Charles de Gaulle - De Gaulle allowed to entered Paris
Time: Sunday Aug 20, 1944
Place: Paris, France
Details: On 20 August; it allowed him to enter Paris as a liberator in the midst of the general euphoria. After the Germans had forcibly removed members of the Vichy government and taken them to Germany a few days earlier.
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