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Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque [b] [c] (22 November 1902 – 28 November 1947) was a Free-French general during World War II.He became Marshal of France posthumously in 1952, and is known in France simply as le maréchal Leclerc or just Leclerc.
Charles Leclerc was born on 17 March 1772 in Pontoise, Île-de-France. In 1791, he volunteered to join the French Royal Army, serving as a second lieutenant in the 12th Regiment of Chasseurs à Cheval before becoming an aide-de-camp to Jean François Cornu de La Poype.
The liberation of Strasbourg took place on 23 November 1944 during the Alsace campaign (November 1944 – March 1945) in the last months of World War II.After the liberation of Mulhouse on 21 November 1944 by the 1st Armored Division, [1] General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, and the 2nd Armored Division entered the city of Strasbourg in France after having liberated Sarrebourg and La ...
The route runs from Saint-Martin-de-Varreville on the English Channel coast, where the division landed in August 1944, to Strasbourg which was liberated by the division in November in completion of General Philippe Leclerc's Oath of Kufra. The scheme was set up in 2004 by the mayor of Saint-Martin and is now administered by the Leclerc Foundation.
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Aspects de la France was established in 1947 as a monarchist publication aligned with the Action Française movement. Its creation by Georges Calzant was a response to the prohibition of the daily L'Action française following allegations of collaboration with the Vichy regime in 1944. [1]
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]
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