The French presidential residence, Elysée Palace, has announced the reinstatement of the public changing of the guard ceremony, a tradition that was discontinued 27 years ago. In an official

statement, the presidential office revealed that this formal ceremony will now be open to the public every first Tuesday of the month, commencing on November 7th at 9 am.

During this event, two divisions of the French Republican Guard, each consisting of 16 soldiers, will march along the adjacent Avenue de Marigny and Rue de l'Elysée before convening at the Elysée gates on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. There, the leaders of these divisions will exchange salutes and commands before proceeding into the palace to begin their 24-hour duty, as detailed in the statement.

The public changing of the guard, which originally commenced in 1909 at 7:45 am every day, was last held in 1996. The Republican Guard, a military unit comprising 3,400 soldiers, holds the responsibility of safeguarding official structures in France and executing a wide range of protocol tasks. Photo by Pierreschwartz, Wikimedia commons.