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Old 28th Apr 2006, 19:01
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cazatou
 
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All very chauvenistic, but it was the French who covered the evacuation from Dunkirk. It was the French who carried out the assault on Ouistraheim on the extreme left of the Allied assault on D Day. It was the French who defended the "Box" at Bir Hakeim prior to the Allied Offensive in 1942. It was the French under General Leclerc who were the first into Paris.

Let us not forget the 300,000+ FFI who rallied to the Allied cause, nor the price that their countrymen paid in places such as Ouradour sur Glane.

Yes,their reputation was sullied by the actions of the Vichy administration but, overall, the vast majority of the French population supported the Allied cause and did what they could to support it.
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