Silent images of Paris monuments.
This film document shows a ceremony of homage to the resistance fighters of the pharmaceutical laboratory Orga in Avignon, during which a memorial is unveiled. First, the officials (a prefect and a ge...
In Chartres, the president René Coty pays tribute to Jean Moulin, first president of the national resistance council
Commemorative ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe where two survivors of Dachau, dressed in their prisoner costume, lay a wreath. A delegation of former prisoners rekindles the flame while others make a h...
The city of Warsaw is in ruins. A ceremony commemorates it, in the presence of Boleslaw Bierut and of the French Ambassador.
Installation of a TV antenna at the top of the Eiffel Tower.
The ruins left by the war will be replaced by cities and buildings designed by architects. We already see some of their achievements, compared to the monuments of the past.