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    The liberation of Paris (French: libération de Paris) was a military battle that took place during World War II from 19 August 1944 until the German garrison...
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    The liberation of France (French: libération de la France) in the Second World War was accomplished through diplomacy, politics and the combined military...
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    Dictionnaire Historique de Paris. Le Livre de Poche. 2013. ISBN 978-2-253-13140-3. Documentary footage of liberation of Paris in 1944 'Paris Underground: Subterranean...
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  • line and support troops of the Western Allies into France in 1944. The Liberation of Paris followed on 25 August and the majority of German troops had been...
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    de Gaulle celebrates the Liberation of Paris with a special Mass at Notre-Dame. 1949 – On 26 April, the Archbishop of Paris, Emmanuel Célestin Suhard...
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    preserving the sovereignty of France and freeing allied troops for fighting on the front. After the liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944, it moved back...
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    La Libération de Paris (The Liberation of Paris) is a short historical documentary film shot in secret by small units of the French Resistance during...
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    The Catacombs of Paris (French: Catacombes de Paris, pronunciation) are underground ossuaries in Paris, France, which hold the remains of more than six...
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    participated in the Normandy landings and the invasion of southern France, ultimately leading the liberation of Paris in August 1944, which ushered in the provisional...
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  • Paris Saint-Germain and Olympique de Marseille on 13 September 2020 Liberation of Paris (1944), military engagement during the Second World War Paris...
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    War II: The Liberation of Paris - HistoryNet". 12 June 2006. Retrieved 3 January 2017. Zaloga, Steven J. (22 April 2008). Liberation of Paris 1944: Patton's...
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    2nd Armored Division (France) (category Military units and formations of France in World War II)
    the Liberation of Paris. Allied strategy emphasized destroying German forces retreating towards the river Rhine and considered that attack on Paris would...
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    Libération de Paris – Musée Jean Moulin was a museum located in the 15th arrondissement of Paris at 23, Allée de la 2e DB, Jardin Atlantique, Paris,...
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    Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during...
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    de Hauteclocque and the Liberation of Paris—Jean Moulin Museum Army Museum—Invalides Order of Liberation Museum The Battle of the Bulge was the last major...
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  • Is Paris Burning? is a 1965 book by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre telling the story of the Liberation of Paris during the Second World War. The...
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    Régiment Blindé de Fusiliers-Marins (category Military history of France during World War II)
    Saint-Laurent-de-Terregate. The RBFM played an active role in the liberation of Paris by penetrating the city in three places as follows: the 4th Squadron...
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    The French Liberation Army (French: Armée française de la Libération or AFL) was the reunified French Army that arose from the merging of the Armée d'Afrique...
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    Marcel Marceau (category Officers of the Legion of Honour)
    French Resistance during most of World War II, giving his first major performance to 3,000 troops after the liberation of Paris in August. Following the war...
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  • (book), a 1965 history of the Liberation of Paris by Collins and Lapierre Is Paris Burning? (film), a 1966 French dramatization of the book directed by...
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    the middle of 1944, Chaban-Delmas had reported to de Gaulle that the FFI numbered 15,000 in Paris, but the time of the liberation of Paris on 25 August...
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    Paris is the capital and most populous city of France. With an official estimated population of 2,102,650 residents as of 1 January 2023 in an area of...
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    Régiment de marche du Tchad (category Companions of the Liberation)
    over the cathedral of Strasbourg. It took part in the Liberation of Alençon, and most famously in the Liberation of Paris, being one of the first units to...
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    its important role in the Liberation of Paris. Men of La Nueve were the first to enter the French capital on the evening of 24 August 1944, with half-tracks...
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  • Is Paris Burning? (French: Paris brûle-t-il ?) is a 1966 epic black-and-white war film about the liberation of Paris in August 1944 by the French Resistance...
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    Lee Miller (category Art Students League of New York alumni)
    correspondent for Vogue, covering events such as the London Blitz, the liberation of Paris, and the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau. Her reputation...
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    The Order of Liberation (French: Ordre de la Libération) is a French Order which was awarded to heroes of the Liberation of France during World War II...
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  • 1944 Liberation of Paris - the freeing of the French capital in August 1944 Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine - advance (as the right flank of the...
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  • Rage in Paris" by Jim Lauderdale "All the Way (With John Wayne's Single-Handed Liberation of Paris)" by Caravan "Alle Synger en sang om Paris" by Einar...
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    with Allied troops as a journalist at the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris. He maintained permanent residences in Key West, Florida, in the...
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