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World Service,19 Dec 2002,3 mins

Jean Lacouture

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Journalist and writer Jean Lacouture recalls hearing BBC broadcasts made by French resistance leader General de Gaulle during the Nazi occupation of France. "Bordeaux was a city of despair...de Gaulle was saying the battle was lost but the war is not lost...in the despair it was a strong light."

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