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CELEBRATIONS IN PARIS--BASTILLE DAY, 1918 Reel 1 · Part 3
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Reel 1, Pres. Poincare, Premier Clemenceau, and Marshal Foch arrive at the Hotel de Ville. Poincare rides to the reviewing stand on the Bois de Boulogne, and decorates Allied troops. Units of the 16th and 18th Inf. Reg'ts and Scotch, British, Polish, Italian, Greek, French, and Algerian troops pass the Place de la Concorde and enter the Tuilleries. Reel 2 shows the troops in the Garden of the Tuilleries. Gens. Bliss and Lockridge and Col. U.S. Grant, III, leave the reviewing stand. Shows ruins of the Bastille.
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