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France will be holding its annual celebration of Revolutionary history on Thursday, with a military parade down the capital's most famous boulevard, a presidential address to the nation and a vast fireworks display. But amid the glorification of the Republic and its ideals, do the values of equality, liberty and fraternity still hold true in France today?
There are few phrases in France that can summon up feelings of pride and solidarity quite like this one.
It turns up on coins, on parking fines, at protests and at press conferences, on monuments, town halls and primary schools.
"Liberty, equality, fraternity," is seen as the safe-house of French identity, and yet the nation's daily complaints are of inequality, divisions and abuse of power.
That's no coincidence, says Christian Makarian, deputy editor at the weekly current affairs magazine L'Express.
"Bastille Day is a way to celebrate the past, to celebrate the famous triangle of core values," he says, "but everybody knows that we must give a new definition to these values today.
"'Liberte, egalite, fraternite' worked in a country with a cultural unity, but with cultural diversity, is this triangle still effective?"
It's such a tricky question, he says, that the country's politicians find it easier to keep celebrating the past than tackle what these concepts might mean in France today.
But, he adds, "repeating is not the same thing as believing".
In the midst of new debates brought by globalisation and the growth of multicultural identities here, the motto is seen as a refuge by many French people - a way to capture unity despite the nation's differences and divisions, in the way the French football team posed as a national emblem of its modern, multiethnic society.