History: National day commemorating the appeal of June 18, 1940 by General de Gaulle

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Last Friday, General De Gaulle's appeal of June 18, 1940 was commemorated during a ceremony organized at the War Memorial located in the gardens of the Collectivity.

Refusing defeat and the prospect of an armistice with Nazi Germany, General de Gaulle joined England on June 17, 1940 to continue the fight. Thanks to the support of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, General de Gaulle launched an appeal to the French population on June 18, 1940 on the BBC. This appeal, of which very few traces remain, is considered the founding act of Free France.

In this context, a ceremony was held in front of the War Memorial in the Gardens of the Collectivity, in the presence of the Prefect, Serge Gouteyron, the President, Daniel Gibbs, the military and civil authorities and the Association des Anciens Combattants de Saint-Martin.

On this occasion, the pupils of the CM1 and CM2 classes of the Lamartine school sang the Marseillaise and the song of the combatants.

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