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The Appeal of 18 June — De Gaulle’s first BBC broadcast, 18 June 1940
At the BBC microphone, a temporary brigadier-general unknown to almost all refused the defeat four days before the armistice’s signature: “the flame of French resistance must not and shall not die.” Few heard it that evening — Free France was born. (Editorial synthesis)
The Appeal of 18 June took place on 18 June 1940. (source: Ministère des Armées and Archives nationales)
The Appeal of 18 June took place in London. (source: Ministère des Armées)
The Appeal of 18 June ended in an appeal few French people could hear, commemorated every year since the Liberation. (source: Ministère des Armées)
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