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LA RÉSISTANCE
-Aditi Parikh
“Honour, common sense, and the
interests of the country require that all
free Frenchmen, wherever they be,
should continue the fight as best they
may. Long live free France in honour
and independence!”
These words uttered by French
revolutionary Charles de Gaulle on 18th
June, 1940, roused the slumbering,
patriotic spirits of Frenchmen across the
nation. Following Germany’s landslide
victory in the six-week Blitzkrieg
campaign and the consequent Nazi
occupation of France, the rebellious
French forces were also unified by de Gaulle’s speech.
Spiteful sentiments were on an exponential rise in the country as the Vichy government of
France colluded with German officials resulting in the deportation of 75,700 French Jews
