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...Since Bastille Day. De Gaulle stepped out on his long legs. Behind him were General Joseph-Pierre Koenig, commander of the French Forces of the Interior, and General Jacques Leclerc, the commander of France's Second Armored Division. On each side rumbled Leclerc's tanks. Behind the Generals marched leaders of the motley bands of the F.F.I., and behind them the most bizarre parade that ever trod this historic avenue...
...places where the parade was known to have planned to stop. Whether the first shots were fired at Notre Dame, nobody could be sure. But the shooting started there just as the procession reached the cathedral. The time was 4:20. As the first shots rang out, Leclerc and Koenig tried to hustle De Gaulle through the door. De-Gaulle shook off their hands and never faltered. While the battle began outside, he walked slowly down the aisle. Before he had gone many paces a machine pistol fired down from above. At least two more joined in, and from below...
...facto blessing. The Supreme Allied Commander appeared without public notice, drove to the Arc de Triomphe, waved and smiled his Kansas smile. The General had invited De Gaulle to accompany him, but other duties prevented. But with Ike Eisenhower were De Gaulle's seconds in command: Generals Koenig and Leclerc. Again Paris roared its acclaim. There was no sniping. Said De Gaulle to the jubilant Parisians...
Enveloping Arc. Meanwhile Paris struggled in its hour before liberation. Great fires raged - reportedly the Germans' destruction of their depots. Refugees told of General Koenig's F.F.I, fighting Germans in the streets, of the Germans machine-gunning demonstrators...
...France General Charles de Gaulle awaited his entrance cue. The chariots were assembled-the tanks and trucks of General Jacques Leclerc's armored division which had rolled up to the rim of the city with the Americans. Other victory parade leaders were ready - among them General Joseph Pierre Koenig, the commander of France's underground army, which was already rising against the last Germans in the murk that hovered over the "City of Light" just before the dawn...