France celebrates 14 July as the Fête Nationale Française, or the National Day in France.

• It is also known as the Bastille Day as this day is the anniversary of Storming of the Bastille in 1789 during the French Revolution.
• This year, the Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi has been invited as the Guest of Honour at the Bastille Day Parade in France.
• The parade will witness a 269 member tri-services contingent of the Indian Armed Forces marching alongside their French counterparts.
• The association of the Indian and the French Armies dates back to World War 1. Over 1.3 million Indian soldiers participated in the war and almost 74,000 of them fought in the muddy trenches to never return again, while another 67,000 were wounded. Indian troops valiantly fought on French soil also.