Panorama of Place de L'Opera (Place de l'Opéra - 75002 Paris) in Paris, France. Heavy traffic of horses and carriages. Horse-drawn Bus with routing painted on its roof edge reading: Gare-St Lazare-Opera-Bourse-Les Halles. The Opera House, itself, seen prominently. Only one horseless carriage is seen. It appears to be 4-wheeled bicycle with single driver on top and front open seat for passenger(s). It looks to be belt driven (right rear wheel) possibly electric.
Report on the atom in Paris, France. Joliot-Curie's car enters AEC (Atomic Energy Commission) office. Signs "Commission", "Haute Cour De Justice, Dans Le Hall Ascenseur" and "Commissariat A Lenergie Atomique". Joliot-Curie and Bertrand Goldschmidt talk. Jean Frederic Joliot-Curie, French physicist in office talks with Pierre Biquard and dictates to a secretary. A meeting of French Scientific committee. Frederic Joliot-Curie, Irene Joliot-Curie, Lew Kowarski, Francis Perrin are present. The members examine a piece of Uranium ore on a desk.
The activities of French soldiers (likely 407th Infantry Regiment) during World War I in Verdun, France. Battlefield sites shown include Vaux Chapitre, Le Bois Fumin, and La Haie Renard. French soldiers stand outside pillboxes in a battle fort area. French artillery fires from a pillbox dug into the hillside. Smoke rises in the foreground. Battlefield landscape views.
French women accused as traitors are punished by public humiliation in Cherbourg, France in World War II. Women accused as German collaborationists stand on the road. Women crying. Angry crowds shave the women's hair. The crowd cheers. Women with shaved heads. Crowd gathered on the streets. A sign in French reads 'Le Char es Collaborateuses'.
General Charles De Gaulle's parade in Paris, France following liberation of Paris. Few officers go up to a motor vehicle. People on the road side watch. General Charles De Gaulle with the officers. Tanks on side of the road. Several soldiers on the road. General De Gaulle salutes. Several men around. Officers with the General also salute. General Charles De Gaulle lays flowers on tomb of unknown soldier, at Arch de Triomphe, and salutes. Other officers accompany the General. The General with the officers march in the street. Few men hold flags. People from buildings watch. A board with the letters 'FFI' in view. Several men in a line march on the road. A large crowd in front of a building. The civilians wave to the General. The General with the other officers on the street. Tanks and motorcycles on the road. People on either side of the road. A man with a camera taking pictures. A child perched on a woman's shoulder. Few officers seen. Men and women wave to the General. Three vehicles parked on a roadside. Men near the vehicle. A man lying on the ground with a gun. A motorcycle on the side of road. Few people seated on the road side. Soldiers talk to them. Two motor vehicles parked on the road. Few men run into a building. The building has the letters 'Le Rallye' written on it. (World War II period).
French women traitors or women collaborationists with shaved heads along the side of the road after Allied liberation of Cherbourg, France in World War II. A few women are seen seated, and a few are standing. Two boys holding a banner behind them. A man on a walkway picks up a pile of hair and tosses it in air. A group of men standing. A man trying to cut the hair of a woman. The woman bending over not letting the man. Another woman sits beside her. A man shaves the hair of the woman. 'Le Char Des Collaboratrices' written on a banner. A group of people move in a truck. One of the men holding the banner. A few men and women beside the truck.
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