Liberation of paris

HU 66477. General Charles de Gaulle and his entourage set off from the Arc de Triumphe down the Champs Elysees to Notre Dame for a service of thanksgiving following the city's liberation in August 1944

Baker’s Deliveryman. “Vieux Paris et Baguette” is published by Silvano Bottaro in novalistream.

US soldiers who fought in World War II have commonly been depicted as honorable citizen warriors from the "Greatest Generation." But a new book uncovers the dark side of some GIs in liberated France, where robbing, raping and whoring were rife.

A museum owner has collected the letters between two gay soldiers between World War II and the story of their romance is like that of a famous romance novel.

Last year (2013) France's Minister of Women's Rights, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem finally repealed a 200 year old ban on women wearing trousers. According to the law, women needed to have the permission of local police if they wanted to "dress like a man" and wear trousers. These Parisiennes at the Place de la Concorde in 1933 weren't about to let a silly law prevent them from wearing pants. Via Paris ZigZag

Public Domain. Additional source and credit info from source: Soldiers of the 4th U.S. Infantry Division look at the Eiffel Tower in Paris, after the French capital had been liberated on August 25, 1944. John Downey. (OWI) NARA FILE #: 208-MFI-3B-1 WAR & CONFLICT BOOK #: 1058

Basement used by resistance as control centre transformed ahead of anniversary of Nazis surrender

In a few paragraphs, I will explain what happened in Paris during World War II, how the German seized Paris, the daily life conditions...

General Charles DeGaulle, on the day of the Liberation of Paris, August 25th, 1944