The sky over the Eiffel Tower, which also celebrates its 130th birthday this year, and the Trocadero will be lit up with fireworks. The choreographed, multicoloured pyrotechnical show is set to last almost half an hour.
Bastille Day, the French National Day, commemorates the storming of the Bastille prison in Paris on July 14, 1789 - the flashpoint of the French Revolution.