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France celebrates Bastille Day Today

Today is Bastille Day in France, the public holiday commemorating the storming of the Bastille th...

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07.54 14 Jul 2021


France celebrates Bastille Day Today


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07.54 14 Jul 2021


Today is Bastille Day in France, the public holiday commemorating the storming of the Bastille that was the symbolic start of the French Revolution.  More than 20,000 French people a minute booked vaccine appointments in the hours after Emmanuel Macron announced that cafés, restaurants, shopping malls, and trains would be out of bounds for unvaccinated customers from next month. Elaine Cobbe, CBS news correspondent in Paris joined us from France to tell us more.

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