Grey plaque № 30072
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# 13 Palace Street: Where Free France Kept the Fight Alive at Sea Standing at 13 Palace Street, you're looking at the unlikely headquarters where France's naval resistance was coordinated during its darkest hour—a townhouse that became the nerve centre for Free French sailors determined to continue...
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13 Palace Street
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La vague ne détruit pas le granit. Vous, marins de la France Libre, ce que vous avez fait pour la France en poursuivant la lutte sur la mer, envers et contre tout, dans le plus grand drame de notre histoire, rien, ni le temps, ni les passions, ne l'effaceront jamais. Je vous salue, mes camarades. Charles de Gaulle. The Free French Naval Forces H.Q. were harboured in this House by the British people 1940 - 1945. Translation: The wave does not destroy the granite. You, sailors of Free France, which you made for France by continuing the fight on the sea, towards and against all, in the greatest drama of our history, nothing, neither time, nor passions, will never erase it.I greet you, my comrades. Charles de Gaulle. The Free French Naval Forces H.Q. were harboured in this House by the British people 1940 - 1945.