• the French torpedo boat La Combattante ferried General de Gaulle and other Free French leaders across the English Channel from Portsmouth to Courseulles in Normandy on 14 July 1944?
• in June 1944, during the invasion of Elba the Free French assault division included 200 mules?
• in 1939 René Pleven stated "Politics do not interest me", only to join the Free French exile government in 1941 and thus launch a long political career?
• Radio Londres, a Free French radio broadcast from London to Nazi occupied France, read Paul Verlaine's poem Chanson d'automne as a code to inform the resistance that Operation Overlord was about to take place?

Facts on topics related to Free French

Free French Forces

• Free French Forces liberated all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy France in November 1940 in the Battle of Gabon?
• the Free French corvette Aconit was awarded the Ordre de la Libération for her service in World War II?

Free France

• French general Jean Touzet du Vigier served four governments in World War II – the Third Republic, the Vichy regime, Free France, and the Fourth Republic?