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Police fire tear gas at anti-government protests taking place in Paris that coincides with Bastille Day on Tuesday. In other parts of the city, health workers demonstrate to call for better working conditions and higher pay.

Earlier in the day, France held a scaled-down annual Bastille Day celebration on Tuesday, with none of the usual tanks and troops parading down Paris's Champs Elysees avenue, in a concession to the COVID-19 epidemic still stalking Europe.

Bastille Day, or the French National Day, dates back to the 1789 revolution. On that day, citizens stormed the Bastille fortress, which was used to detain prisoners and had become a symbol of the harsh rule of the French monarchy.

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