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For the historian Éric Alary, [6] the partitioning of France into two main zones, libre and occupée, was partly inspired by the fantasy of pan-Germanist writers, particularly a work by a certain Adolf Sommerfeld, published in 1912 and translated into French under the title Le Partage de la France, which contained a map [7] showing a France partitioned between Germany and Italy according to a ...
The Mémorial de la France combattante (Memorial to Fighting France) is the most important memorial to French fighters of World War II (1939–1945). It is situated below Fort Mont-Valérien in Suresnes, in the western suburbs of Paris. It commemorates members of the armed forces from France and the colonies, and members of the French ...
Free France (French: France libre) was a resistance government claiming to be the legitimate government of France following the dissolution of the Third Republic during World War II. Led by General Charles de Gaulle, Free France was established as a government-in-exile in London in June 1940 after the Fall of France to Nazi Germany.
The campaign was under the command of Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark of the U.S. Fifth Army.The commander of the corps was General Alphonse Juin, future Maréchal de France, Juin was himself a pied-noir from Bone in Algeria who had commanded Arabs and Berbers much of his life. [11]
According to historian Henri Bernard , De Gaulle went on to accept his proposal, but took care to exclude all his adversaries within the Free France movement, such as Émile Muselier, André Labarthe and others, retaining only "yes men" in the group. [3] The CNF was founded 24 September 1941 by an edict signed by General de Gaulle in London.
Consisting of troops from mainland France and from the then French colonial empire, the division was formed by the first units to rally to de Gaulle after the fall of France. Together with the 3rd Algerian Infantry Division , it was the most decorated French division of the Second World War.
Dictionnaire historique de la Résistance [Historical Dictionary of the Resistance]. Paris: Robert Laffont. ISBN 2-221-09997-4. Jennings, Eric T. (2014). La France libre fut africaine [Free France was African]. Paris: Perrin. ISBN 978-2-262-04739-9.. Le général Leclerc et l'Afrique française libre, 1940-1942: Actes du colloque. Fondation ...
De Sousa David, La Reconstruction et sa Mémoire dans les villages de la Somme 1918–1932, Editions La vague verte, 2002, 212 pages Bonnard Jean-Yves, La reconstitution des terres de l'Oise après la Grande Guerre: les bases d'une nouvelle géographie du foncier , in Annales Historiques Compiégnoises 113–114, pp. 25–36, 2009.