Word: villevieux
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...night, at the village of Villevieux in central France, Vincent Auriol silently crawled in among the sacks in the back of a mail truck. Then the truck jounced past two German sentries, on its way to an open field six kilometers from town. Thirty townsmen had already slipped out to the field, to signal with flashlights to an approaching R.A.F. plane. Shortly after midnight, Auriol, General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny and three other passengers were safe in the air, bound for London...
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