[WW2 - GENERAL DE GAULLE]


Very beautiful photographic portrait 
of General de Gaulle

 Gelatin Argentic print 
around 1971


Photo format: approx. 24x18cm

 
Good condition, clean,
small various minor friction, on corners
Discreet pin holes at 4 corners

 see visuals ...


The General de GAULLE Memorial

 The Memorial project was born during the lifetime of Charles de Gaulle who declared in 1954 to a journalist,
 looking in the direction of the locality, the mountain : “See this hill. It is the highest place in Colombey. 
A Cross of Lorraine will be built there when I am dead ”. 

He would have added: “Since there is no one there, no one will see her. 
She will incite the rabbits to resistance », According to a joke reported by André Malraux.

The Cross of Lorraine
After the death of General De Gaulle on November 9, 1970, a national committee placed under the high patronage 
Georges Pompidou, President of the Republic and supported by the "Gaullist barons" constituted itself on 23 Mars 1971 in Colombey erect a monument symbol of Free France. He launched a national subscription collecting several million donations. This subscription, well relayed by French diplomatic missions abroad, is also very successful internationally and funds arrive from more than 67 countries making it possible to collect a total of 5.5 million francs. This sum will make it possible to erect a monument but also to acquire 35 hectares of land around and on which will be planted 1,000 cedars of Lebanon offered by Lebanon in addition. 
for its significant financial contribution.

12 projects are in competition and it is the project of architects Marc Nebinger and Michel Mosser 
which is selected: a cross of Lorraine in prestressed reinforced concrete 44.30 meters high for a total weight without foundations of 950 tonnes, coated with a pink granite facing from Perros-Guirec and dressed with 10 mm bronze surfaces thick and 1.68 meters long, for a total weight of 16 tonnes, from an Alsatian foundry. Nearly 350 journeyman craftsmen will work on the realization of the monument. It was inaugurated by President Georges Pompidou on June 18, 1972, the thirty-second anniversary of the appeal of June 18.

This photograph was offered by the National Memorial Committee to René Clavel,
President of the National Union of deportees, internees and victims of war (UNDIVG), 
as a thank you to participation funding for the memorial 
(the first association of war victims to have sent a check ...)

Very rare document, signed and dedicated on the back by the Secretary General of the Committee

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As always, grouped shipping costs in the event of the purchase of several photographs ...




 
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    [WW2 - GENERAL DE GAULLE] Very beautiful photographic portrait  of General de Gaulle  Gelatin Argentic print  around 1971 Photo format: approx. 24x18cm   Good condition, clean, small various minor friction, on corners Discreet pin holes at 4 corners  see visuals ... The General de GAULLE Memorial A Cross of Lorraine will be built there when I am dead ”.  He would have added: “Since there is no one there, no one will see her.  The Cross of Lorraine for its significant financial contribution. This photograph was offered by the National Memorial Committee to René Clavel, President of the National Union of deportees, internees and victims of war (UNDIVG),  as a thank you to participation funding for the memorial  (the first association of war victims to have sent a check ..
[WW2 - GENERAL DE GAULLE] Very beautiful photographic portrait  of General de Gaulle  Gelatin Argentic print  around 1971 Photo format: approx. 24x18cm   Good condition, clean, small various minor friction, on corners Discreet pin holes at 4 corners  see visuals ... The General de GAULLE Memorial A Cross of Lorraine will be built there when I am dead ”.  He would have added: “Since there is no one there, no one will see her.  The Cross of Lorraine for its significant financial contribution. This photograph was offered by the National Memorial Committee to René Clavel, President of the National Union of deportees, internees and victims of war (UNDIVG),  as a thank you to participation funding for the memorial  (the first association of war victims to have sent a check ..
[WW2 - GENERAL DE GAULLE] Very beautiful photographic portrait  of General de Gaulle  Gelatin Argentic print  around 1971 Photo format: approx. 24x18cm   Good condition, clean, small various minor friction, on corners Discreet pin holes at 4 corners  see visuals ... The General de GAULLE Memorial A Cross of Lorraine will be built there when I am dead ”.  He would have added: “Since there is no one there, no one will see her.  The Cross of Lorraine for its significant financial contribution. This photograph was offered by the National Memorial Committee to René Clavel, President of the National Union of deportees, internees and victims of war (UNDIVG),  as a thank you to participation funding for the memorial  (the first association of war victims to have sent a check ..
[WW2 - GENERAL DE GAULLE] Very beautiful photographic portrait  of General de Gaulle  Gelatin Argentic print  around 1971 Photo format: approx. 24x18cm   Good condition, clean, small various minor friction, on corners Discreet pin holes at 4 corners  see visuals ... The General de GAULLE Memorial A Cross of Lorraine will be built there when I am dead ”.  He would have added: “Since there is no one there, no one will see her.  The Cross of Lorraine for its significant financial contribution. This photograph was offered by the National Memorial Committee to René Clavel, President of the National Union of deportees, internees and victims of war (UNDIVG),  as a thank you to participation funding for the memorial  (the first association of war victims to have sent a check ..
[WW2 - GENERAL DE GAULLE] Very beautiful photographic portrait  of General de Gaulle  Gelatin Argentic print  around 1971 Photo format: approx. 24x18cm   Good condition, clean, small various minor friction, on corners Discreet pin holes at 4 corners  see visuals ... The General de GAULLE Memorial A Cross of Lorraine will be built there when I am dead ”.  He would have added: “Since there is no one there, no one will see her.  The Cross of Lorraine for its significant financial contribution. This photograph was offered by the National Memorial Committee to René Clavel, President of the National Union of deportees, internees and victims of war (UNDIVG),  as a thank you to participation funding for the memorial  (the first association of war victims to have sent a check ..