Paris After the Liberation_ 1944 - 1949 - Antony Beevor [207]
On that afternoon of his radio broadcast, 30 May 1968, the General’s supporters gathered exultantly on the Place de la Concorde and the Champs-Élysées. ‘De Gaulle is not alone!’ they cried. Fromcrowds nearly a million strong, there emerged a variety of other slogans. The favourite was the chant ‘Le communisme ne passera pas!’ No doubt there were many present who had been supporters of Marshal Pétain; but the vast majority now regarded themselves as average Frenchmen, exasperated with political strikes and chaos in the Latin Quarter. The Sartrian road to freedomwas at an end. Radical ideas had failed to overcome the bourgeoisie.
The Gaulish leaders in league against Julius Caesar (100–44 BC), led by Vercingetorix (d. 46 BC), from a protective sleeve for school books, late nineteenth century.
Lutetia or the second plan of Paris in the fourth and fifth centuries AD, French School, 1722.
Sainte Geneviève gardant ses moutons, French School, sixteenth century.
The Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris.
Epitaph of François Villon (1431–?) from Le Grant Testament Villon et le petit, son codicille. Le jargon et ses balades, 1489.
‘Weighing of Souls’, French fifteenth-century stone carving.
Engraving of the danse macabre, artist unknown, 1493.
Portrait of Catherine de Médicis (1519–89), French School, sixteenth century.
Engraving of ‘La Cour des Miracles’.
Engraving of the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, Paris, 1572, by de Soligny.
Garden and Cirque at the Palais-Royal, Paris, by Hoffbauer, 1794
Engraving of the cemetery of the Saints-Innocents by Hoffbauer, nineteenth century.
Scène grivoise by François Boucher (1703–70).
‘The Sans-Culotte’, French School, nineteenth century.
‘A Meeting of Artists, Mudscrapers and Rag Merchants’, caricature of a popular café at the Palais-Royal in Paris, French School, c. 1800.
‘Gargantua’, caricature of Louis-Philippe I by Honoré Daumier, 1831.
Aerial view of Paris, c. 1871, showing public buildings, many of which were destroyed during the Paris Commune.
‘The Occupation of Paris, 1814 – English Visitors in the Palais-Royal’, English School, nineteenth century.
The bombardment of Paris, German School, c. 1870.
The siege of Paris, bombardment by the Prussians, 1870–71, French School, nineteenth century.
The construction of the avenue de l’Opéra, Paris, 1st and 2nd arrondissements, 1878.
Unidentified dead insurgents of the Paris Commune, 1871.
The construction of the avenue de l’Opéra, Paris, 1st and 2nd arrondissements, 1878.
Illustration by Jacques Tardi from Voyage au bout de la nuit by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1932.
André Breton, c. 1930.
‘Une maison close monacale, rue Monsieur-le-Prince (couple s’embrassant)’, silver print by Halász Gyula Brassaï, c. 1931.
Scene from the film Hôtel du Nord, directed by Marcel Carné, with Arletty and Louis Jouvet, 1938.
Liberation fighters in Paris, 1944.
French women punished for collaborating, 1944.
A policeman throws tear gas to disperse crowds during student riots in Paris, 17 June 1968.
Paris suburbs, 28 October 2005.
References
UNPUBLISHED SOURCES
AN
Archives Nationales, Paris
AVP
Archives Nationales, Paris
BD
Bruce Diaries, Virginia Historical Society
CDJC
Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine, Paris
DCD
Duff Cooper diary
DCP
Duff Cooper papers
DD
Diary of Brigadier Denis Daly, British Military Attaché
ICG
Archives Nationales, Paris
IFOP
Institut FranÇais d’Opinion Publique
JO
Journal Officiel
LC-AHP
Library of Congress, Averell Harriman papers
LDCP
Lady Diana Cooper papers
LDCP-CR
Diana Cooper correspondence with Conrad Russell
NARA