Traffic at the Place de la Concorde. People of Paris buy the local newspaper. Headline of the Internation Herald Tribune refers to the first day of the Peace Talks. it reads, "Hanoi and U.S. Negotiators in Paris; Start of Peace Talks Set for Today." The picture shows Averell Harriman and Sargent Shriver along with a 3rd U.S. delegation member (Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. ?) Microphones on a table and other arrangements in the Centre De Conferences Internationales. Dignitaries enter the conference hall. Civilians and the press await the arrival of dignitaries oustside. The Vietnamese and the U.S. dignitaries arrive at the venue. Door closed as the Peace Talks begin. High view from a building patio of Paris with the Eiffel Tower in the background.
U.S. 7th Machine Gun Battalion in La Chapelle-sur-Chezy, France during World War I. The troops receive thanks. They stand in formation. U.S. General Joseph Theodore Dickman with a U.S. officer and the Prefet de l'Aisne with French officers thank each other. General Dickman speaks to the Prefet de l'Aisne. General Dickman stands with a man. A French officer smiles.
President De Gaulle speaking with Lady Bird Johnson and then shaking hands with Golda Meir, Foreign Minister of Israel. A translator from the U.S. State Department assists in the conversations. A French language interpreter of the State Department with the French President and First Lady. De Gaulle moves through the large room, shakes hands with the Foreign Minister of Israel Golda Meir. The French Ambassador in Washington is present at the event. Dignitaries served refreshments in the State Dining Room adjacent to the Jefferson Room. Policemen and civilians crowd outside the doors of a hall.
Paris under German occupation during World War II. A Frenchman reads the newspaper. Headlines about the War. The Notre Dame de Paris in the background. Parisians walk past a building in the city square. Flower stands and sidewalk cafes. A vegetable market. Sellers load and unload goods. German soldiers and military vehicles on the streets. Fishermen with their lines on the Seine. Family outings in the Bois de Boulogne. Children on rides in the park. People take boat rides. Women on chairs by the lake. Cyclists move along. Parisian families take rides in horse carriages. A race course in Paris. A large crowd of spectators watch the race. The race in progress.
Results of air assaults by the British Royal and U.S. Eighth Air Forces over industrial areas in German-occupied Paris during Wolrd War II. The Porte Des Lilas subway station in Paris. Aircraft machinery repair equipment which the Germans had begun to install in the converted Porte des Lilas subway. Civilians and Allied soldiers at the station. The lit dome in the subway. Damaged railway tracks. Men and women Allied soldiers. French policemen among the crowd. A soldier holds a little girl. Civilians in a line.
Uniformed U.S. war correspondents and U.S. Army officers explore the house and grounds of the French Chateau de Pont-Rilly, in Négreville near Normandy France, soon after the Invasion of Europe. (The chateau was designed in 1765 by architect Pierre-Raphaël de Lozon for the Marquis d'Ourville). U.S. Army officers in the balcony of the mansion overlooking the entrance. Exteriors of the palatial chateau. A large bomb hole is visible in the roof, right of the main entrance. A French boy points out something distant on the grounds of the Chateau. A swan in a pond. Exteriors of the mansion. At the end of July 1944, near the time this footage was shot, the chateau became the headquarters of Advance Section of Com Z, also known as "ADSEC" (Advance Section, Communications Zone).
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