STORY: France celebrated Bastille Day on Monday (July 14) with French President Emmanuel Macron reviewing troops and watching a military parade on the Champs Elysees.

One soldier was bleeding from the ear as he marched, sword in hand, with fellow officers-in-training from the inter-army military academy.

As the parade came to a close, a horse broke away from the Republican Guards cavalry formation, while another fell to the ground.

The show went on with no other disruptions, featuring several regiments from the army, marines and civil security including rescue dogs, aircraft and motorised police.

Bastille Day commemorates the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789, one of the key events of the French Revolution. The day is a national holiday in Franc

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MOMENTS: French soldier seen with bloody ear, horse falls in Bastille Day parade

VIDEO SHOWS: SOLDIER MARCHING WITH BLOODY EAR/ HORSE FALLING DURING PARADE

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1. SOLDIER WITH BLOODY EAR, MARCHING WITH SWORD, WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF INTER-ARMY MILITARY ACADEMY, ON CHAMPS ELYSEES

2. MEMBERS OF INTER-ARMY MILITARY ACADEMY MARCHING

3. SOLDIER WITH BLOODY EAR MARCHING

4. VARIOUS OF MEMBERS OF INTER-ARMY MILITARY ACADEMY MARCHING

5. FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON AND FIRST LADY BRIGITTE MACRON WATCHING

6. REPUBLICAN GUARDS CAVALRYMEN RIDING DOWN CHAMPS ELYSEES

7. HORSE GALLOPING AWAY FROM THE FORMATION

8. HORSE WHO GALLOPED AWAY COMING BACK TO GROUP, ANOTHER HORSE FALLING AND STANDING BACK UP

9. VARIOUS OF REPUBLICAN GUARDS CAVALRYMEN RIDING DOWN CHAMPS ELYSEES