Church bells rang out across Paris on Thursday (25/8) as the city celebrated the 50th anniversary of its liberation from Nazi occupation. Fresh flowers adorned plaques marking the sites where some 2,000 French people died in street fighting in the final days before the Germans fled in August 1944.
SHOWS:
PARIS, FRANCE 25/8
choir singing inside notre dame cathedral
officials seated on pews
charles de gaulle's son philippe de gaulle
wide view crowd outside
priest ministers mass
bishops exit the cathedral in procession
british ambassador, sir christopher mallaby
foreign minister alain juppe outside in crowd
us ambassador pamela harriman
statue of gen le clerc at the Porte D'orleans
WS row of tanks
flag of second armoured division
french veterans PAN along line of french veterans
wreath of flowers
american veterans
french veterans
cu prime minister balladur
balladur inspecting troops
leotard, defence minister (right) jacques chirac mayor of paris
and balladur standing with widow of gen leclerc (in black hat)
balladur pins medal on veteran
veteran walking around with flag
president mitterrand making presentation to resistance leader
Church bells rang out across Paris on Thursday (25/8) as the city celebrated the 50th anniversary of its liberation from Nazi occupation. Fresh flowers adorned plaques marking the sites where some 2,000 French people died in street fighting in the final days before the Germans fled in August 1944.
SHOWS:
PARIS, FRANCE 25/8
choir singing inside notre dame cathedral
officials seated on pews
charles de gaulle's son philippe de gaulle
wide view crowd outside
priest ministers mass
bishops exit the cathedral in procession
british ambassador, sir christopher mallaby
foreign minister alain juppe outside in crowd
us ambassador pamela harriman
statue of gen le clerc at the Porte D'orleans
WS row of tanks
flag of second armoured division
french veterans PAN along line of french veterans
wreath of flowers
american veterans
french veterans
cu prime minister balladur
balladur inspecting troops
leotard, defence minister (right) jacques chirac mayor of paris
and balladur standing with widow of gen leclerc (in black hat)
balladur pins medal on veteran
veteran walking around with flag
president mitterrand making presentation to resistance leader
