Final preparations before Memorial Day ceremonies at the Suresnes cemetery in 1919. The Hillside at Suresnes cemetery is filled with spectators and an honor guard cordon of French soldiers in uniform, surrounds the cemetery proper. Large American flag flies at half mast. Several women and a child walk on path. People surround a covered monument in center of the cemetery. Rows of crosses mark graves of the fallen. French tricolor flag flying high in the background. Crosses decorated with small American and French flags. A monument at center of cemetery is covered with flowers and flags. An American army officer walks up to the monument and appears to be inspecting everything.
Group of United States military officers. Colonel Edward Mandell House, American diplomat and politician, sharing information. Georges Benjamin Clemenceau, Prime minister of France and Ferninand Foch, Marshal of France leaving a building in Paris. View of Hotel Elysees Palace and Hotel Crillon (6 Pl. de la Concorde, 75008 Paris, France). Arrival and departure of guests at Hotel Crillon. Admiral William S. Benson, Chief of U.S. Naval Operations and Henry white, a prominent U.S. diplomat leaving Hotel Crillon.
A large crowd gathered near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris during the Allied liberation of the city in World War 2. Throngs of Parisians in a crowd. French men and women standing in front of the Arc de Triomphe (Place Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France). Over the French civilians, inscription of the Arc de Triomphe reads “Engen Moeskirch Hochstett” (after French victories during the Napoleonic era). Men and women started running, some with bicycles, on the sidewalk of Rue de Rivoli. French and British flags adorn the storefront of Bally (Swiss fashion luxury house). French 2nd Armored Division troops and some French resistance fighters fire machine guns (Browning M1919) at German snipers across the Hôtel De Nice (42 Bis Rue de Rivoli, 75004 Paris, France), near the Hôtel de Ville (Place de l'Hôtel de Ville, 75004 Paris, France). French soldier with cigarette on his mouth with Browning M1919 machine gun. Browning M1919 machine gun moves its aim and shoots. American flag hangs on window of a building.
View from hillside at Suresnes cemetery, near Paris, France, on Memorial Day, 1919. French troops in uniform are massed around an American flag flying at the top of a tall flag pole.
Exteriors of the Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées building (3 Av. du Général Eisenhower, 75008 Paris, France) in Paris, France. Pedestrians and vehicular traffic outside the buildings. A statue of a French soldier and a woman on a pedestal outside the north exterior of the Grand Palais. A cannon is positioned on either side of the monument. Visiting American soldiers and sailors look at the statue. Vehicular traffic including pre 1920's automobiles and some horse carts on Champs Elysees, as seen from camera point of view near ground level, amid traffic. A woman and girl cross the road. Arc De Triomphe in the background. The scene changes to exterior view of the Petit Palais building (Av. Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris, France) in Paris, with cars, horse carts, and pedestrians walking nearby. In the background, a different statue of what appears to be a soldier and a woman, again flanked by cannons on either side, is seen outside the Petit Palais. Next scene is a closer view of the Arc de Triomphe (Pl. Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France), as seen from middle of the Champs Elysees, amid early automobile and car traffic.
Officials arrive for the Paris Peace Conference in Paris, France. Officers in uniforms pose for a photograph. United States Navy Admiral Benson and United State Ambassador to France Henry C. White leave the Hotel Crillon building (10 Pl. de la Concorde, 75008 Paris, France). They read the document in hand. Henry C. White speaks with the officials. French Premier Georges Clemenceau and Marshal Ferdinand Foch get inside a car. View of the Élysée Palace (55 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris, France) with flags in the foreground. People walking in the street.