The investiture of French President René Coty in Paris, France. Outgoing President Vincent Auriol and incoming President René Coty arrive at the Élysée Palace. The investiture ceremonies at the Élysée Palace (55 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris, France). People gather in large numbers outside the Élysée Palace. At the Salon des Ambassadeurs of the Élysée Palace, Rene Coty is invested as the 19th President of France. The Insignia of the Grand Master of the Legion of Honour is placed on the neck of President René Coty. Photographers take pictures of the investiture.
A French woman mops stairs. A group of French women including Marie Dupont, works in a protective goggle manufacturing factory in Paris. A horse carriage on a Paris street near busy city markets. A blind accordion player plays music in street. Men and women shop at open market. Woman buys vegetables and produce and looks inside a butcher's meat shop. A horse bust sign above a horse meat shop. Shoes, sweaters, and other items on display in stores. Marie looks at a skirt in an open shop. Excerpt is from an anti-communist propaganda piece in the mid 1950s.
View of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France. A motorcade arrives at the monument. A large crowd gathers for a ceremony. Officials and dignitaries including French Prime Minister Joseph Laniel and French Defense Minister René Pleven stand by during the ceremony commemorating the sacrifices of French soldiers killed in the war in Indochina. View of wreaths at the site. Following the ceremony, Laniel and Pleven are escorted to separate waiting cars through a hostile crowd of angry French citizens and war veterans, upset by the recent removal of Marshal Juin from the Council of War, and opposed to the Pleven Plan for the European Defense Community or EDC. The officials finally reach their cars through the angry crowd and are driven away.
Air France DC-3 aircraft taxis to parking space after landing in Paris. Ground crewman guides it using paddles in his hands to signal the pilot. Dr. Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany, who arrived to participate in the London-Paris conferences determining the future of West Germany, is greeted by diplomats and officials as he descends from the aircraft.