PARIS JUNE 18, 1949 (Avenue du GÉNÉRAL LECLERC) - Proclamati - Lot 596

PARIS JUNE 18, 1949 (Avenue du GÉNÉRAL LECLERC) - Proclamation from the City of PARIS - "On June 18, Paris will inaugurate, under the Presidency of General DE GAULLE, the Avenue du GÉNÉRAL-LECLERC... Who in Paris will ever forget that on August 24, 1944, through this former Avenue d'ORLÉANS, General LECLERC, at the head of the Second Armored Division, entered the city, which had already risen up against the enemy, and completed its liberation? ... General DE GAULLE, on behalf and in the service of France, collected the fruits of a solitary appeal on June 18th 1940... To welcome the Liberator of the Fatherland, to honor the memory of the Liberator of Paris, come one and all to the Porte d'Orléans (tomorrow Porte LECLERC) on June 18, 1949. Le Président du Conseil Municipal Philippe DE GAULLE - (Blason de PARIS et Croix de la Libération) - Imprimerie Municipale, 1949 - Poster (80 x 60) - Condition A