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aged Marshal appeared armistice armistice terms arrested Baudouin began Belgian bombed Brive Cabinet café called cars Clermont-Ferrand Communists concentration camps courage Croix de Feu crowded Crusaders Daladier and Bonnet defeat defender of Verdun deputies Ehrenburg's eleventh of June empty entered Paris ex-Servicemen exodus fall of Paris Fifth Column flaxmills fortifications French Frenchmen frontier Frossard Gamelin gendarmes German Army Gien Government of Bordeaux Gustav Hervé honour Ilya ILYA EHRENBURG July June 14th June 9th knew land Lannoy Laval Le Figaro leaflets left Paris Limoges lived Maginot Line Mandel Marshal Pétain Maurice Chevalier Meuse military governor Ministry mobilisation night Norway old women once open city Orléans papers Paris Soir Paris-Soir Parisians pogrom police Pomaret Popular Front Prefect Prouvost radio railway stations Reynaud roads ruins silent Socialists soldiers stockbrokers streets surrender tanks tenth of June town treachery Unoccupied Zone valiant defender Vichy Victory Weygand workers Ybarnegaray