This year, the Liberation of Paris turns 78 years old. On the occasion, the city hosts a series of traditional ceremonies on Wednesday August 24 and Thursday 25, 2022. Ceremonial drills, troop inspection, tributes to the dead and even exhibition…
From August 19 to 25, 1944, Paris was finally liberated from German occupation. It was the triumph of the Allies and fighting France, and the establishment of General de Gaulle as leader of a liberated and victorious France.
On August 16, 1944, a few days before the Liberation of Paris, French Resistance fighters were ambushed in the Bois de Boulogne and shot by SS officers and French Gestapo agents.
This Saturday August 25, 2018, Paris will celebrate the 74th anniversary of its Liberation. On the occasion a “commemoration-concert” followed by a screening of the movie “Is Paris Burning?” is to be discovered for free in front of the City Hall.
