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Commemorative plaque of Radio Londres in the cemetery of Asnelles, Calvados. In 1940, the BBC opened its studio to the first members of the resistance who fled France's occupation by Germany. Radio Londres was born and would become the daily appointment of the French people for four years. It opened its transmission with : "Ici Londres ! Les ...
Les Français parlent aux Français was a daily radio broadcast in French transmitted on the BBC (Radio Londres).It was broadcast from the 14 July 1940: [1] [2] under the title Ici la France [3] [1] [2] then, from 6 September 1940 [3] [1] [2] to 31 August 1944, [1] under its better known name.
After the Fall of France in 1940, the BBC opened its studio to the first members of the Resistance who fled Occupied France. Radio Londres was born and would become the daily rendezvous of the French people for four years. It opened its transmission with, "Ici Londres. Les Français parlent aux Français..." ("This is London.
Articles and subcategories relating to the French Resistance during World War II. ... Radio Londres; Résistance Joué-du-Plain and the Assassination of Emile Buffon;
From 17 May 1943 to 24 September 1944, he was the daily presenter of Honneur et patrie, the programme for the French resistance, creating le Chant des partisans and announcing every day "Ici Londres, les Français parlent aux Français" ("This is London, the French talk to the French").
In preparation for Operation Overlord, the BBC's Radio Londres signalled to the French Resistance with the opening lines of the 1866 Verlaine poem "Chanson d'Automne" to indicate the start of D-Day operations under the command of the Special Operations Executive. The first three lines of the poem, "Les sanglots longs / des violons / de l ...
The French Resistance (French: La Résistance) was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy regime in France during the Second World War. Resistance cells were small groups of armed men and women (called the Maquis in rural areas) [2] [3] who conducted guerrilla warfare and published underground ...
Appeal of 18 June: General Charles de Gaulle, de facto leader of the Free French Forces, makes his first broadcast appeal over Radio Londres from London, rallying French Resistance. 23 June – BBC Forces Programme begins broadcasting Music While You Work. [18]