Live Celebration coverage across France for Bastille Day 2011

Today is Bastille Day and the celebrations and parties have already begun across France.

With live webcams capturing the celebrations in Paris, Cannes, Marseille, Nice & Lyon, you can experience some of the street parties, parades and firework displays even if you can't make it to France in person!

For more information and live webcams please see: Bastille Day 2011 Live Celebrations

About Bastille Day: Bastille Day is the French national holiday which is celebrated on 14 July of each year. In France, it is formally called La Fête Nationale (The National Celebration) and commonly le quatorze juillet (the fourteenth of July). It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789; the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern nation, and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which preceded the First Republic, during the French Revolution. Festivities are held on the morning of 14 July, on the Champs-Élysées avenue in Paris in front of the President of the Republic.