Around 6,300 military personnel and members of the security apparatus are expected to take part in Thursday's parade on foot, by plane, in carriages and riding on horses.
Marching guest soldiers from the Baltic states, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Slovakia will open the parade at 10 am (0800 GMT).
On the national holiday, also known as French National Day, the country remembers to the storming of the Bastille in 1789, which is seen as the symbolic beginning of the French Revolution.
