Exit the Champs-Elysées. Unavailable due to the facilities for the Olympic Games, some of the events of which will take place at Place de la Concorde, where the official stands are usually set up, the most beautiful avenue in the world must give way this year for the July 14 parade. . The military parade will not move very far, since it will be hosted by Avenue Foch, according to information from Parisian.
The preferred option until then was a parade between Porte de Vincennes and Nation, in eastern Paris. Emmanuel Macron himself announced this during his speech to the armies in July 2023. But “logistical and technical difficulties”, some “very restrictive”, were not anticipated, recognizes the office of the military governor of Paris in the daily columns.
Between the work to make the axis passable by tanks and the diversion of an important traffic axis in a district already undergoing complete transformation, it would have taken seven months of work. Too fair. Not to mention the repercussions on the tram, bus, metro and RER A networks. Last constraint, “many trees to preserve”, complicating the installation of stands and press areas. Finally, the parade will only go a third of the way around the Arc de Triomphe, stretching into the 16th arrondissement.