Word: tricolors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They cheered all speakers impartially; they laughed, jumped up & down, fluttered the Tricolor and the Cross of Lorraine...
Plouvien had been left behind by U.S. tank columns bearing south to the siege of Brest, ten miles away. By the time their vanguard had passed, Plouvien's 2,500 citizens had decked their cottages with the tricolor and with homemade U.S. flags, The men came in from the fields to celebrate liberation...
...F.F.I.; grabbed the collaborationist Mayor, marched him off with cuffs and kicks to the lockup. From among their neighbors they chose a new Mayor. Thousands of men & women thronged the bomb-scarred square to hear him speak from a balcony draped with the Stars & Stripes and the Tricolor. Emotion clogged the Mayor's voice as he gave thanks to the Americans. He said: "Up to now we have been slaves. Today we are Frenchmen." The crowd responded with surf-like cheers: Vive la France! Vive l'Amérique! Vive De Gaulle! But some among them had freed...
...resistance corralled 40 frightened men & women in a cellar, among them some of Joseph Darnand's hated Militia. Some collaborationists killed themselves rather than surrender to their neighbors. In an alley two gendarmes forced a collaborationist to his knees, cocked pistols at his head, made him salute the Tricolor. Nearby another group dragged along an Italian by the hair, made him kneel and shout Vive la France! Then they slugged him on the head, kicked him, spat on him. But he was lucky...
...last the General appeared, his tall figure towering above everyone, his face taut and set. The bishop and the subprefect greeted him. The townsfolk trailed him to the park. There, bareheaded under a Tricolor mounted with the Gaullist Cross of Lorraine, flanked by the Union Jack and the Stars & Stripes, Charles de Gaulle said; "We will fight by the side of our Allies. . . . Our victory will be a victory of a free people. . . ." Then he sang La Marseillaise with his countrymen...