{"id":1504,"date":"2012-07-14T08:32:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T14:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2012-07-14T08:32:37","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T14:32:37","slug":"this-week-in-the-war-8-14-july-1940-vive-langleterre-vive-la-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=1504","title":{"rendered":"This week in the War, 8–14 July 1940: Vive l’Angleterre! Vive la France!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>14 July, Bastille Day—in happier times a day of national celebration—was observed as a day of mourning throughout France, this week in the war, 1940.<\/p>\n

In London, General de Gaulle laid a wreath at the Cenotaph and inspected soldiers of the Free French army.<\/p>\n

His cries of “Vive l’Angleterre!” and “Vive la France!” were picked up and swept through the crowd.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In the Free Zone, the ceremonies held at the war memorials were small and sad. In the Occupied Zone, the Germans had outlawed the national tri-colour flag and forbade the singing of the Marseillaise<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This cover of Charles Glass’ Americans in Paris<\/em> depicts Wehrmacht officers relaxing in a Parisian caf\u00e9, Bastille Day, 1940.<\/p>\n

The book abounds with fascinating sketches of Paris during World War II: the Shakespeare & Company bookshop where Hemingway was one of the original ‘bunnies’ (from the French word abonn\u00e9<\/em>, meaning ‘subscriber\/borrower’), the remarkable 22-year-old Polly Peabody, the d\u00e9brouillarde<\/em> [i.e. resourceful—the compliment was paid to her by\u00a0Marshal P\u00e9tain, no less] American who had travelled through the chaos of Europe as Clare Boothe Luce had done a few weeks earlier; plus how life went on in general for US expats living in the ‘City of Light’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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