France says 'merci' to virus heroes on poignant Bastille Day - Audiolibro Gratis

Nurses in white coats replaced uniformed soldiers as stars of France’s Bastille Day ceremonies. The usual grandiose military parade was recalibrated to honor heroes of the pandemic including medics who died, supermarket cashiers, postal workers and other essential workers. Nurses in white coats replaced uniformed soldiers as stars of France’s Bastille Day ceremonies. The usual grandiose military parade was recalibrated to honor heroes of the pandemic including medics who died, supermarket cashiers, postal workers and other essential workers.With tears in their eyes or smiles on their faces, medical workers stood silently as lengthy applause rang out over the Place de la Concorde in central Paris from President Emmanuel Macron, the head of the World Health Organization and 2,000 other guests. Masks were ubiquitous. Troops sported them as they got in formation, took them off for the ceremony, then put them on again when it was over.This year’s commemoration also paid 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.