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Lorraine

Rue du 18 Juin

Charles de Gaulle

(Lille 1890 - Colombey-les-Deux-Églises 1970)
President of France 1959-1969
(Wikipedia)

Albert de Jaeger
1990

Description

Plaque with small portrait medallion of De Gaulle, which is a reduced copy of the medallion in Nancy.

Inscription(s)

la France a perdu
une bataille
mais la France n'a pas
perdu la guerre

londres le 18 juin 1940
CHARLES de GAULLE
commemoration du cinquantenaire a art/meurthe
18 juin 1990

The small portrait is signeda de jaeger
tha plaque is signed c. pawlak m

Annotation

The plaque refers to De Gaulle's appeal of 18 June 1940.

Sculptor

Albert de Jaeger (Roubaix 1908 - 1992), French sculptor and medalist (Wikipedia).

Location (N 48°39'23" - E 6°15'55")

Item Code: frlo117; Photograph: 15 June 2011
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