France flex military show as Trump marks Bastille Day with Macron

France treated President Donald Trump to an outstanding military display.

This was a show of friendship by the new leader, who hopes to elevate his country's global standing by flattering his US counterpart.

Thousands of French troops, paraded the Champs-Élysées in a dramatic show of pageantry to mark the storming of the Bastille military prison in 1789, a turning point in the French Revolution.

Trump and Emmanuel Macron, stood side-by-side from a stand at the Place de la Concorde, appearing in periodic and friendly conversation during the two-hour spectacle, which included 241 horses, 63 airplanes and 29 helicopters all advancing down and above the tree-lined avenue.

They shared another extended handshake as they parted ways, each man gripping the other.

UCJ, UNILORIN.