From Athens, the torch boarded the “Belem,” a three-masted ship that dates back to 1896, the year of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens ... through over 400 towns and cities across France.

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The torch was lit in a traditional ceremony honoring the Olympic games' roots in Ancient Olympia Julia Moore is a TV writer-reporter at PEOPLE. A graduate of Northwestern University, she has been ...

Paris hosted an extra-special guest for France's national holiday Sunday — the Olympic flame lighting up the city's grandiose military parade for Bastille Day.