The Patrouille de France demonstration team of the French air force flies above the Champs Elysee during the Bastille Day military parade in Paris. (Melanie Frey / EPA)
French Foreign Legion troops march down the Champs Elysees during the Bastille Day military parade in Paris. (Melanie Frey / EPA)
French Foreign Legion troops parade in front of President Nicolas Sarkozy and his guest, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, during the Bastille Day parade in Paris.(Melanie Frey / EPA)
Indian troops parade in front of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during the Bastille Day parade in Paris. (Melanie Frey / EPA)
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, center, congratulates two of the parachutists who landed on the Place de la Concorde at the end of the military parade for Bastille Day in Paris. (Yoan Valat / EPA)
French President Nicolas Sarkozy kisses the hand of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s wife, Gursharan Kaur, after his arrival at the Bastille Day military parade on the Champs Elysees in Paris. (Michel Euler / Associated Press)