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Charles de Gaulle

De Gaulle the assurance in person that a French force would liberate Paris

1943
Algeria

In Algiers in 1943, Eisenhower gave de Gaulle the assurance in person that a French force would liberate Paris and arranged that the army division of French General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque would be transferred from North Africa to the UK to carry out that liberation.


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