So on to the arc de triumphe where a giant French flag was flying in the middle. It could be seen as a glorious tribute to the French state or it could kind of remind one of those football field sized flags that fly over used car mega lots.
Vol K wanted to find out what the flag was all about and asked a cop if he spoke english.
And loudly... And I mean LOUDLY he says "Do you speak French? You come to France and you don't speak French?". But he then explained that the flag was to commemorate the end of the war - May 8th. My dates aren't great, but if that was the end of WW2 or the liberation of Paris then I'd like to know if they were asking "you come to France and you don't speak French" when we saved their butts from the Nazis.
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Dear Vol:
"Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day or VE Day) was May 8, 1945, the date when the Allies during the Second World War formally celebrated the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich."
Wikipedia has no information on whether the grateful French had a language requirement for liberators.
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