The Old Port was partially destroyed in 1942. But already new buildings are being built. Le Corbusier also chose Marseille to build the Cité Radieuse, which will accommodate 1,500 people.
Le Havre is the most destroyed harbourg on the continent. While the war is over, men clear the ruins to make room for the new docks. Commentary on aerial views of the port and the excavation and recon...
At the start of the new school year, report on the construction of new schools and on the installation of temporary classrooms in prefabricated barracks to face the increase in the number of children.
In Chartres, the president René Coty pays tribute to Jean Moulin, first president of the national resistance council
Farmers demonstrate on the roads of France: hundreds of tractors have blocked the roads to alert public opinion to the difficulties faced by the peasants.
World rail speed record for the two new SNCF locomotives.
To manage the increase in the number of school children and students, classrooms in prefabricated materials have been installed in schools and colleges which have become too cramped.
Millions of Europeans, refugees and deportees, return to their homeland. The film shows the Americans' organized transfer of displaced persons, as well as the arrival in the Soviet zone of hundreds of...