spoken in a public square in Bayeux (formerly Place du Château, since 1946 Place de Gaulle). A few days after the Normandy invasion, de Gaulle wanted to...

18 Sept 1943. Pelosse placed in charge of sabotage training of the Maquis de Saffré. Having completed his mission, Pelosse returned to the UK via Bayeux...

at the time as the ‘place du Fourneau’, housed about 20 soldiers. An officer would conduct a drill every morning in the square out front. The officers were...

hundred Maquis resistance fighters holed up in a place called La Grotte (The Cave). Fighting resulted in 39 dead attackers and 6 dead Maquis with 4 wounded...

Regime became interested in him and he participated in the creation of the maquis Rene Laforge. He eventually died during a shootout between resistance and...