France holds Bastille Day military parade as Macron calls on troops to maintain 'moral strength'

<br />France’s President Emmanuel Macron led the celebrations in Paris for the French Bastille Day holiday Thursday (July 14).<br /><br />Arriving in an open top vehicle, the French president waved at the waiting crowds, as military personnel on horseback and marching bands, paraded on the Champs Elysees avenue.<br /><br />Bastille Day commemorates the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789, one of the key events of the French Revolution. The day has become a national holiday in France