Bastille Day in France has lengthy been synonymous with grand fireworks shows over cities and villages, as dancing crowds have fun their nation’s revolutionary start.

But firework exhibits have been canceled in elements of the nation this 12 months, for worry of a resurgence of the unrest that has simply swept France and for the danger of fireside within the face of the extreme heat that may be a new fixture of French summers.

“It’s an unusual convergence of social and environmental issues,” Hervé Florczak, the mayor of Jouy-le-Moutier, a small city west of Paris, mentioned, noting that France had but to unravel both drawback. “It’s sad that it should fall on Bastille Day.”

Mr. Florczak defined that he had first appeared for a website away from a wooded space to prepare a fireworks show whereas avoiding drought-related hearth hazards. Then, his metropolis was struck by the riots after a police officer killed a teenager in a Paris suburb in late June.

“We canceled the show, pure and simple,” he mentioned.

The issues didn’t forestall President Emmanuel Macron from celebrating the nationwide vacation, which marks the storming of the Bastille jail in 1789 that ignited the French Revolution. Along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India as his particular visitor, Mr. Macron attended the standard Paris navy parade on the Place de la Concorde Friday morning and watched jets that left a path of blue, white and purple smoke streaming overhead.

Mr. Modi’s presence was an indication of France’s want to deepen diplomatic ties with India, a rustic that Mr. Macron described on Thursday as “a giant in the history of the world, which will have a determining role in our future.”

The two leaders had been anticipated to debate a spread of matters, from local weather change to safety within the strategic Indo-Pacific area, in addition to Russia’s warfare in Ukraine. Mr. Macron, who has contemplated enjoying the role of peacemaker in the war, has been actively making an attempt to rally the help of nonaligned nations, including India, for Ukraine.

Still, Mr. Macron might hardly escape home realities at Friday’s parade. The space of the festivities had been cordoned off by police, and plenty of metro stations had been shut down, an indication of heightened safety threats because the nation offers with the fallout from the violent protests.

Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin mentioned that 45,000 law enforcement officials, as many as on the peak of the protests, could be deployed on the nights of July 13 and 14. (French cities normally maintain Bastille Day festivities on both date.)

“What we’re trying to avoid is a resurgence of these violent episodes,” Mr. Darmanin instructed reporters on Wednesday.

Nearly 6,000 automobiles had been set on hearth, and greater than 1,000 buildings broken within the riots.

French authorities have been significantly involved about using fireworks through the vacation. Fireworks had been the weapons of choice during the recent unrest, with protesters directing them at phalanxes of law enforcement officials, who responded with volleys of tear fuel. They solely value between 10 and 20 euros every, about $11 to $22, and are straightforward to purchase in shops or on-line.

As a end result, the authorities have banned the sale, possession and transport of fireworks through the July 14 weekend. More than 150,000 fireworks have been seized in current days, Mr. Darmanin mentioned.

Although the ban doesn’t prolong to professionals or municipalities organizing festivities, a number of cities have nonetheless determined to do with out, over issues that fireworks is perhaps stolen by individuals desirous to conflict with the police or as a result of native authorities most well-liked to give attention to repairing the harm.

“It’s a simple choice,” Guillaume Delbar, the mayor of Roubaix, the place the headquarters of a digital firm was decreased to ashes through the riots, instructed the French media this week. “There’s already been enough fire and fireworks over the past few days — no need to have more.”

The resolution by some cities to cancel festivities has infuriated some right-wing politicians, who mentioned it amounted to abdicating within the face of the rioters.

“Can you believe that in the great democracy of France, we are giving up on our national day because of the fear generated by potential violence or potential riots by some people?” the far-right chief Marine Le Pen said on Wednesday.

In many cities, it was the much more alarming problem of local weather change that pressured the cancellation of the festivities.

France, like different European nations, has been hit in current days by a heat wave that has elevated the danger of fires. The excessive temperatures have come on high of a long-running drought in parts of the country that has dried up fields.

Under these circumstances, many cities referred to as off the fireworks shows and tried to seek out options. La Teste-de-Buch, a city close to Bordeaux that was ravaged by wildfires last year, organized a light-weight present involving 400 drones on Thursday evening.

Mr. Florczak, the mayor of Jouy-le-Moutier, mentioned the increasing frequency of heat waves would imply that Bastille Day fireworks would possible now not be a fixture in his metropolis. He mentioned he was contemplating changing them with a drone present or with “a ball to have something more mainstream and traditional.”

“In any case,” he added, “we need to rethink the model.”