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    The First Bayeux Speech was a speech delivered by General Charles de Gaulle of France in the context of liberation after the Normandy landings in June...
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    The Second Bayeux speech was a speech delivered by General Charles de Gaulle of France in the immediate postwar period on 16 June 1946. It was one of his...
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  • Gaulle): First Bayeux speech, 1944 Second Bayeux speech, 1946 This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Bayeux speeches. If an internal...
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    First Bayeux speech, delivered by General Charles de Gaulle of France in the context of liberation after the Normandy landings. 1944: Patton's Speech...
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    The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidered cloth nearly 70 metres (230 feet) long and 50 centimetres (20 inches) tall that depicts the events leading up to...
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    the first major town secured by the Allies during Operation Overlord after D-Day. Charles de Gaulle made two famous speeches in this town. Bayeux is a...
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    later married Herluin de Conteville, with whom she had two sons – Odo of Bayeux and Count Robert of Mortain – and a daughter whose name is unknown. One...
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    beachheads at each of the five landing sites on the first day, but Carentan, Saint-Lô, and Bayeux remained in German hands. Caen, a major objective, was...
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  • liberated town in France. Here he made a speech that established that he was popular even with the people of Bayeux, who were seen as naturally pro-Vichy...
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  • precursors such as Trajan's Column, in Rome, Egyptian hieroglyphs and the Bayeux Tapestry. The earliest examples of humans using illustration for storytelling...
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    Poland. The meeting was secretly arranged by the Vendroux family. Their first date was to the Grand Palais during the fall exhibition to see the painting...
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  • ISBN 978-0-313-30328-9. De Gaulle, Charles (June 16, 1946). "Discours de Bayeux [Speech of Bayeux]" (in French). charles-de-gaulle.org. Archived from the original...
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    the eldest, and last surviving, child of General Charles de Gaulle, the first president of the French Fifth Republic, and of his wife, Yvonne. De Gaulle...
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  • client-side JavaScript implementations. Bayeux is based on a publish/subscribe model, so servers supporting Bayeux have publish/subscribe built-in. The BOSH...
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    of the character are a Flemish painting (c. 1571–1572) in the Museum of Bayeux and several woodblock prints probably dating from the 1580s in the Fossard...
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    operated by the BBC, and the world's largest. It broadcasts radio news, speech and discussions in more than 40 languages. Other major players in the UK...
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    and a repetition of the stroke terminated his life. He died at Héril near Bayeux. By his marriage with Mademoiselle de Cussy he left three daughters, one...
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    Arromanches and establish contact with the American forces at Omaha, capture Bayeux and the small port at Port-en-Bessin, and to link up with the Canadian forces...
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    interest in the 900-year-old Bayeux Tapestry. In June 1941, its staff oversaw the transport of the tapestry from its home in Bayeux Cathedral to an abbey at...
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    the word used in the Bayeux speech), an institutional operating mode known as "cohabitation" ever since it emerged for the first time following the 1986...
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    Tolkien armed and equipped much like that of the armies depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry. He noted further that his walking forest was partly a response...
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    crossed) appear, for instance, in the "running text" (in Latin) of the Bayeux tapestry in proper names such as EDVVARDVS and VVILLELMVS (or the same with...
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    Egyptian hieroglyphs, Trajan's Column in Rome, the 11th-century Norman Bayeux Tapestry, the 1370 bois Protat woodcut, the 15th-century Ars moriendi and...
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  • J.R.R. Tolkien, the author compared the war-gear of the Rohirrim to the Bayeux Tapestry, made during the Norman Conquest of Anglo-Saxon England. Battle...
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    objectives of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division on D-Day were to cut the Caen-Bayeux road, seize the Carpiquet airport west of Caen, and form a link between...
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    notable group lived on the Normandy coast, near Bayeux. In 589, the Saxons from the Bessin region near Bayeux wore their hair in the Breton fashion at the...
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    of Media and Marketing for his work on Guiti News. Mortaza Behboudi is Bayeux Calvados-Normandy War Correspondents Prize and Prix Varenne winner in the...
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    Public Service, Deutsche Welle Freedom of Speech Award, the Knight International Journalism Awards, Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award, Elijah Parish Lovejoy...
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    wrote: The Rohirrim were not "medieval", in our sense. The styles of the Bayeux Tapestry (made in England) fit them well enough, if one remembers that the...
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    which had been intended for an offensive against Allied positions around Bayeux. Operation Overlord called for the British Second Army (Lieutenant-General...
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