Word: boisvin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roland Boisvin, aged 53, a mechanic, left his home in the Rue de 1'Exposition after an early lunch. A World War I veteran, he was going to join comrades of the Association des Anciens Combattants who were to lay their traditional Armistice Day wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier, under the Arc de Triomphe...
...thick mist made visibility poor. As he marched up the lower half of the Champs Elysees, preceded by groups representing former prisoners of war and deportees, Communist youth organizations and the Franc-tireurs et Partisans (Communist-controlled guerrillas who had fought the Nazis), Boisvin could only just see the nose and steel helmet of Georges Clemenceau, peeping through the fog. Crowds lined the street...
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