« A stranger to any denominational formalism as well as to any allegedly racial solidarity, I have felt during my entire life, above all and very simply French. Attached to my homeland by an already long family tradition, nourished by its spiritual heritage and its history, unable in truth to be able to conceive of […]
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POETRY chosen for French resistance f...
From June 1st to June 5th, 1944, Radio-London, with the special authorization given by Churchill to De Gaulle’s Radio Team, using the BBC antennas, did repeat several times the first 3 verses of Paul Verlaine’s poetry named ‘Fall Song’ or ‘Chanson d’Automne’, starting with « Les sanglots longs des violons de l’automne ». They were coded messages […]