{"id":10592,"date":"2023-05-06T06:57:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T01:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10592"},"modified":"2025-03-29T21:14:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T15:44:48","slug":"bastille-day-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bastille-day-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Bastille Day Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>What is France&#8217;s Bastille Day parade?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>July 14 is marked as France\u2019s National Day.<\/li>\n<li>One of the revolutionary days in Paris and now a national holiday, the July 14 (&#8220;Bastille Day&#8221;) is celebrated with a mixture of solemn military parades and easygoing dancing and fireworks.<\/li>\n<li>The storming of the <strong>Bastille on July 14, 1789<\/strong> has been commemorated in France for more than a century.<\/li>\n<li>Every Bastille Day, Paris\u2019 famous avenue des Champs-Elys\u00e9es hosts a military parade &#8211; similar to India&#8217;s Republic Day parade on Kartavya Path.<\/li>\n<li>French heads of state have been the Republic Day guests of honour five times since 1951.<\/li>\n<li>Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be the 2nd Indian PM to be the guest of honour at Bastille Day, after Manmohan Singh in 2009.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0Why is Kartavya Path renamed?<\/h3>\n<p>The word Rajpath sounds as the idea of ruling over others, but Kartavya Path inspires us to fulfil our duties towards the nation, society, family and all people without any discrimination<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=PM-Modi-to-visit-France-on-14th-of-July-to-attend-this-year%e2%80%99s-Bastille-Day-Parade-as-Guest-of-Honour-in-Paris&amp;id=460477\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PM Modi to visit France on 14th of July to attend this year\u2019s Bastille Day Parade as Guest of Honour in Paris<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 has been commemorated in France for more than a century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}