Flashback: Jean-Paul Goude's Bastille Day Parade

Jessye Norman sings the French national anthem in Paris on July 14, 1989.

Bastille Day comes but once a year, and what luck that in 2012 it’s on a samedi. After you’ve secured a giant box of macarons and tracked down an elusive DVD of Jean Renoir‘s 1938 flick La Marseillaise (sip your champagne every time the proto-anthem is sung!), join us for a brief trip in the international time machine that is YouTube. Click below to journey back to 1989, when Jean-Paul

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