Title:THE HEAD OF THE BRITISH MILITARY STAFF IN PARIS VISITS THE GOVERNOR OF PARIS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 144-2
Other titles:DE GAULLE ATTENDS A CHURCH SERVICE [Allocated Title]
Summary: Two sequences showing Allied activities in liberated Paris, September 1944.
Description: I. The head of the British military staff in Paris, Brigadier Carthew-Yorston, arrives at the Palace d'Invalides to pay his first official visit to General Koenig, the newly-appointed Governor of Paris and Commander-in-Chief of the FFI.
General de Gaulle, the head of the French Provisional Government, and General Koenig arrive at the church of Notre Dame des Victoires where a service commemorating the fifth anniversary of the German invasion of Poland is being held. Also present are FFI volunteers recently incorporated into the new French Army. While the service is in progress, armed guards keep watch from nearby rooftops. Afterwards, the church choir gives a rendering of the 'Marseillaise' on the steps outside the church for the high-ranking French VIPs. (This takes place earlier in the morning than the previous sequence.)
Alternative Title:DE GAULLE ATTENDS A CHURCH SERVICE [Allocated Title]
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Harris, L W J (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Carthew-Yorston (Brigadier) (person)
Koenig, Pierre (person)
Gaulle, Charles André Joseph Marie de (person)
Forces Francaises de l'Interieur (regiment/service)
French Army, Garde Republicaine (regiment/service)
French police (regiment/service)
Keywords: religion, Christianity (object name)
Military Mission (object name)
transport, British military - car: Humber Pullman staff car (object name)
arts, French - heraldry: flag, Tricolour (object name)
Paris, Département de Ville de Paris, France (geography)
