A chapter of history is closing: that of the active French military presence on the African continent, which will soon be reduced to a bare minimum after being a central element of France’s presence in its former colonial empire.
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Unlike the U.S.-Soviet showdown in 1962, Vladimir Putin’s allusions to his nuclear arsenal come with no sense of rules or limits, and with a more distant memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
On Aug. 24, 1944, the first French and U.S. armored tanks entered Paris, after a week of intense fighting with German soldiers — effectively freeing the capital from Nazi occupation. The next day, General Charles de Gaulle, who had been heading the French government-in-exile from London, made his impassioned “Paris Libéré !” speech from the Hôtel de Ville, roared on by a large crowd. It would take another nine months for Allied Forces to finally defeat Germany and put an end to World War II. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/Jn01pnyW3CY expand=1] The Joy of Liberated Paris (© Richard Boyer) OneShot is a new […]