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Paris et des autres choses français. / Paris and other French things. Posting more than just pretty pictures of the Eiffel Tower, because Paris is more than it's most iconic symbol. It's the city of light. There's romance and beauty; grime and grit; the Eiffel Tower and the Arc du Triomphe; the Louvre and graffiti; SDF (homeless) and the 16th arrondissement. All these elements and more will be here.

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Paris, well-named City of Light. Even from orbit the brilliant Champs-Elysees is visible.

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Ralph Morse—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Unpublished. Parisians celebrate the liberation of the City of Light, August 1944.

Read more: http://life.time.com/history/paris-liberated-rare-unpublished/#ixzz247gipUqY

The Liberation of Paris (also known as the Battle for Paris) took place during World War II from 19 August 1944 until the surrender of the occupying German garrison on 25 August. The Liberation of Paris started with an uprising by the French Resistance against the German garrison. On 24 August, the French Forces of the Interior (Forces françaises de l’intérieur, FFI) received reinforcements from the Free French Army of Liberation and from the U.S. Third Army under General Patton. The capital region of France had been governed by Nazi Germany since the signing of the Second Compiègne Armistice in June 1940, when the German Army occupied northern and westmost France, and when the puppet regime of Vichy France was established in the town of Vichy in central France.

This battle marked the liberation of Paris and the exile of the Vichy government to Sigmaringen in Germany. However, there was still much heavy fighting to be done before France was liberated, including the Operation Anvil Dragoon amphibious landings in southmost France in September (near Marseilles), along the German-held seaports of western France (such as at Brest and Dunkirk), in Alsace Lorraine in eastmost France, and in northeastern France, such as along the Rhine River. The Wehrmacht fought doggedly in these areas for the rest of 1944.

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Oscar Wilde’s grave at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris

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Rue Poncelet - Paris (France) by Meteorry, on Flickr

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Snapshot by ChodHound, on Flickr

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Paris, Cathédrale Notre Dame by Calinore, on Flickr

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Paris, quais de Seine by Calinore, on Flickr

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Boulevard Haussmann by Airicsson, on Flickr

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Paris, rue de la Roquette by Calinore, on Flickr

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waiting for the laundry by fomu, on Flickr