France's President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron react during a visit to The British Museum in London, Wednesday July 9, 2025.

France's first lady put on a brave face and joined her husband for the Bastille Day celebrations in Paris, as it emerged she had taken her libel case against women who claimed she used to be a man to the highest appeals court.

France celebrated its biggest holiday Monday with 7,000 people marching, on horseback or riding armored vehicles along the cobblestones of the Champs-Elysées, the most iconic avenue in Paris.