Nine years separate these two Bastille Day parades on the Champs-Élysées, and the honored guest changed completely.
In 2017, 47 attending to mark the 100th anniversary of the US entering WWI.
This week's parade was Macron's 10th & last before he leaves office. Instead of a single guest of honor, the Champs-Élysées filled with troops from a 35 nation coalition supporting Ukraine, soldiers from Kyiv among them, 6,800 service members total, a record for the French national holiday.