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Bastille Day (July 14th)

July 13, 2018

Celebrations for Le Quartorze de Juillet (14th of July), also commonly known as Bastille Day or La Fête Nationale, mark one of the major party events in Paris for the year. It commemorates the storming of the Bastille prison and the French revolt against Louis…

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A group of people riding bikes down the street.

Le Tour de France

July 10, 2010

Le Tour de France, the world’s premier biking race that stretches in 20 stages from Rotterdam, through the mountainous Pyrénées, to the grand finale on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris, ends this Sunday on July 25.  The winner, in…

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