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Place du 18-Juin-1940
Place du 18-Juin-1940 Review
Next to Tour Montparnasse, this square commemorates an impassioned radio broadcast Charles de Gaulle made from London on June 18, 1940. In it he urged the French to resist Nazi occupiers (who'd invaded the month prior), thereby launching the French Resistance Movement. It was also here that German military governor Dietrich von Choltitz surrendered to the Allies in August 1944, ignoring Hitler's orders to destroy the city as he withdrew.
- Address: Montparnasse, Paris | Map It
- Metro Montparnasse Bienvenüe.
- Location: Montparnasse
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