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France remembers heroic liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation, 80 years ago

The crowd greets members of the French Forces of the Interior (FFI) and tanks of the Leclerc Division parading on August 26, 1944 down Rivoli street, the day after the Liberation of Paris. © AFP

France commemorates on Sunday the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Paris from German Nazi occupation, nine months before the end of World War II. RFI looks at what's being remembered and how.

On 25 August 1944, after a week of strikes, barricades and street battles, the capital welcomed General Charles de Gaulle, the leader of France's provisional government in exile, after four years of Nazi occupation.

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