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After the fighting in North Africa ended, Leclerc's L Force, now about 4,000 strong, became the 2e Division Française Libre (2e DFL). In June 1943, de Gaulle informed him the 2e DFL would be re-equipped by the Americans as an armoured division, the 2e Division Blindée (2 e DB). It was often called La Division Leclerc. Although organised along ...
Lycée Français de La Havane Alejo Carpentier, formerly École Française de la Havane "Alejo Carpentier" (Spanish: Escuela Francesa de La Habana "Alejo Carpentier"), is a French international school with two campuses in Siboney in Playa, Havana, Cuba: one for primary school and one for collège and lycée (junior and senior high school).
The 2nd Brigade of the 8th Armored Division 'qui est l'heritière des traditions de la 2e DB' – carried on the traditions of the 2nd Armored Division. [ 12 ] The French Army was extensively reorganised in 1977, with three-brigade divisions being dissolved and small divisions of four or five manoeuvre regiments/battalions being created. [ 13 ]
The Fédération nationale des étudiants d'Action française (National Federation of Action Française Students) was an organization uniting student activists of the Action Française movement. The first Action Française Students' Association was created on December 8, 1905, in Paris by Lucien Moreau , [ 1 ] and was strengthened in 1913 with ...
The association of Royalist Young Women is intended to unite all young women who wish to contribute to the work of national revival undertaken by Action Française. According to Léon Daudet, the association originated from the efforts of Mlle de Montlivaut in 1905 in the Loir-et-Cher region and Parisian activists who read L'Action française ...
In 1899, Maurice Pujo and Henri Vaugeois left the French nationalist movement Ligue de la Patrie française and established a new one, called Action Française, and its official journal, Revue de l'Action Française. This was their nationalist reaction against the intervention of left-wing intellectuals on the behalf of Alfred Dreyfus. [21]
On the morning of 28 November, General Leclerc attended a military ceremony in Arzew, then headed to La Sénia Aerodrome, where his personal aircraft, a B-25 Mitchell named Tailly 2 (Tailly is the name of a commune in the Somme where the Leclerc family estate is located, and also the name of his command tank during the war), awaited him.
The general proposed the creation of a distinctive award for the members of the Free French Forces who fought the Axis forces on most fronts during World War II. Beginning with a modest 7,000 men in July 1940, the Free French Forces had grown to approximately 70,000 by June 1942 [ 1 ] and were especially active in North Africa, where they ...