The event is sizeable.
Perhaps comparable to the installation of the Unknown Soldier in 1921. With the burial of Hubert Germain at Mont-Valérien, the great gesture of Free France enters definitively into history.
From now on, it will be for future generations comparable to the companions of Du Guesclin or to the chouannerie: intrepid young people.
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ...
By creating the Companions of the Liberation, General de Gaulle wanted to prepare France according to: among the 1,038, men and women, students, artisans, workers, priests, civil servants.
He thought - hoped - that the steel of this phalanx forged in the struggles for the liberation of Europe could form the backbone of French society.
If many paid for their commitment with their lives, in fact, from 1945, we find the Messmer, the Pleven, the Gary, and ordinary French people like Emilienne Moreau-Évrard or Albert Floch, a leg amputated in Syria, who
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