Bastille Day: Scaled-down parade held in Paris amid pandemic

France held a scaled-down annual Bastille Day celebration on Tuesday, with none of the usual tanks and troops parading down Paris’s Champs-Élysées avenue due to the COVID-19 pandemic still lingering in Europe. Instead, President Emmanuel Macron, standing in the back of a military jeep, reviewed ranks of socially-distanced troops in the Place de la Concorde square after a flypast by military aircraft. Health workers who have been in the front lines of France’s battle against the virus also joined troops on