Charles de Gaulle14 June 1944
De Gaulle entered Bayeux during his first return to French soil since 1940.
France · Government / Government of France. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
De Gaulle entered Bayeux during his first return to French soil since 1940.
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