The basement of the Third Arrondissement Town Hall (2 Rue Eugène Spuller, 75003 Paris, France) in Paris, location of the Civil Defense Center during World War II. A team of Civil Defense workers practice their plans for dealing with possible gas attack. Team members, wearing gas masks, gas proof hoods, suits, boots and gloves, enter and exit the shelter with stretchers. Doctors who are part of the response team go through the motions of treating persons posing as victims. Extra apparatus is seen in the basement center that produces electricity and ventilates the shelter in an emergency. View of the Notre Dame Cathedral.
Repatriation of French prisoners of war in Paris, France after World War II. Several trucks loaded with freed French prisoners of war moving along a road in Paris. People on both sides of the road wave to the men on the trucks. Men and women standing behind barriers on the road wave. The repatriated prisoners wave to them. Men leaning from the trucks, and shaking hands and embracing people. Several people around the truck. The trucks moving along the road. Repatriates getting down from the trucks with their belongings. A repatriate embracing a civilian. A girl running alongside a truck moving with the prisoners. The girl embracing a repatriate. Several people in the background.
Spanish artist Pablo Picasso with sculptures and paintings in his studio in Vallauris, France. Picasso walks from outdoors into his studio. Many small structures seen in the background. He displays two small statues. Painting of owl seen. Collage and modern art paintings seen. “Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine” by Picasso. He displays pots. He makes the famous She-goat sculpture.
Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother) visits Versailles in France. Her Rolls Royce Phantom car pulls up to the entrance of the Versailles palace. A man opens her car doors and moves aside. A uniformed officer holds the door and salutes, as the Queen Mother steps from the car and is greeted by a bearded gentleman in a turban, and French diplomats. She greets people in the receiving line and then enters the palace. Many press reporters and photographers follow. Later, the Queen Mother arrives by car, again, this time, dressed for dinner, wearing a triple pearl necklace. She is greeted cordially and escorted by a diplomat. Exterior views of Versailles, including the equestrian statue of Louis XIV.
V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day) celebrations in Paris, France at the end of World War II. Crowd of Parisians as they parade on streets on V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day). People with French flag along the street.
Liberated French returnees arrive to Paris, France. Child in a carriage. Carriage being loaded into a trolley. Returned Frenchmen after disembarking from U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 Skytrain transport plane. Returnees enter reception building. French honor band plays. Returnees enter into a building.
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