Word: leclerc
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...spent the night at General Leclerc's command post, six miles from Paris on the Orleans-Paris road. Here the last German resistance outside Paris was being slowly reduced, while inside the city the Germans and the F.F.I, fought a bitter battle that had already lasted six days. Late in the afternoon a French cub plane flew in 50 yards above the Cathedral of Notre Dame, on the He de la Cite where the F.F.I, had its headquarters, and dropped a message which said simply: "Tomorrow we come...
...Invalides, the Gare du Quai-d'Orsay, the Place de la Concorde, the Madeleine and the Grand Palais. They also had strong points at the Gare d'Austerlitz, the Gare du Nord and the Porte d'Orleans. What was holding up the column of General Leclerc was a road block outside Sceaux...
...clock in the morning the tanks began to move, and we followed as far as Antony, where a squad of Spanish Republicans, now of the French 2nd Armored Division, stopped us. There was still enemy resistance ahead. Presently the tanks cleaned it up, and General Leclerc, who" stood in the road with one hand in his pocket and the other gripping a cane, decided to go into Paris. It was 9 o'clock...
...flowers and kisses. They waved arms and flags and flowers; they climbed aboard the cars and jeeps embracing the French and us alike; they uttered a great mass cry of delight that swelled and died down and swelled to a greater height. They cried: "Vive De Gaulle!" and "Vive Leclerc!" But one word repeated over and over rose above all the other words. It was: "Merci! Merci! Merci!" (Thanks! Thanks! Thanks...
...Louis. This was the day of Saint Louis, on whose island six days ago the first Resistance center had been set up. Louis IX was one of the good French kiitigs and the people who remembered were glad it was his day on which Paris was delivered. As General Leclerc's procession slowed down the cry swelled again: "Merci! Merci! Merci...