Ambulance drivers, supermarket cashiers, postal workers. Medics who died fighting COVID-19. France is honouring them all on its biggest national holiday Tuesday, recalibrating Bastille Day's usual grandiose military parade to celebrate heroes of the coronavirus pandemic instead.
This years' commemoration is also paying homage to former President Charles de Gaulle, 80 years after the historic appeal he made to opponents of France's Nazi occupiers that gave birth to the French Resistance.
The destination of their protest march wasn't chosen by chance: They're set to head to Bastille plaza, the former home of a royal prison that rebels stormed on July 14, 1789, symbolically marking the beginning of the French Revolution. This year, instead of world leaders or other dignitaries, those guests are nurses, doctors, supermarket and nursing home workers, mask makers, lab technicians and others who kept France going during its strict nationwide lockdown. Families of medical workers who died with the virus also have a place in the stands.
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