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...below the Arc de Triomphe and laid on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier two bunches of flame-colored gladioli. The flame at the tomb still burned. De Gaulle laid a Cross of Lorraine, fashioned of white roses, beside the gladioli, and stood at attention while a bugler sounded Aux Marts (taps...
...Aux armes, citoyens...
...Century church of St. Etienne (see cut), where William the Conqueror was buried until the Huguenots scattered his bones. Known as the Abbaye-aux-Hommes (Men's Abbey), St. Etienne is one of Europe's most important examples of Romanesque...
...Trinité, called the Abbaye-aux-Dames (Women's Abbey). Founded in 1062 by William's Queen Mathilda, La Trinité is surmounted by two square towers, instead of spires like St. Etienne...
...Mort aux Boches! They were more than eager to talk to the Americans. They said the Americans would be welcomed generally by the French patriots. The Germans, they said, had been very correct in their social relations with the French, but had eaten the cream of the crop and had compelled the Frenchmen to work on beach fortifications, and the French women to do their laundry, for which they paid...