We have been celebrating, today, the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Paris.

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There is a touching letter from Poulenc to his friend and fellow-composer, Darius Milhaud, who had spent the 1940s in America, written soon after the liberation of Paris.

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The Paris daily Liberation plays down the economic significance of the Danish vote.

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Harold Snedden of the 28th Division marched through Paris on liberation day.

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Nearly a hundred years later, President Charles de Gaulle repaid U.S. help in the liberation of France by cultivating close ties with the Soviet Union and expelling NATO headquarters from Paris.

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But my concern is with the second of these pivotal dates, because Paris is awash this month with 1944, with liberation nostalgia.

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In an interview with Paris-based daily newspaper La Liberation published Friday, Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo, said that, while the company's French subsidiary would respect French law, he doubted that French courts could make a U.S. company block French users from accessing the content of its U.S. servers.

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