Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bright day in 1947 the glory of Lange and Salve reached its peak: a detachment of the Garde Republicaine rode out to an apartment house in the seedy Menilmontant district on the northeastern rim of Paris. The sun glinted on the guardsmen's silvery helmets and on the glossy black hides of their horses. While they held aloft their sabers in salute, while trumpets blared and drums rolled, an officer unveiled a bronze plaque on the apartment house wall: On the fifth floor of this building in July 1940 under the direction of the fervent patriots Lange, called "Alcyn...