools like Saint-Cyr appear in full uniform. The march is traditionally closed by units of the Foreign Legion, famous for their voluminous beards and their step slower.

For almost a century, the commemoration of July 14 was abandoned. It reappeared in 1880, under the Third Republic. The regime, to consolidate itself, seeks to build a new national imagination, around republican symbols. This is how the Marseillaise became the official anthem and July 14 became a national holiday. But the proposal, which comes from the deputy of the Seine Benjamin Raspail, was not unanimously welcomed by the Assembly. Some deputies blame the violence of July 14, 1789. And it was finally around July 14, 1790 that the consensus was reached: !This year, we also inaugurate the monument topped by of the statue on the Place de la Republique, and everywhere there are concerts and fireworks. "The July Column" which overlooks the Place de la Bastille, does not refer to July 14, 1789. It bears the name of the victims of the revolutionary days of July 1830 , the "Three Glorious".