Word: bayeux
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When Francois Coulet, General Charles de Gaulle's civil administrator for Normandy, fired subprefect Pierre Rochet, collaborationist chief of police of Bayeux, bitter-end patriots cheered. They pointed out that Rochet was a cousin of Pierre Pucheu, the first high Vichyite officially condemned and shot for treason...
...whole truth is harder to put together from the evidence of ten days. I have talked to people in Isigny, Carentan, Bayeux and nearly all the smaller towns between them and the sea, and this is a preliminary report of what they have said and what they have revealed by their actions...
...coast they fraternized with the local people with some success and at least two French wives or mistresses became snipers-although most of the women snipers were Germans (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). Some of the conscripted labor was French but much more was German, Italian and Russian. In one town, Bayeux, the German commandant managed to avoid sending the full quota of young men away to labor battalions and the people were grateful for that. The conscription rate for cattle was one cow per herd per month, which was not considered exorbitant...
Good Start. Bayeux was hardly touched by the invasion; the Germans got out too fast. In this pleasant tourist town, life is much as it always was, except for the gala display of the Tricolor. But in Bayeux I heard a story that probably reveals the temper of France better than anything else one could see or hear in isolated Normandy. A young man who had come from Paris three days before the invasion said that there, all the young people are mad for jazz music and the young men now wear zoot suits. He understood that this...
...General smiled, gave them a message: "Please tell your chief that I am on my way to visit General Montgomery's headquarters and will be in Bayeux within an hour." People's Man. In Bayeux, first French town liberated by Anglo-American arms, loudspeakers blared the news of the General's coming. Hurriedly shops closed, Tricolors were unfurled. The people went into the streets. Children ran alongside their elders, pestered them with questions, heard only the words, "De Gaulle! General de Gaulle...