Charles de Gaulle's arrival in liberated Paris (08.25.1944)

View of the Hotel de Ville in front of the Paris City Hall on August 25, 1944. The Paris City Hall building.

Jubilant Parisians.

A man in a jeep next to the driver.

Tanks of General Leclerc's army on the streets of Paris, Parisians salute the soldiers.

People gather in front of the City Hall on the Hotel de Ville.

Parisians salute the soldiers and give them flowers.

An officer delivers a speech into a microphone.

Young women hug and kiss the soldiers.

A view of the Star Fruit with the Arc de Triomphe and troops lined up in front of it.

General Charles de Gaulle and his entourage approach the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

A wreath on the tombstone.

De Gaulle at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

De Gaulle's motorcade moves through Paris (top).

Tanks escorting de Gaulle's motorcade move along the Champs-Élysées past jubilant Parisians.

De Gaulle and his entourage walk along the Champs-Élysées, returning the salutes of Parisians.

Military vehicles move along the Champs-Élysées.

De Gaulle walks along the Champs-Élysées.

The faces of children and adults.

Parisians greet de Gaulle.

Voska and Resistance fighters walk along the Champs-Élysées.

Panorama of the Place de la Concorde (above), a plane flies over the square.

Parisians greet de Gaulle and the troops passing through Paris.

De Gaulle rides in an open car and returns salutes, the faces of Parisians.

Views of Paris during de Gaulle's passage (above).

De Gaulle gets out of the car, stopped at the Town Hall.

Troops in formation.

People in the square wave in greeting.

De Gaulle rises to the microphone on the steps of the Town Hall.

Views of the Place de la Hôtel de Ville before de Gaulle's speech.

A statue atop a column.