Utter collapse, and great heroism.
The French government capitulates to the invading Nazis...
Meanwhile de Gaulle flees from Mérignac to London to fight on, a certain Portuguese consul, Aristide de Sousa Mendes, defies his government and writes visa after visa for those who fled, saving thousands of lives, and, Jean Moulin, another civil servant sets out on the road to resistance and death some years later in a railway carriage en route to prison camp.
In 2005 Alan, Pat, Gwilym & Catrin Davey moved from North East Wales to Bordeaux. Alan is a pastor and Pat was a nurse. Now we work with UFM worldwide. Read on! (If you'd like to know what took us to Bordeaux, then start with the archives from September 2004)
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only 40 years ago? that would have been 1970 surely?
Good point.
Thought "Seventy", typed "Forty" !
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