With “Paris liberated (but the war still raging on other fronts), the Capital paid homage to those who freed it, and the newspaper Libération sponsored an exhibition at the Palais de Chaillot. It must have been important to Frenchmen at the time to emphasize the courage and glory of its Army of Resistance, and if this is done with lack of objectivity and at the expense of the forces of General Leclerc and the Allied Armies, then it is at least understandable. And yet, its overstatement is made all the more obvious and poignant by the solitary resistance fighter who seems to have the burden of shielding the entire city behind him” (Colin, p. 11).
Imp. S. A. Courbet, Paris
literature: Colin, 84; Colin Affichiste, 129