Title:THE STATUE OF KING EDWARD VII RETURNS TO PARIS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 148-2
Other titles:GENERAL KOENIG VISITS THE BRITISH MILITARY STAFF HEADQUARTERS [Allocated Title]
Summary: Two sequences.
Description: The first half of this footage contains further coverage of the ceremony in the Place d'Edouard VII in Paris when the equestrian statue of King Edward VII, who is popularly associated with the birth of the 'Entente Cordiale' between Great Britain and France at the beginning of the century, was returned to its plinth after four years of 'dethronement'. Later on in the same day, General Koenig, hero of Bir Hacheim and now Governor of Paris and Commander-in-Chief of the FFI, pays Brigadier Carthew-Yorston a visit at the latter's British military staff HQ.
Alternative Title:GENERAL KOENIG VISITS THE BRITISH MILITARY STAFF HEADQUARTERS [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: Koenig, Pierre (person)
Carthew-Yorston (Brigadier) (person)
Forces Francaises de l'Interieur (regiment/service)
Keywords: memorials and monuments (object name)
arts, British - heraldry: flag, Union Jack (object name)
arts, French - heraldry: flag, Tricolour (object name)
Military Mission (object name)
Paris, Département de Ville de Paris, France (geography)
