Paris '44: The City of Light Redeemed by Mortimer Moore William

Author:Mortimer Moore, William
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781612003443
Publisher: Casemate
Published: 2015-11-19T08:00:00+00:00

AT AROUND 11AM PIERRE TAITTINGER heard that Nordling’s truce was official. Cars with loudspeakers announced the ceasefire in French and German while, at the Hôtel de Ville, a Garde Republicaine sounded the recall with a bugle.

At the Secrétariat Général building Madame Miret, an official’s wife, arranged lunch for both the internees and their guards, setting up a well laid table in the vestibule. Everyone was surprisingly hungry and the food, though plentiful, disappeared quickly. Résistant Fournier telephoned the Hôtel de Ville to ask Lieutenant Stéphane if he might release Taittinger and his colleagues, but Stéphane insisted that the truce changed nothing. Surprised by Stéphane’s intransigence, Fournier advised Taittinger to plead his case with the Commissaires du Peuple (People’s Commissars) who had set up a tribunal at the Hôtel de Ville.115

Outside once again, Taittinger recognised the report of Mausers exchanging fire with the FFIs’ diverse weaponry. Not all Resistance factions would willingly cease combat.116

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