Word: tricolors
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...Unknown Soldier's tomb. In Lyons processions swarmed through the city singing the Marseillaise. In Marseille a crowd of 5,000 denounced Laval, demonstrated outside the military prison, cheered the U.S. Consulate. Police unlimbered their submachine guns, killed at least five. In Vichy 300 people made a tricolor showing before the Third Republic Memorial...
Then, a few moments before noon, something happened. At third-floor level, a plane roared defiantly up the Champs-Elysées. Before the Arc de Triomphe it zoomed, then dipped in salute to the Unknown Soldier, dropped a huge, weighted tricolor. Circling, the plane thundered back down the Champs-Elysées. At the Place de la Concorde it swerved toward the Rue Royale and sent shell after cannon shell smashing into German military headquarters (once the French Ministry of Marine). The plane vanished to the northwest, followed only by a few feeble tracer bullets...
...some it was a matter of question able honor but material gain. The "Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism," endorsed by Vichy, offered recruits a tidy 40 francs a day (against the ten francs paid by France's "Armistice Army"). In German uniforms and tricolor brassards, they swore fealty to the Reichsführer and were exhorted to avenge Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. Men with families in concentration camps learned that joining the legion would free them...
...strange parade. Hundreds of snails crept through the streets. They were smeared under the wheels of traffic; they squished under the boots of Nazi troops, who finally pressed snickering Frenchmen into service as street cleaners. Across the shell of every snail was painted the red, white & blue of the Tricolor...
...Petain's Minister of the Interior Pierre Pucheu lashed out furiously at the underground Communist Party in both zones of France. Warned he: "[We] will not permit a political group that was most bellicose before the war, but defeatist throughout the war, now to wrap itself in the Tricolor and provoke incidents between the people and occupation troops on the pretext of patriotism...