General De Gaulle’s family donates to the state the handwriting of the June 18, 1940 appeal.

General De Gaulle’s family will donate to the French state the manuscript of the June 18, 1940 appeal, addressed by the French general from London after the defeat of France, demanding that the battle against Nazi Germany continue to continue, the article said today. A ceremony for June 12 is scheduled to take place at the auction house, who in December managed the sale of the property of the older son of General, Admiral Philip de Gaulle, who died at the age of 102 in March 2024. He died in 1970, Artcurial said. The manuscript of the appeal, which was announced by London on June 18, 1940, via the BBC, was exposed for the first time before this auction, but was not available for sale. The two double -sided sheets, with many handwritten corrections, were originally kept by […]
Source: News Beast

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