Paris Liberated: Rare, Unpublished - Photo Gallery - LIFE: In Paris on August 25th, 1944, Charles de Gaulle gave perhaps the most famous speech of his long, controversial career, addressing a crowd of thousands :
'Why do you desire that we hide the emotion which seizes us all, men and women, who are here, at home, in Paris ... ? No! We will not hide this deep and sacred emotion. These are minutes which go beyond each of our poor lives. Paris! Paris outraged! Paris broken! Paris martyred! But Paris liberated! Liberated by itself, liberated by its people with the help of the French armies, with the support and the help of all France, of the France that fights, of the only France, of the real France, of the eternal France!'"
Gorgeous.
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