After a year of postponement, the 1st Parachute Hussar Regiment will finally be able to celebrate its tercentenary. Three centuries will give rise to three days of festivities. From July 8th to 10th, the entire city of Tarbes will honor its regiment around its two pillars: the horse and the air. On the program: stalls set up in the Town Hall Square, exhibitions in the town hall and at the stud farm's media library, a treasure hunt to immerse visitors in the history of the Parachute Hussar Regiment, and a serenade by the 1st RHP band, which will parade through the city center. Equestrian presentations at the Tarbes Stud Farm, of course, for an armored cavalry unit of the French army created during the Revolution from an Ancien Régime regiment created in 1719. This anniversary will also be marked by two grand shows, one at night, the other in the sky.
A grand show every evening
The first will take place every evening at 11 p.m. in the Quartier Larrey. The soberly named 300>/q> is a nighttime sound and light show that will explore the history of the 1st RHP. The latest creation by Bruno Seillier, who already has around forty shows to his credit, from mapping on the facades of the inner courtyard of the Hôtel des Invalides in Paris from
La Nuit aux Invalides
to La Cité des Pierres Vivantes
on the ramparts and in the castle of the medieval city of Carcassonne, including Les Écuyers du temps
, an association of equestrian shows, live shows, and video mapping shows on the facades of the Château des Ducs d’Anjou in Saumur. With 300, the Parachute Hussars will be in the spotlight, an elite unit whose roots go back three hundred years and a motto that sounds so French: If you have lost everything, remember that you still have honor
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The Patrouille de France for two presentations
And it is naturally also in the air that the Parachute Hussar Regiment will celebrate its tercentenary with two Patrouille de France presentations. Their nine Alphajets will arrive, accompanied by logistical support, at Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées Airport for setup and training over Tarbes Laloubère Airfield. The atmosphere of the airshows that took place there will be recreated for two presentations: Friday at 3:30 p.m. and Saturday at 11 a.m. A return to the southwest for the PAF, which came to Mont-de-Marsan two months ago for training flights with the Landes fighter squadron. Friday, July 9th and Saturday, July 10th, two superb presentations are in store for the patrol's eight Alphajets. A highlight of the anniversary of the 1st RHP with the most famous of the Air Patrols which will split the sky with national colors a few days before its passage over the Champs-Elysées on July 14.
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