France is celebrating its biggest holiday Monday with 7,000 people marching, on horseback or riding armored vehicles along the cobblestones of the Champs-Elysees, the most iconic avenue in Paris. And there are plans for partying and pageantry around the country.

A huge fireworks display is held around the Eiffel Tower to mark Bastille Day, the French National Day commemorating the Storming of the Bastille in 1789.