On July 14, France’s national holiday, which this year marked the 225th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, Algerian soldiers paraded down the Champs-Élysées for the first time since Algeria’s war for independence a half-century ago, a moving symbol of historic transcendence. It has also been one hundred years since the outbreak of the First World War, and 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall quickly led to German reunification.
今年的纪念日值得我们深思法国的未来。7月14日是法国国庆节，也是攻占巴士底狱225周年纪念日。这一点，阿尔及利亚士兵在半个世纪前的阿尔及利亚独立战争后第一次参加了香榭丽舍大街游行，这是历史性超越的活的象征。今年也是第一次世界大战爆发100周年，以及迅速带来德国重新统一的柏林墙倒塌25周年。